Cittadinanza, educazione, diritti: progettare gli spazi democratici e partecipativi. Il progetto #ShareEU / Citizenship, Education, Rights: designing democratic and participatory spaces. The #ShareEU Project

Citizenship and citizenship education are dimensions today at the core of the national and international debate for the value they have within formation, as well as crucial instruments for building a future european common responsibility. Beginning with the reconstruction of the socio-political and cultural context through a supra-national reflection about the educational and social activities related to the european citizenship in the post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian societies, this volume focuses on the analysis of the role played by the civic competencies within the instructional processes. These competencies have in fact become over time essential elements of training at all levels, confronting the teachers with cultural and civic challenges that can be considered as actual emergencies. Therefore, it appears more and more urgent ensuring that they are acquired by the whole population (children, young people and adults), especially at a moment when new problems put in crisis the democracy, combining with the previous ones such as inequalities, educational poverty, equality etc., that are progressively redesigning new forms of social and cultural exclusion. These last, coupled with new problems linked to th globalization, require a deep reflexion about the role played by by the civic training and its characteristics, particularly in respect of the territorial spaces, the educational contexts and the practices in which democracy is built. In the face of the nationalist, undemocratic and antiEuropean constantly re-emerging throughout Europe and at a time when frequent signs of estrangement from politics and democratic participation can be observed, it appears ever more necessary to understand their reasons and to carry out a critical examination about the ability of education to trans/form the citizen in order to contain extremist drifts of any kind. In this direction the volume, in addition to reconstructing an interpretative context of citizenship and citizenship education, document some research activities carried out within the European project #ShareEU – Shaping of the European Citizenship in the Post-Totalitarian Socities. Reflections after 15 Years of EU Enlargement – focused on the comprehension of the democratic social processes in place in the European Union. It describes some of the results reached by the Italian team of the University of L’Aquila, project’s partner, about the idea of citizenship as a founding component of the “citizen” profile and the nature of the objectives, contents and strategies of an education to citizenship capable to promote in Italy, at all levels of education, the “civic wellbeing”. Other partners in the project are the Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie (Poland), Università dell’Aquila (Italy), Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici (Slovak Republic), Swietokrzyskie Centrum Doskonalenia Nauczycieli w Kielcach (Poland) e Powiat kielecki (Poland).