Progettazione, narrazione e analisi di pratiche didattiche di genere nel primo ciclo dell'istruzione

The research contribution is part of the PRIN “Success training, inclusion and social cohesion: innovative strategies, ICT and valuation models”, coordinated by G. Domenici at national level, which ended on 28th February 2016. Within the Research unit of Palermo different assumptions have been made, including that of school failure in the first cycle which would be diminished if teachers had implemented a more careful teaching to different ways of learning of male and female pupils. Intervention refers to the process of construction, implementation, narration and analysis of thirty gender teaching practices. The first research goal has been that of producing and validating tools to provide teachers with the reconstruction of their didactic memory, of self-telling, of explaining the “tacit” knowledge and verbalizing their beliefs about the value of gender differences in teaching. Analyzing the quality of the teaching practice that meets the different needs of male & female students, according to the principles of educational personalization, was the second goal. At the end of the two-year investigation, with the coaching of researchers, thirty Sicilian primary school teachers and fifteen secondary school teachers have succeeded in building, implementing and narrating those educational activities that enhance the specificity of male and female pupils. All educational practices realized were then analyzed by the researchers with the involvement of the teachers joining in the research.