Embedding Integration in Education: a challenge still open.

Since the 1980s, sociological studies have paid increasing attention to the progressive diversification of educational and learning contexts. This paper offers an overview of the main challenges coming from the need to “embedding integration in education”, in the framework of sociological research on the crisis of the school-centric model, the progressive development of a poly-centric educational scenario, the importance of non-schooling, and the growing need of an integrated education system. Based on the current international research literature, some theoretical models useful for the governance of integration in education are discussed, with a particular attention to the construction of new teaching-learning environments based on the hybridization of a variety of sources, contexts, methods, and actors.