Intercultural education and construction of living together in a plural society: the results of an empiric research

This study is aimed at developing the theme of building living together relations in a multiethnic and multicultural society and of the contribution of intercultural education to promote social cohesion. Such themes are dealt with through the analysis of the scholastic experience of autochthonous and foreign preadolescents, particularly through the study of the scholastic dimension as a place where to form intercultural relations and where images of the world concerning the formation of citizenship and living together in a plural society are learnt. The study develops the results of a previous research carried out on a small sample (266 Italian students and 117 non Italian students). The results of the questionnaires administered to a larger and articulated sample are indeed analyzed (1314 students: 881 Italians, 317 immigrants and 116 children of mixed couples).