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are the stories of those who live within the Italian education system the protagonists of "A cut to the future," the book by journalist Sebastiano Gulisano, analyzing the consequences of the reform Gelmini, through the voices and faces of students, deans, professors and researchers. We interviewed him at the presentation of the book, which was held Thursday to Feltrinelli di Catania.
The book opens with a reference to the Italian Constitution. In that sense, the reform of the Gelmini purple?
First, the decree from which the counter-part, because this one can not speak of reform, economic-financial and is not even signed by Gelmini, because it is a law of settlement of the education budget and therefore has nothing to do. In this decree shall be inserted an article that allows you to demolish the existing legislation and to make reforms through regulations that are not subject to parliamentary vote, but the opinion of the advisory committees. Moreover, the philosophy behind these regulations actually penalizes the least, the weakest. Article 3 of our Constitution entrusts to the Republic ", to remove obstacles to economic and social order among the citizens" to the school of Gelmini, and not only that of the last 15 years, but education makes an obstacle course. The school is the only element that can enable social mobility, but today is not so. The children of those who are not difficult to obtain a degree and graduate this year many have not been able to go to university. Then there is Article 34 that "able and deserving students, even without financial means, have the right to attain the highest levels of education." Gelmini is always talking about meritocracy, but in two years has cut 90% of the scholarships.
The protagonists of the book, rather than the numbers and statistics are the faces and stories of those who live in school and university. There is a story that has affected more than others and that is emblematic of the situation?
What I tried to do in my book is to tell the real impact of the Counter on the school system, university and research, through the voice of the educational experience it, namely students, teachers, researchers, trade unionists, which, inter alia, have not had the opportunity to have a say, because of the process by which a law is enacted into law in the financial 40 days without the possibility of parliamentary confrontation. They hit me all the stories. Perhaps the strongest is that of Fabio Passigli, the head teacher of elementary school in Palermo Brancaccio that tells what it is now working in a school of the border, in an area at risk as it was the Brancaccio neighborhood of more than Don Pino Puglisi that the brothers Graviano. I was also impressed that the stories of all the students I interviewed had in common two words: the future and abroad. Regardless of different personal experiences, was repeated in all the thought of not have a future in this country and having to look abroad.
How far the book has been accepted by experts? I had
positive feedback because, despite being an instant book, done in a month, makes it a good idea of \u200b\u200bwhat's happening in the Italian education system.
"A cut to the future" is just a snapshot of the consequences of the measures of the Gelmini. He thought about the possibility of a second volume that will tell the evolution?
I'm caressing the idea, actually. I continued to follow the events, relapses, the student movement and in part I have documented with photography, a passion that I cultivate a few years. I think it's important to tell what answers were chosen by students, teachers and researchers to counter the devastating effect of the counter after its approval, there is also the legal aspect to be analyzed, the many pronouncements of TAR, until the recent Constitutional Court ruling that repudiated the decisions of the minister and this majority Government.
During the presentation of the book one of the speakers, Professor Antonio Pioletti University of Catania, said that even before the university did not like Gelmini. You had to tap the fund to shake up teachers, researchers and Italian students and make them take to the streets?
I think the habit is not to challenge linked to an involution which involved our country in the last fifteen years. Provo, however, to put myself in the shoes of a student who goes to school, college, to study, train, graduate, and not to strike and challenge. The point is that in the last two years it was impossible not to, because the system that already did not like was literally butchered. For example, someone with my bachelor's degree was able to become a researcher and who suddenly finds himself as a result of the reform with a contract that is worth more, by law. That is, these people instead of entering the world of work, expel, by law. The reforms take years, they have moved out like the steamroller and also why I do not think it's over here, there are bound to be consequences in the courts.
First, the decree from which the counter-part, because this one can not speak of reform, economic-financial and is not even signed by Gelmini, because it is a law of settlement of the education budget and therefore has nothing to do. In this decree shall be inserted an article that allows you to demolish the existing legislation and to make reforms through regulations that are not subject to parliamentary vote, but the opinion of the advisory committees. Moreover, the philosophy behind these regulations actually penalizes the least, the weakest. Article 3 of our Constitution entrusts to the Republic ", to remove obstacles to economic and social order among the citizens" to the school of Gelmini, and not only that of the last 15 years, but education makes an obstacle course. The school is the only element that can enable social mobility, but today is not so. The children of those who are not difficult to obtain a degree and graduate this year many have not been able to go to university. Then there is Article 34 that "able and deserving students, even without financial means, have the right to attain the highest levels of education." Gelmini is always talking about meritocracy, but in two years has cut 90% of the scholarships.
The protagonists of the book, rather than the numbers and statistics are the faces and stories of those who live in school and university. There is a story that has affected more than others and that is emblematic of the situation?
What I tried to do in my book is to tell the real impact of the Counter on the school system, university and research, through the voice of the educational experience it, namely students, teachers, researchers, trade unionists, which, inter alia, have not had the opportunity to have a say, because of the process by which a law is enacted into law in the financial 40 days without the possibility of parliamentary confrontation. They hit me all the stories. Perhaps the strongest is that of Fabio Passigli, the head teacher of elementary school in Palermo Brancaccio that tells what it is now working in a school of the border, in an area at risk as it was the Brancaccio neighborhood of more than Don Pino Puglisi that the brothers Graviano. I was also impressed that the stories of all the students I interviewed had in common two words: the future and abroad. Regardless of different personal experiences, was repeated in all the thought of not have a future in this country and having to look abroad.
How far the book has been accepted by experts? I had
positive feedback because, despite being an instant book, done in a month, makes it a good idea of \u200b\u200bwhat's happening in the Italian education system.
"A cut to the future" is just a snapshot of the consequences of the measures of the Gelmini. He thought about the possibility of a second volume that will tell the evolution?
I'm caressing the idea, actually. I continued to follow the events, relapses, the student movement and in part I have documented with photography, a passion that I cultivate a few years. I think it's important to tell what answers were chosen by students, teachers and researchers to counter the devastating effect of the counter after its approval, there is also the legal aspect to be analyzed, the many pronouncements of TAR, until the recent Constitutional Court ruling that repudiated the decisions of the minister and this majority Government.
During the presentation of the book one of the speakers, Professor Antonio Pioletti University of Catania, said that even before the university did not like Gelmini. You had to tap the fund to shake up teachers, researchers and Italian students and make them take to the streets?
I think the habit is not to challenge linked to an involution which involved our country in the last fifteen years. Provo, however, to put myself in the shoes of a student who goes to school, college, to study, train, graduate, and not to strike and challenge. The point is that in the last two years it was impossible not to, because the system that already did not like was literally butchered. For example, someone with my bachelor's degree was able to become a researcher and who suddenly finds himself as a result of the reform with a contract that is worth more, by law. That is, these people instead of entering the world of work, expel, by law. The reforms take years, they have moved out like the steamroller and also why I do not think it's over here, there are bound to be consequences in the courts.
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