REAL lab

REAL lab deals with the promotion and dissemination of the activities and projects of anthropology of education and disability carried out within the Department of History, Culture and Civilization (DISCI). On the website you will find proposals for training actions, learning experiences, practices and research that involve and are directed both to interlocutors inside the Academy and to people from outside the University.

The website

On REAL lab you can find very different contents in written, visual or multimedia form. The projects are our business card, they make clear the theoretical assumptions and working methods we adopt in the field.

To collaborate on projects already in progress, you can contact us directly at our email address (to find out more click here). Each initiative is generated by a preliminary study of the context and the use of different methodological approaches and tools both in teaching and research.

If you are interested in a specific topic, the resources section and our area bibliography are at your disposal. Finally, we advise you not to miss the events in evidence, which can be consulted from our calendar.

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Research

A project is a continuous beginning, born from the desire to respond to a why and a how. Even when it may seem finished, it remains open to subsequent transformations. A project is a constant challenge to question everything again, in order to find a different question rather than an answer.

Research is the pivot of the REAL lab, around which all the other sections revolve, including broader initiatives such as Sguardi Oltre or Finestre sul Mondo.

This area includes completed projects that you can freely consult here on the site and those still in progress, and are all open to possible new collaborations.

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Education

 

Why relegate education only to the school environment?

Education is a complex and varied process that involves a multiplicity of different approaches and can take place in environments far removed from the classrooms and workshops of the formal education worlds.

Most of the workshops hosted on our platform, as well as the events in the foreground, are an expression of an interdisciplinary approach. We believe, in fact, that the sharing of knowledge and experiences is the foundation of any innovation and conscious educational action.

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Anthropology

 

Anthropology is the point of view that in REAL lab we have chosen to adopt to look at the world around us.

Cultural anthropology offers us the possibility to investigate different points of view of the world. Other perspectives open us to a multitude of horizons of meaning and infinite creative possibilities, giving us the opportunity to rethink our categories with a critical spirit. Anthropological practice is a real training to put oneself in the shoes of others and for this reason it makes small and adult people reflect; it allows us to question the implicit assumptions within the contexts in which we operate, so that we can analyze the situation from a different perspective. Inside and outside the Academy, the discipline maintains a constant dialogue with the realities it approaches, often reaching original and unexpected results

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Learning

 

Organisations are increasingly understood as learning communities. While it is true that knowledge resides in people, it is equally true that it flows through professional communities and, again through them, cultural change spreads.

The exercise of each profession today finds itself having to respond to the challenges of our time in ever-changing ways and in different contexts, characterized by a high degree of uncertainty and instability. Moreover, everyone's knowledge and skills need constant maintenance, both as an adaptation to continuous changes and as a deepening of contents and knowledge already experimented and therefore considered completed and acquired.

For this reason, Gregory Bateson's well-known expression learning to learn, far from being a simple play on words, proves to be a pivotal principle in the exercise of our educational activities, which aim to shed light on aspects that are normally little considered in everyday life, such as active listening and the ability to decentralize, making those who take part discover skills that they did not think they had and could acquire.