Dopo the students who made a voluntary mutatory scene at the orale of maturity, the letter of a Roman boy, Pietro Marconciniin which he asked Valditara of lower its high school vote from 83 to minimum, 60. To “symbolically refuse the evaluation that this school has attributed to me, And with it the system it represents ». While the minister replied by threatening a rule to reject those who decide to “boycott” the examination of the exam, The protest of the students, therefore, swelled.
Why did this generation of boys reject the rules that appeared very normal to the past? What has changed? What symbolizes the vote and his refusal? NAnd we talked to Daniele Novara, a pedagogist and author of the book Change the school you can (Bur Rizzoli)
Maturity 2025 and the boycott of the competitive school
“We are against the evaluations and the competition”, is the argument of the students who boycotted the exam by not taking it. But life is made of competition, it was Valditara’s answer. «The tests, the evaluations: we must get used to dealing with them. If one does not get used to tackling this school path he risks not knowing how to face the great challenges to which life calls ».
Pietro, in his letter of sharing the ex post boycott, replies: «To say that life is a competition and that you have to make the bones is a toxic vision. And the school should not reflect these problems of the company, it should contrast them ».
Among the many voices of experts and pedagogists who intervened in support of students’ protests in this high school 2025 there is also Daniele Novara.
Valditara: “The competition at school reflects that of life”. Or not?
“The school cannot be a race,” the pedagogist begins. “School is a learning community, not a competitive place. But the system of votes induces precisely this: Create a numerical scale where the comparison is absolutely inevitable. Thus an interference is created in learning processes, which induces poor self -esteem, Relational difficulties with the comrades and deficits of motivation. In the learning process, the only comparison is of each with himself: it is what I define the evolutionary evaluationwhich is very different from the purely competitive-comparative one. The evaluation must be compared to its starting points.
The rebellion of the sixty -eight and the protest of the boys against maturity in 2025
In a post on Facebook Novara writes, in reference to the first boy who did not discuss the oralman: “The times of the 70s returns to my mind, when it was the student movement that changed the school”. The comparison holds?
«Compared to the generation of 68, This is not a rebellious generation: it is a normally adolescent generation. But, like that, this too has opened a conflict with the adult world. Except that today’s guys struggle to stay in the conflict, considering that nobody will say good, you did well. Certainly not the representatives of this policy. Perhaps only us, non -kind pedagogists ».
From the vote to the evolutionary evaluation
What does it mean by evolutionary evaluation?
«It is a verification of what everyone has learned on the application level. And not simply giving a numerical vote on the basis of the cross In the right place or not, as is done in the unnecessary invalsi tests. But this school is wrong from many points of view, in addition to that of the vote. Like the frontal lesson, which still dominates, but – and the activist pedagogy of the early twentieth century had already understood it – it is now certain that Our brain learns not through listening, but through activation. The school It has not welcomed what have been acquisitions of pedagogy for many years. And the students, who are users, are denouncing what is wrong. They are saying: we are not satisfied. That the answer is: we all reject you, it is a very serious thing “.
The cover of Daniele Novara’s book, “Change the school you can”.
What are the problems of today’s school
Why did this generation of boys reject the rules that appeared very normal to the past?
«Meanwhile, it is not said that, only because previous generations accepted something, it is right to accept it. And then, I have to say, The school has worsened in recent years: The books, homework at home and the checks are very weighed down. And in the chair there is a generation of teachers Very little pedagogical, for lack of adequate professional internships and training, both in elementary and especially in the secondary. He focused on neuromedicalization of pupils, So at the first attention disorder they end up from a neuropsychiatrist. And he focused on digitization of the school, expensive but much less useful process of enhancing the pedagogical competence of teachers. Not to mention the ease with which today you can find one in the chair one who simply has a degree: that is not a teacher. Once upon a time there were teachers who updated by reading pedagogical magazines, today there are teachers influencers. A abyss ».
School autonomy and school as a company
«Another substantial problem, the selection on a administrative basis of school managers. Think in regulatory terms, they are perhaps skilled in the Management and bureaucratic management of a huge body but cannot adequately enhance school autonomy in a pedagogical sense. For example, in the first grade you can avoid giving the assessments, as long as the teaching college has agreed: this avoids unnecessary anxieties. But they do it in very few ».
Bad votes and multiple intelligence
If the comparative vote is not good, how can you study mathematics to those who really don’t want it (and would deserve a 4)?
«It must be considered that the sciences have also gone on: For the famous Multiple Intelligence theory of Howard Gardner, each pupil has specific intelligence. The mathematical one is a specific intelligence that refers to specific brain areas, the linguistic one is a specific intelligence, the musical one also, as well as the kinesthetic body. The school should undoubtedly consider it. AND If a child has difficulty, it will be evaluated on the basis of the starting point. I remember when, as a child, I was clearly out of tune and the music teachers supported out of tune to make his companions laugh. It is the same thing ».
The advice to teachers: dispensed “sense of success”
«Article 33 of the Constitution gives teachers the wider freedom of insecyment between all the constitutions of the democratic countries. Each teacher, Every day, he can decide which side he is adopting a methodology useful to support his pupils. For example, remembering that One of the basic learning is the sense of success: The more I think I worth it, the more I will do better. I am mortified most, worse I will go ».
The advice to students: ask for slowness and school trips
“First of all, Study together, as much as you can. We are social animals and learning is also social: cooperation and imitation can be very useful “.
«And then continue to invent new things to report what is wrong, you will always have on your side. For example, with the beginning of the school year, I was in you I would ask Immediately a school trip: To create the class and a positive environment, of socio -affective synchronization. For the same reason Ask slowness: the time needed to create the climateso that you can understand where each part. And because each one finds the motivation to live school as a positive experience. And happy ».
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