The personalization as democratic response to the demand for education addressed to school

Abstract

The school is called to take responsibility of the social demand for education, trying to read the great educational and cultural challenges of the present time. An essential part of the educational role of the school, in democratic societies, is to promote the active participation of citizens and educate to democracy. The personalization of teaching is an essential strategy for achieving this
goal, as eloquently put it in the international educational debate, both of authoritative organizations such as the OECD recommendations. The Italian pedagogical debate on the personalization is very articulate and has crossed several seasons. We can consider the modular customization within a curriculum reform, a daring personalization, which really focuses on each student, until you get to positions with many nuances that characterize the logic of our days. It would be interesting to carry out the surveys on how teachers interpret concretely the idea of personalization; some first results in this direction were taken in a research project of the University of Padua.