Internationalisation processes of small schools as tools for educational and organisational innovation

Abstract

In a recent Conference about the Development of the Rural Areas in Europe emerged that rural contexts need to face many challenges to innovate the schools and maintain high quality standards in education. Those schools which have sparse buildings with few students in small isolated towns need to begin/launch innovation process. The article will describe a small school that has been able to innovate its pedagogical approach taking part to international projects within Erasmus Plus action plan. The small school observed, based in the nearby of Piacenza, has been able to use different funding to realize an innovative learning approach based on the use of active pedagogies and a flexible learning environment. The experience of the single small school in Travo became a good practice with characteristic of transferability.