ALL YOU CAN LEARN: INCREASING LEARNERS' DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY THROUGH SELECTIVE EDUCATION EXPERIENCES WITH HIGHLY VULNERABLE GROUPS AMONG THE FORCIBLY DISPLACED. PILOT EXPERIENCE IN PALERMO, ITALY

This Conference paper seeks to answer a question resulting from literature, policy documents review and interviews carried out within the project: What are the most effective educational inclusion strategies for increasing participation and continuity in education among highly vulnerable displaced placed people currently living in the region of Sicily?

The design of the selective-learning TAIS, i.e. the training opportunity “ALL you can LEARN”, proposes a participatory practice in education, shifting from an “induced” training offer approach (i.e. a dominating and top-down way to organise education for FDPs) to a “selective” approach aimed at developing a training offer in which several optional modules are offered so that participants can choose contents that are attractive for them.

The ultimate aim is to increase learners’ decision-making capacity (in this specific case, Forcibly Displaced Women living and/or exposed to highly vulnerable situations and conditions, victims of human trafficking currently living in Sicily, originally from Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Comoros and Tunisia) as they are to be intended as “co-experts” of the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) based inclusion strategy, thus having the opportunity to decide and co-design their learning experience according to a set of individual variables (interests and aspirations, level of studies and previously attended programmes, language knowledge, logistics and time availability, etc.).