Here my contribution to the debate " Multiculture. Identity singular or plural? "which was held on Wednesday, September 15th in Liberia Melbookstore via Rizzoli in Bologna, where I interviewed Graziella Giovannini (Sociology of Education, University of Bologna and former Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the 'Observatory on intercultural the Ministry of Education)
An event organized by the Cultural House of Thoughts is always a joy, this year, then the House of Thoughts is twenty years old, having started its activities in 1990 and the program is increasingly large, with assistance from the most important intellectuals on the international scene. Edgar Morin, in his book The head well made claims that the culture in a democratic country must be made "in light of the sun." Morin founded in France the "days of science and culture." Here, Thoughts House of reminds me of these good examples: the think tank helps us to strengthen our concept of democracy.
speak this evening of multi-culture and inter-culture, now two are intrinsically linked to the sociological concept of identity. The identity of today must become more global, yet can not afford to forget the local aspects, our territories, and matters affecting them. We face a complex society because it is both large and small. Frantz Fanon speaks of politics close "to the beating heart of man." The democratic identity on a global scale to facilitate the search for a mild, non-aggressive policy. To become aware of differences and different cultures who are now living with us in democratic societies (or aspire to return to being such) Robert Dahl (who of contemporary democracy is one of the greatest theoretical) states that the primary challenge is an educational challenge and on which depends the future of living together and our own well being. For Martha Nussbaum education must be a positive process of liberal reform that teaches people (the model is to Lifelong Education, ie for the whole course of life) to get "each other in the guise of" , a tradition that raccorpa whole literature on "sympathy."
Often, it is true, there is an extraordinary split between the investigation and speculation in the everyday reality that it seems difficult to forge an identity and self-conscious of their values \u200b\u200band respect for others and at the same time democratic. Let me make a few comments on the political landscape that quota, clear, takes us away from this already difficult task. How do you educate children and young people to the plurality and diversity when the numbers relating to the education policies put in place by the Berlusconi government who is also lead to discomfort in a trance? Cut and punch hard on research, and indiscriminate cuts to support the integration of people with disabilities, lack of confirmation for a total number of staff - last count - of 170,000 jobs. Every job is a person. Every job in less means less in a service for students. At the same time exponentially regions struggling to keep up a welfare system, and this affects equally the regions of North and South, in spite of federalism unb process based on accountability. The regions now cut services training professional. Last year, many vocational training courses were free and now have to pay, whereas decreases significantly the income of Italian families and the young. The other night I was talking with the CISL union stressed that in this debacle as the students are able to escape only because teachers and professors are able and Italians "do not care about" the dark Gelmini-Tremonti. But you can not continue to leave the fate of the school in the hands of the initiative and to ' inventiveness of the individual.
How do you educate the multicultural and human rights of our children if they attend schools such as those Adro in which workers of the town at night are forced to march with the sun of the Alps baskets, IALU, roof and benches? The risk is just to training more and more closed in the confines of identity false and fabricated to , incapable of understanding the global and reduced to an increasingly narrow view of the world.
Yet I read an article by Amartya Sen entitled "Identity is not a destiny. We have a choice. " Sen has experienced famines and civil wars and has not lost hope. Perhaps we can make it.
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