From distance learning to reopening, the voices of the protagonists

 A virtual journey from North to South to collect the testimonies of teachers, parents and students. A collection of voices from the 'protagonists' to tell how the school world has dealt with the lockdown and what good practices have been put in place to deal with. The Coronavirus emergency. This is the volume "Didactics of emergency reopening. Voices from the school" by Francesco Alario, educator and member of the ministerial commission for the reform of European and international high schools, and Emanuele Caroppo, psychiatrist
and psychoanalyst of the Psychoanalytic Society, published by Castelvecchi. Enriched with authoritative contributions from the academic world and culture, the text recounts the lights and shadows of the DaD, risks and prospects for the future organization. The virtual journey of autotaxis in Italian schools began in mid-March, with the start of the lockdown, and ended at the end of June, with the state exams and the publication of the Guidelines for the opening of schools in September. "The suspension of educational activities is a unique and extraordinary event. There is no memory of similar precedents in recent history, not even during the Second World War" write the authors who virtually crossed Italy, interviewed school leaders and collected testimonies of teachers, parents, students and administrative and auxiliary staff. "From the voice of the protagonists of the training, we heard with how much attention, availability and professionalism the new distance teaching method was invented overnight in order not to interrupt the didactic path started and keep intact the red thread that unites the processes of socialization, integration, of equal educational opportunities and the protection of the right to study - they explain in the volume -. We asked whether, beyond good will, the new teaching method has caused, especially in some socially fragile environments, the interruption of the school path, if the lack of suitable technologies has prevented, and possibly for how long, from reaching all pupils, if in fact it has caused ascertained forms of dropout and early school leaving ".