Ridefinire il ruolo dell’insegnante in relazione alla povertà educativa

In last years, educational poverty, in Italy, has significantly involved the new generations. The phenomenon shows its complexity, in a play of lights and shadows, starting from the school pathways of young people, and involving family, through its central role in the young’s motivation process, and teacher, significant adult in the dynamics of the training process. In the essay we will start from the analysis of the national situation of education levels and school drop-out and we will analyse the possible causes of the phenomenon. Finally, we will reflect on the need to redefine the role of the teacher, starting from the analysis of his marginalization, in order to put him at the centre of the training processes as a promoter of processes of rapprochement of young people to education.