Transformative Education (TE) offers a critical lens for rethinking education in the context of postdigital societies confronted with accelerated change and an enduring permacrisis. It aims to support the development of those knowledge, attitudes and…
This panel explores dialogic teaching as a pedagogical and curricular orientation capable of sustaining democratic education, understood not as ideological positioning but as daily practice of participation, shared meaning-making, and collective inquiry within educational communities.…
Childhood represents the critical foundation upon which democratic participation and social responsibility are built. In contemporary digital societies, children encounter algorithmic systems, social media platforms, and educational technologies that profoundly shape their cognitive development and…
The panel aims to explore Service Learning (SL) as an integrated operational model of intervention, capable of transforming learning spaces – particularly in higher education – into laboratories of democracy, where teaching, research, and the…
The panel explores the community hub as an outcome of evolutionary models of future schooling (Poli, 2024) towards ecological, networked, and democratic configurations. The hub is discussed as a innovative scenario (OECD, 2020) that integrates…
This panel invites contributions exploring the use of Challenge-Based Learning (Università di Trento, 2024) as an innovative pedagogical methodology to cultivate a responsible and sustainable citizenship. In line with the goal of transforming school and…
Young people criticise schools (and higher education institutions) for the lack of opportunities to have a voice, be listened to and be acknowledged as agentic and owners of power. In these same contexts, youth often…
It is now widely acknowledged that educational systems play a crucial role in preparing young people to become active, responsible, and engaged citizens in democratic societies (see European Commission JRC 2020). This role becomes even…
In recent years, studies on reading and the equitable effects of reading and reading aloud in particular have strongly highlighted a paradigm we propose to define as “dialogical-transformative.” This approach places particular emphasis on the…
In a society marked by digital transformation, geopolitical instability and widening inequalities, contemporary learning environments face increasing demands. Schools are expected to promote students’ motivation, capability and resources for lifelong learning, preparing them to navigate…