The co-construction of a tool: the Toolkit for collaboration between schools and the educational third sector

Abstract

The discussion on the relationship between school and territory has returned to the centre of the debate on the future of education and training, particularly after the pandemic emergency and in response to new and old fragilities. In this context, the research project "Service Learning for collaboration between schools and the Third Sector" was carried out, involving Indire and the educators of the Co&so Empoli Consortium. The main objective was to describe and analyse the contribution of the SL in the construction of a meaningful relationship between school and territory and the inter-professional dynamics emerging from the collaboration between teachers and educators. At the end of the project, thanks to a process of shared reflection and writing, a Toolkit was developed for the replicability of the experience in other contexts that assumes the SL as a frame of reference for didactic planning.