Scuola elementare di Melano: Dall’acqua ai fossili

This Toolkit is the product of the research project entitled Pedagogia della Cittadinanza e Formazione degli Insegnanti: un’alleanza tra Scuola e Territorio (Citizenship Pedagogy and Teacher Education: an alliance between School and Territory) - STEP, which was funded by the European Union in 2015. The project partners were the University of Milano-Bicocca (primary partner), the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, and the universities of Aix- Marseille, Seville, and Locarno. The project faced two key challenges: on the one hand, creating teaching programmes able to systematically integrate the topic of Social Harmony, Heritage and Sustainability Education into pre-school nursery and primary schools in the various countries involved, following a long and collaborative research process; on the other hand, realising these programmes with the teachers involved in the research project itself, with a design approach shared with university researchers and local stakeholders. This complex research project gave rise to this Toolkit, which aims to be a tool for teachers to plan integrated programmes that involve Social Harmony, Heritage and Sustainability Education following the general strategy of the project derived from the Teacher professional development research. The first step of Teacher professional development research is to come up with good questions. For this reason, below are some of the initial questions used to start personal reflection.