Dalla scuola al museo: spunti di riflessione per una didattica per competenze.

This research is part of a four-year collaboration between Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia, the city’s schools and the CERIID (UNIMORE) research group. Museums, a place of mediation between exhibits and users and of immersive learning, are the framework for learning paths co-designed with schools, in an interdisciplinary perspective. CERIID was involved to observe, monitor and describe the educational proposal, and the gains of these immersive pathways. In the first 2 years the research has indicated how the exposure of teachers to a dynamic and interdisciplinary educational proposal is an opportunity to gain new awareness of the inclusive value, the persistence of the learning achieved, and the general well-being that learning at the museum brings. At the same time, however, the idea emerges that a certain kind of schooling can only be done at the museum. This paper outlines one of the functional proposals to support research and experimentation in schools aimed at the introduction of competence-based teaching. After the experience at the museum, a training and investigative process was constructed with the teachers involved. University researchers and museum educators monitored the museum experience and co-designed learning units with the teachers, to support skills-based teaching in school.