This article grows out of the meeting with various cultural mediators of different nationalities who are working in schools in Genoa. The purpose is to observe their viewpoints on education systems, inclusion and a welcoming school environment which deals with problematic aspects, and how to resolve them. The themes concern curriculum programming and its difficulties considering the lack of sex education programs and health education in junior high schools and also the difficulties experienced by many foreign students in accessing the high school (educational training and orientation, family involvement, disappointed expectations and school attendance caused by migration). At the same time, our attention will focus on the role of the cultural mediator and its internal (the relationships with teachers) and external (with the family and the community) functions. Moreover the school mediators pointed out possible prejudices and cultural misunderstandings on the part of some teacher and, at the end of meeting, each of them proposed actions to improve and facilitate the procedure of cultural mediation in the educational processes.

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education perception curriculum Liguria Eurasia training Italy cultural change secondary education Europe Southern Europe migration Genoa Genova