Riflettere sulla pratica. Un esempio di ricerca sul campo attorno alla povertà educativa

Article exposes the first findings derived from an explorative study on the term “educational poverty”. It highlights the theoretical assumptions of that and considers the outcomes of a holistic case study about a project for children, in between 0 and 6 years, and their families. The contribution pays specific attention to data from some semi-structured interviews. They shape two pedagogical descriptions for this topic: the first concerns adult-children relationship; the second is based in the school context. The research aims to enhance social workers’ voice and give them reflexive tools to build context-sensitive definitions of educational poverty, representing the complexities of our contemporaneity and adding sense to the multidimensional feature of poverty.