The Sense of Initiative and Entrepreneurship. The Formation of an Intercultural Competence in Pre-adolescents

Abstract

Among the eight key competences in Europe, the “sense of initiative and
entrepreneurship” is the least aimed at the secondary school level and the
one young Italians develop much less than their immigrant peers.
Our research involves two classes of pre-adolescent students, with a good
number of immigrants, which we have divided into working groups. They
were asked to face reality, authentic tasks and show ability to deal with real
problem solving by adopting cooperative methodologies. The key hypothesis
is that intercultural cooperative learning tasks may improve and increase
the processes relevant to the six indicators of competence (idea-action
translation, creativity, innovation, risk taking, planning, project management)
both for Italian students and non-Italian speakers.