Publications

The experimental introduction of multilingualism, starting from 2014, in the schools of the Republic of San Marino has produced significant results on an educational level and at the same time has highlighted some critical issues in terms of linguistic competence, especially for those whose educational paths did not include the encounter with other languages.
The volume documents the path and the results of a research on multilingualism in schools – conducted by the Department of Human Sciences of the University of San Marino a decade after the start of the experiment – ​​which allowed to analyze its strengths and to identify its most problematic aspects, bringing out suggestions and proposals for the revision of the legislation.

The text collects data from a monitoring of the first three years of experimental implementation of the teaching of “Ethics, culture and society” (ECS), as an alternative to the teaching of the Catholic religion for students of the Republic of San Marino who do not avail themselves of it.
After having presented the cultural context in which – at an international level – the debate on religious teachings in public schools takes place, the volume illustrates the path that led to the introduction of ECS teaching and its profound pedagogical structure.
The second part of the volume is dedicated to the analysis of monitoring data: questionnaires, interviews and focus groups through which the opinions of teachers, students, parents and school principals were surveyed.
A generally positive picture emerges, in which the people interviewed express appreciation for this initiative and help to outline possible developments of the same.