Training education professionals to build communities through art, cinema and digital technologies for preventing anti-social behaviour in youngsters

Abstract

This paper focuses on the importance of lifelong learning for education professionals with reference to secondary school teachers, educators, trainers, and all those who work with young people. In this perspective, there are two international project experiences, which are “CommUnity” and “DIVE IN”, conducted by the University of Florence within European partnership. These research contexts have promoted the training of the education professionals through the interweaving of art-based and creativity approaches combined with the blended learning strategy and the presentation of case studies. The Projects that are presented have been implemented in-depth courses about preventing antisocial behaviour among young people in Europe for both university students, future educators, and in-service teachers.