The document discusses strategies for promoting intercultural integration in Italian schools. It outlines 10 main areas of intervention, including welcoming immigrant students and placing them in age-appropriate classes, teaching Italian language skills, incorporating multilingualism, fostering relationships between immigrant families and the school, and combating discrimination. The roles of teachers, headteachers, and the community in creating a culturally diverse and socially cohesive learning environment are also addressed. Several Italian laws concerning intercultural education and the integration of immigrant students are briefly mentioned.

1. INTERCULTURAL INTEGRATION
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2. INTERCULTURAL INTEGRATION
Italian school
It li s h l promotes dialogue and
m t s di l d
confrontation among different
cultures.
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Not just means adopting integration
strategies for migrated students but
taking diversity as an opportunity to
open the whole system to all
differences (ethnic religions
(ethnic, religions,
cultural, social)
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3. MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION
1. Actions for integration
g access to rights
g
2. Actions for intercultural relationship
g
integration to natives
3. Resources organization of the process
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4. INTEGRATION STRATEGIES
N E N E E
Welcoming students to school and
placing them in classes according to
1) Welcome step:
) p their age. Classes with immigrant
predominance are avoided in order to ge
better integration.
Necessary for integration. You
2) Italian language can’t feel part of a community if
p y
learning: you don’t understand or you aren’t
understood.
3) Multilingualism:
g Including the languages spoken by
the largest ethnic minorities
minorities.
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5. - Choice of the school for their
4) Relationship to children
immigrant
i i t - Their involvement in the welcome
families under step
three
dimensions - Their active participation in school
activities
5) Relationship Helping the integration process and
p g g p
inside/outside getting all students to build up
school: their knowledge (cohoperativw
learning)
l rnin )
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6. 6) Actions againts Defending human rights
discrimination and (education, equal opportunities
prejudices: in life)
7) Intercultural Aiming to openness, equality
openness equality,
dimension of social cohesion.
citizenship
8) Autonomy and School integration is part of
network of schools, integration as a whole. School and
community and
i d society work together to make
i k h k
territory immigrants feel to belong to the
community.
community
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7. Success in intercultural
integration depends on leadership’s
leadership s
ability to promote attitudes based
9) The role of
on openness and collective
p
headteachers
responsability towards themes
such as citizenship and social
integration.
i i
Cultural diversity requires
C lt l di it i
10) The role of teachers training to “read” the
teachers and general school context under the
staff banner of diversity.
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8. ITALIAN LAWS
concernig intercultural education and
immigrant student integration
g g
Placement of migrated students in
C.M. 8/9/1989n.301
compulsory school classes
classes.
Compulsory schooling and migrated students.
C.M.22/7/1990n.205
Intercultural education.
Racism and atisemitisn today: the
CNPI 24/3/1993
role of school
C.M.
C M 2/3/1994 n 73
n°73 Intercultural dialogue
Act 40 6/3/1998 The formative value of linguistic and
cultural differences
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9. Funds given to the schools with more than
C.M. 155 2001
10% of mi
f migrated st d ts
t d students
Courses for migrated students and their
C.M. 160/2001
families.
families
C.M. 24 1/3/2006 Guideline to integration of migrated
students
st d ts
Particular attention to migrated students in
C.M.
C M 28 15/3/2007 the final examination because of the little
h fi l i i b f h li l
knowledge of Italian language they have
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