Resist! Italian Teachers and Students in the Face of Neoiberalism in Education.

In the last twenty years, Italy’s school system has undergone reforms and legislative changes that can largely be traced back to neoliberalism. The political debate and in part also the cultural one looked at education in a new light, giving public opinion a new narrative on education, based on individual merit and competition between schools. Listening to the voices of teachers and students means bringing to light the aspirations, widely shared and consolidated, of the progressive pedagogy and emancipation that is currently on the fringes of government action and the prevailing culture. Between active resistance and indifference, we are discovering an educational community that wants to be heard and included in the decisions that necessarily involve it.