Conference
Teaching Respect – Homophobia in Schools
With the Patronage
of the Emilia Romagna Region, of the Municipality of Bologna and of the Municipality of Casalecchio
Monday, May 5, 2008 – 10:00 a.m.
Casalecchio House of Knowledge – Via Porrettana 360, Casalecchio di Reno (BO)
On Monday 5 May starting at 10:00, at the Casa della Conoscenza in Casalecchio, the Conference “Let's educate to respect – Homophobia at school” will be held, promoted by the Bologna Pride Committee, curated by’School Area of the Wellbeing Sector of the Cassero in collaboration with the Municipality of Casalecchio.
The conference, open to all, aims to raise awareness among teachers, students and anyone working in an educational context, on need to build a welcoming and inclusive school environment also for homosexual adolescents and on the need to educate the entire school community to overcoming prejudices and discriminatory or bullying attitudes based on homophobia.
The sociologist opens the conference Raffaele Lelleri which will provide the most important data from the survey on the perception of homophobic bullying in some schools in Bologna and Modena, collected through research by the European Schoolmates Project. The intervention will take place immediately afterwards. Luca Pietrantoni, a psychologist who will analyze the psychosocial roots and intervention strategies for reducing homophobia in educational contexts.
Gabriele Prati, a psychologist, will talk about his experience in adult training for the Tuscany Region and will present the new website: www.educarealrispetto.org.
The sociologist Elena Buccoliero will explore the topic of female bullying. Finally, the student will speak Gianlorenzo Spisso which will present the Provincial Student Council's project against bullying at school, currently being implemented thanks to the laboratory interventions of the Cassero School Project.
He will be present Flavia Madaschi, representative of AGEDO (Association of Parents, Relatives, Friends of Homosexual People) who will share her experience as a mother and activist. The conference is moderated by Matthew Martelli, responsible for the Cassero School Project.
Admission is free and will end around lunchtime.
Participants will be given folders containing the abstracts of the presentations and the biographies of the participants.
For information: 347.3060852
Speakers at the Conference:
Simone Gamberini – Mayor of the Municipality of Casalecchio
Milli Virgil – Councilor for Schools of the Municipality of Bologna
Paolo Rebaudengo – Councillor for Schools, Province of Bologna
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Raffaele Lelleri, sociologist. He works on immigration and sexual minorities, both for public and local authorities and for private social organizations. Main topics of interest: diversity, civil and citizenship rights, health and well-being, social research applied to minorities (www.lelleri.it). Within the European Schoolmates project, he scientifically established and coordinated the transnational social research (Italy, Spain, Poland and Austria) on homophobic bullying in schools. On the issues of diversity, he has dealt, among other things, with: homosexuality and disability (2007), thanks to the survey “Abili di cuore. Homo-disabilità: quale rapporto tra homosessualità e disabili?” (2007), also carried out with the contribution of the Centro Documentazione Handicap of Bologna. The final report is available here: www.lelleri.it/report/abilidicuore.pdf. He has studied the topic of "second generations" (2005) within the Provincial Observatory of Immigration, of which he is the director. The dossier "Non-Immigrant Foreigners. Children of Immigrants. Second Generations in the Province of Bologna" is available here: www.provincia.bologna.it/immigrazione/pdf/3DossierFiglidegliImmigrati.pdf . He also deals with health and sexual minorities in Italy (2005), thanks to the survey "Modi Di", carried out thanks to funding from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. The complete archive of the project is available here: www.modidi.net
Luca Pietrantoni, a senior researcher in social psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Bologna. He is a member of the board of the Italian Society of Health Psychology (SIPSA) and vice president of the Italian Center for Sexology (CIS). He teaches Social Health Psychology at the School of Specialization in Health Psychology at the University of Bologna and Emergency Psychology in the Master's Degree Program in Clinical and Community Psychology. He has been involved in planning and training on health and sexual orientation issues for over 10 years.
Gabriele Prati, psychologist at the University of Bologna. Psychologist, PhD student in social psychology at the Department of Educational Sciences – University of Bologna. Full member of the Italian Center for Sexology. Master's degree in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of Bologna. Degree in Behavioral and Social Relations Sciences from the University of Bologna. He has worked in adult education for the Tuscany Region.
Elena Buccoliero, a sociologist, has worked since 1992 at Promeco, a public service founded in Ferrara by the Municipality, the Local Health Authority, the Province, and the Provincial School Office to work with schools to prevent youth hardship. Within Promeco, she has been working on bullying since 1995 in most secondary schools in the province, conducting research, teacher and parent training, direct interventions in classrooms, and developing teaching materials. Currently, among other things, she oversees Promeco's participation in a European research project on cyberbullying among adolescents coordinated by the Department of Psychology at the University of Bologna. Since 2005, she has participated in several national conferences and seminars, conducts training on bullying in several Italian cities, and contributes to online and print journals on educational topics.
Since February 2007, she has been a member of the national commission "Bullying at School" established by the Ministry of Education. Since January 2008, she has been an honorary juvenile judge at the Juvenile Court of Bologna. She is a member of the Nonviolent Movement and a regular contributor to the Movement's magazine, "Azione Nonviolenta." She maintains a blog about bullying on the website of the local newspaper La Nuova Ferrara: http://lanuovaferrara.repubblica.it/
Gian Lorenzo Spisso A final-year student at the Galvani High School in Bologna, he deals with school issues within the Provincial Student Council.
Flavia Madaschi, head of AGEDO Bologna and mother of a gay boy.
Matthew Martelli, head of the Cassero School Project and coordinator of the European Schoolmates Project for the prevention and fight against bullying in schools. Since 2002, he has developed the content and methodologies of the educational programs he offers in Bologna's secondary schools. He leads training workshops for adult school staff on the topics of stereotypes, otherness, identity, and bullying. He is the national contact for the training of school staff for Arcigay. He was a certified Scout Leader in AGESCI. He has extensive volunteer experience in various social fields.
