OGGI A SCUOLA CI VAI TU

OGGI A SCUOLA CI VAI TU: CHILDREN TEACH EMPATHY, INTERDEPENDENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE

The ASIA Onlus initiative within Distinti ma non distanti, the Global Citizenship education project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.

Around 1000 children involved in Rome, Naples and Milan together with the partners of the initiative Explora, the children's museum of Rome, the Science Museum of Naples and the Ad Artem association of Milan.

Helping adults to behave as adults, to break down prejudice and to get closer to diversity. Passing on to them the value of empathy (to put oneself in the other's shoes), of interdependence (to rediscover cooperation and exchange), and of non-violence (to get closer to comparison).

This is the aim of “Oggi a scuola ci vai tu”, a project involving around 1000 children throughout Italy, called to teach their own parents the universal values of empathy, interdependence and non-violence.

Three cities, three values to explore and three partners alongside ASIA Onlus in this path of education and awareness that is part of Distinti ma non distanti the Global Citizenship education project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.

In Rome the children learn and teach empathy. In the Alberto Manzi and I.C. Guicciardini primary schools a team of trainers of Explora, the children's museum of Rome started a cycle of meetings with 260 young students, who are preparing for a special day with the whole family at the museum (scheduled in May), in which they will teach their parents how to listen to and observe the emotions of others, to receive and to give, to take the side of the other.

The same happens in Naples, in the prestigious setting of the Science Museum, where 500 students of the Istituto comprensivo Giovani XIII Aliotta will be able to explore the concept of interdependence through science, observing and studying the behaviour of cooperation and exchange that takes place in a very special social group, that of ants, guests of the permanent exhibition Insetti & Co.

In Milan the splendid setting of the Museo del Novecento offers our partners of the Ad Artem association the possibility of meeting 230 students of the Dante Alighieri I.C. Rinnovata Pizzigoni, Scuola primaria Renzo Pezzani, Istituto Comprensivo 5 Giornate and Scuola Primaria Balilla Paganelli schools in a truly unusual path under the sign of art: the study of paintings and artworks as metaphors of the values at the basis of the concept of non-violence: collaboration (Il Quarto Stato by Giuseppe Pellizza Da Volpedo), integration (Composizione con scatola di fiammiferi by Ardengo Soffici), hospitality (Il figliol prodico by Giorgio De Chirico), etc.

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