Project financed by UNINT – Third mission call – social impact (academic year 2022/2023)
Responsible: Stefano Luigi Mangia, UNINT teacher
Objectives
"Music by children & kids. Improvisation in the family relationship: functional and dysfunctional sounds in the harmonious process of the family” is a project that aims to build assisted pathways of resilience and the development of the emotional-affective dimension of children and adolescents. Specifically, the focus is on letting children and families experience the pedagogical value e formative of the jazz language and improvisational conduct. Predominant is, therefore, the language of improvisation as an element to stimulate creativity, a necessary pedagogical tool against intellectual passivity.
More generally, the project proposal aims to:
- promote the pedagogical value of jazz and improvised music;
- recover creative thinking through the shared experience of musical practices;
- enhance singing and instrumental skills to communicate emotions, sensations and atmospheres;
- promote the inclusion of differences;
- promote relational attitudes and break down socio-cultural barriers;
- raise awareness of students, young people and the community on social issues of current interest;
- promote an intentional "educational-affective community culture" among all social actors and their networks;
- promote an alternative education and care system to the traditional one to be offered especially to users who are in a more vulnerable situation;
- implement an assisted resilience intervention in the area where the welfare model is implemented to overcome the critical issues caused by contemporary multilevel emergencies (social, educational-parental, institutional, health, environmental, war, etc.);
- prevent and stem the phenomena of youth hardship of our time through multidisciplinary interventions focused on the recovery of the "intergenerational fracture" and the "dialogue between adults and minors and between peers";
- promote knowledge and professional implementation of the construct of "widespread parenting" among operators in the educational and care relationship and families through community educational and didactic action capable of involving every family unit interested in developmental issues and educational poverty and of the development of the emotional-affective dimension of children.
Actions
Organization of a public concert with free participation entitled “Music by children & kids. Improvisation in the family relationship: functional and dysfunctional sounds in the harmonious process of the family" on 10 June 2023, 16 pm, in the main hall of the University of International Studies of Rome - UNINT.
Impact
The socioeconomic context is the suburbs of Rome, specifically the neighborhood Bridge of Ninth. The invitation to participate is in fact also addressed to families who live in the Nuova Ponte di Nona neighborhood, the new neighborhood of Rome, whose construction began in 2002. The neighborhood is located in Municipality VI, the most populous and youngest Municipality of Rome, which records the highest index of socioeconomic hardship. Due to the lack of services, structures and cultural centres, the School constitutes one of the few aggregation centers capable of offering hospitality, availability of resources, recovery activities and cultural enhancement.
The evaluation of the cultural and socio-economic impact of the initiative finds its elective methodology in qualitative-quantitative research.
Indicators
- Questionnaires to be administered to the inhabitants of the Ponte di Nona neighborhood who took part in the initiative;
- dedicated focus groups aimed at highlighting the results achieved in terms of capacity building, support and development of care and parenting functions in the family;
- number of participants in the initiative.
