MINORI E LEGALITA’. UNA ESPERIENZA DI PREVENZIONE PRIMARIA

OBJECTIVES: Today the school is no more designed as an istitution of information and sociality, but as a formative agency, also with the help of new didactic technologies like new media and computer science. Radiokreattiva project for the education to legality act in this assumption. The purpose of this research work is test which changes are found in students that have done the project, such as adherence at social rules and perception of istitutions and police. METHODOLOGY: In scolastic year 2011-2012 a questionnaire of Prof. Diana, Marra (2009) was submitted in test-retest to 285 students of 11-13 years (135 males, 150 females) in 28 schools of Bari, and significative differences in anwers given to same items were identified. The items were about student’s attitudes and beliefs on istitutions, rules, laws and society. RESULTS: A significative improvement seems to emerge about declared knowledge of laws (p=0,02) and confidence in istitution and political men (p=0,04) at test-retest. About reaction at acts of violence a significative halving (p=0,01) of people that wouldn’t talk with anybody was identified. Also admiration level about police increased. Level of indifference instead decreased. DISCUSSION: Significative positive variations seems to emerge about attitudes on istitutions and police, and there is an increased discrimination between legal or illegal behaviours. A more complete knowledge of laws and constitution was detected, while conspiracy of silence decreased. There are also critical areas, like a little confidence on other people. Radiokreattiva would proceed in this direction in the future: peer to peer education may be an important support to prevention and primary intervention in school ambit