During and after the Covid-19 emergency, the Italian university has experienced an acceleration of changes that have enhanced its central function in the learnfare of young students, poised between anxiety-inducing risks, unemployment and underemployment, and dissatisfaction in social life. In fact, during the lockdown, the university continued to represent a place in everyday life from which to draw indispensable resources for growth. The disruption of didactics, that is, the digitisation of all forms of academic transmission, constituted both an experiential and theoretical-structural watershed between the university of relationships (before) and the university of performance. The essay aims to analyse whether and how the new didactic mission of the university in the post-Covid era has been able, after the emergent and then full-scale adaptations, to effectively fulfil its dual role, as a pillar of competence/life skills development and as an agent of learnfare for inequality reduction and a channel for democratic participation. Academic teaching is analysed with reference to: digitisation, the introduction of quality assessment mechanisms and internationalisation. The thesis is that these processes of change have increasingly prompted changes in didactics, but not always from the perspective of the welfare of the youth population and student engagement. In conclusion, some lessons are drawn from Covid-19. it was an educational and social experiment for Italy, which was lagging behind in terms of ITC and digital skills, and it made visible the need to change, in teaching, the foundations of the didactic model unfortunately internalised by most academics based on one-sidedness, uniformity, and time-saving.
Durante e dopo l’emergenza Covid-19 l’Università italiana ha vissuto un’accelerazione di cambiamenti che hanno esaltato la sua funzione centrale nel learnfare favore dei giovani studenti, in bilico tra rischi ansiogeni, inoccupazione e sottoccupazione, e insoddisfazione nella vita sociale. Di fatto, durante il lockdown l’università ha continuato a rappresentare un luogo della quotidianità da cui trarre risorse indispensabili alla crescita. Lo stravolgimento della didattica, cioè la digitalizzazione di tutte le forme di trasmissione accademica, ha costituito uno spartiacque sia esperienziale sia teorico-strutturale, tra l’università delle relazioni (prima) e l’università delle prestazioni. Il saggio ha l’obiettivo di analizzare se e come la nuova mission didattica dell’università nell’era post-Covid è stata in grado, dopo gli adattamenti emergenziali e poi a regime, di svolgere efficacemente il suo duplice ruolo, come pilastro dello sviluppo di competenze/life skills e come agente di learnfare per la riduzione delle disuguaglianze e canale di partecipazione democratica. Si analizza la didattica accademica con riferimento a: la digitalizzazione, l’introduzione dei meccanismi di valutazione della qualità e l’internazionalizzazione. La tesi è che tali processi di mutamento hanno sempre più spinto a cambiare la didattica, ma non sempre nella prospettiva del benessere della popolazione giovanile e dell’engagement degli studenti. In conclusione si traggono alcune lezioni dal Covid-19: si è trattato di un esperimento educativo e sociale per l’Italia che era in ritardo sul piano delle ITC e delle digital skills e si è resa visibile la necessità di modificare, nella didattica, le fondamenta del modello cattedratico purtroppo interiorizzate dalla gran parte degli accademici basato su unilateralità, uniformità, risparmio di tempo.
Colombo, M., La Mission didattica dell’Università italiana nell’era post COVID-19, in Casavecchia, A., Pitzalis, M., Poliandri, D. (ed.), L’università dall’autonomia all’eteronomia? Come riequilibrare un percorso critico, RomaTrE-Press, ROMA -- ITA 2025: <<SOCIOLOGIA E SERVIZIO SOCIALE>>, 12 17- 35 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/313193]
La Mission didattica dell’Università italiana nell’era post COVID-19
Colombo, Maddalena
2025
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During and after the Covid-19 emergency, the Italian university has experienced an acceleration of changes that have enhanced its central function in the learnfare of young students, poised between anxiety-inducing risks, unemployment and underemployment, and dissatisfaction in social life. In fact, during the lockdown, the university continued to represent a place in everyday life from which to draw indispensable resources for growth. The disruption of didactics, that is, the digitisation of all forms of academic transmission, constituted both an experiential and theoretical-structural watershed between the university of relationships (before) and the university of performance. The essay aims to analyse whether and how the new didactic mission of the university in the post-Covid era has been able, after the emergent and then full-scale adaptations, to effectively fulfil its dual role, as a pillar of competence/life skills development and as an agent of learnfare for inequality reduction and a channel for democratic participation. Academic teaching is analysed with reference to: digitisation, the introduction of quality assessment mechanisms and internationalisation. The thesis is that these processes of change have increasingly prompted changes in didactics, but not always from the perspective of the welfare of the youth population and student engagement. In conclusion, some lessons are drawn from Covid-19. it was an educational and social experiment for Italy, which was lagging behind in terms of ITC and digital skills, and it made visible the need to change, in teaching, the foundations of the didactic model unfortunately internalised by most academics based on one-sidedness, uniformity, and time-saving.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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