Lorenzo Milani, The School of Barbiana and the Struggle for Social Justice

About Alessio SurianFederico BatiniPeter Mayo

Federico Batini is a researcher at the University of Perugia. Founder and director of a training and guidance agency Pratika (www.pratika.net) and the centre of ideas and cultural productions Nausika (www.narrazioni.it) he is also a senior partner of Thélème (www.theleme.it). He has been dealing with stories and narratives in many formats for the past twenty years. He is working on a project of books and audio books of fairy tales and fables rewritten and adapted in collaboration with modern writers and experts. He has written plays and short stories edited anthologies and written lyrics. He has devised a method of guidance through story telling called narrative guidance (Per un orientamento narrative 2000) and has published articles books and other materials about this method. His most recent publications include L'orientamento narrativo a scuola. Lavorare sulle competenze per lorientamento dalla scuola dellinfanzia alleducazione degli adulti (2008); Mettere in circolo. Una ricerca sui circoli di studio: Dalla pratica al metodo (2008); Competenze e diritto allapprendimento (co-edited with A. Surian 2008); LIsola sconosciuta. Un progetto di orientamento narrativo: Metodi e risultati Storientando: Un progetto e una ricerca con lorientamento narrativo (with A. Surian 2008); Storie futuro e controllo (ed. 2011); Storie e orientamento. Percorsi per l'orientamento narrativo di gruppo (2011) Orientare per non disperdere: le storie siamo noi; Quando i figli scelgono (2011); Comprendere le differenze; Verso una pedagogia dell'identità sessuale (2011); Storie che crescono (2011). Peter Mayo is Professor in the Department of Education Studies Faculty of Education University of Malta. His many books include Gramsci Freire and Adult Education (1999) subsequently published in translation in six languages; Liberating Praxis (2004) which won an AESA Critics Choice Award in 2005; Learning and Social Difference (with C. Borg 2006); Adult Education in Malta (2007); Public Intellectuals Radical Democracy and Social Change: A Book of Interviews (with C. Borg Peter Lang 2007); Learning with Adults: A Critical Pedagogical Introduction (with L. English 2007) winner of the 2014 C. Houle Award for outstanding literature in adult education; Politics of Indignation (2012); and Echoes from Freire for a Critically Engaged Pedagogy (2014). He was 2011 winner of the CIES Higher Ed SIG award for best paper in comparative/international Higher Ed. He co-edits Palgrave Macmillans book series on postcolonial studies in Education and edits the Sense book series on International Issues in Adult Education. He is co-editor of the refereed journal Postcolonial Directions in Education. Alessio Surian is researcher at the University of Padova where he teaches Transformative Learning. He is co-coordinator of the Special Interest Group on Teaching and Learning in Culturally Diverse Settings of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction and a member of the executive committee of the World Education Forum. He is the author of several studies on participatory methodologies collaborative learning and intercultural communication including «Mr. Palomar and Youth 2.0: Beyond the Faustian Bargain» (Italian Journal of Sociology of Education 2014); «Transformative Learning and Youth Agency within Present and Future Urban Scenarios» (Italian Journal of Sociology of Education 3 147183 2011); Making a Difference: Learning That Matters (ed.) Diversity Youth Forum Strasbourg 2007; and Traveling Cultural Diversity (ed.) British CouncilSALTO London 2005.