National Policy Legislation On Parental Involvement in Italian Schools

Italy has a strong tradition of centralisation and elitism in the way public education has been (and still is) organised and the way teachers have been socialised to maintain a neat social and symbolic distance, within the school life, between professionals and users. Notwithstanding this fact, several factors of change, over the decades, have pushed the public system of education to shift towards more democratic and inclusive management. Among others, the main changing factors can be identified in: decentralisation; co-management with users; and multiculturalism.