A participative learning context to understand educational poverty and oppression in contemporaneity

The paper presents the design of a participatory research about the perception of different forms of deprivation and subjugation in contemporaneity. The aim of the study is to build a significant learning context for future professional educators, who are enrolled at the first year in the Educational Sciences BA Degree at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milano - Italy). As theoretical background, the main references are linked to the topic of educational poverty and to the concept of oppression, theorized by Paulo Freire. The first is conceived as a multifaceted phenomenon that corresponds to a lack of opportunities in socio-cultural contexts affecting performances in formal education and more in general individual personal growth. The second is understood as a concept to outline the dynamic of power which informs relations between people and limits their personal aspirations. Methodological strategies to collect data will be: participate lectures, with a theoretical presentation of the mentioned matters and debates between professors and students; individual activations, to collect personal and professional episodes connected with the topics of the study; group works to prepare effective educational projects to defeat modern forms of poverty and oppression, especially throughout out-of- school educational experiences. With this research, the expectation is to prepare a proper learning context to visualize the different forms of deprivation and oppression in contemporaneity, as a significant learning step for future socio-pedagogical educators in Italy and abroad.