Civic education and educational co-responsibility in Provincial Centres for Adult Education: teachers' lived experiences

Abstract

This article seeks to present exploratory research into courses of action developed by teachers at Provincial Centres for Adult Education (CPIA), detailing the care they take, in coordination and collaboration with all the relevant authority figures including voluntary legal guardians, in setting out measures that encourage educational co-responsibility to help meet the educational needs of unaccompanied teenage migrants in a suitable way. The fundamental idea of the research is to demonstrate the role of schools as educating communities, in the problematic support paths of unaccompanied minor migrants; the whole process takes place in close collaboration with educational agencies within communities of practice, to promote an idea of inclusive citizenship. The survey, which follows the phenomenological method, presents the results of an initial exploratory study using semi-structured interviews, which are helpful in revealing the views and new meanings that educational co-responsibility is assuming at the CPIAs of Palermo, Agrigento and Catania.