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Rizzoli Education for gender equality and plurality
Rizzoli Education for gender equality and plurality

Video: Rizzoli Education for gender equality and plurality

Video: Rizzoli Education for gender equality and plurality
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The scholastic publishing house promotes a manifesto and a series of concrete actions to provide the school world with increasingly inclusive models

Rizzoli Education, a scholastic publishing house of the Mondadori Group, which has always been committed to offering educational content and innovative learning products, undertakes a awareness path which aims to provide the school world increasingly inclusive models.

Aware of the responsibility associated with the production of teaching materials, Rizzoli Education is in fact the promoter of a series of concrete actions that pay increasing attention to issues such as gender equality, also at the center of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

A project that - starting from these inspiring principles - aims to bring the community, female students, their families and teaching staff closer to the values of gender equality, multiculturalism and inclusion, because precisely the plurality of thought is able to offer new opportunities.

Based on these keywords, Rizzoli Education he built a manifest, one declaration of values and intentions illustrated today by Alessandra Porcelli, editorial director of Rizzoli Education.

We present a manifesto that is an expression of the values we believe in and the inspiring principles that guide our entire business and that we have also matured thanks to our many years of collaboration with Irene Biemmi, specialist in gender pedagogy at the University of Florence.

As editors, we constantly deal with these issues, which today are increasingly of daily interest, not only in the media and in everyday life, but in particular in the world of school and school texts. Issues on which there is still a long way to go and to which we want to contribute. We do it and we will continue to do so, thanks to the possibility that we have every day to work side by side with teachers and teachers in the growth path of the new generations. Citizens and citizens that we hope will learn to be aware, free from prejudices, stereotypes of any kind and able to respect and value differences , declared Alessandra Porcelli, editorial director of Rizzoli Education.

The poster will be presented during a live streaming event organized by Rizzoli Education which will see the participation and testimonies of voices from the world of journalism, of the Research, of publishing, from the companies, of art and of sport.

Among them, the sociolinguist Vera Gheno, the journalist Francesca Mannocchi, the swimmer Federico Morlacchi, the teacher of pedagogy Dario Ianes And Francesca Rigolio, Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Human Resources area Books of the Mondadori Group, who underlined:

"Education has always been a fundamental lever for the redistribution of skills and for the best allocation of talents on the labor market and the Rizzoli Education initiative fully grasps this spirit and interprets it in a proactive and innovative way", he declared Francesca Rigolio, Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Human Resources in the Books area of the Mondadori Group. "The organization that a community, and therefore a company, gives itself has important consequences on the architecture of the opportunities, not just material, which are offered to the people who are part of it. By creating a specific Diversity & Inclusion function, the Mondadori Group sets itself the goal of improving the balance of opportunities offered to its employees, promoting an inclusive culture against discrimination ", concluded Rigolio.

The event organized by Rizzoli Education will be an opportunity for reflection and sharing of the inspiring principles of the publishing house's project:

We say no to stereotypes and prejudices

Valuing people and not the gender they belong to. There are no predetermined roles, only female or male. Women and men are equal in society and in any other area where they can express their skills and personality.

We look at plurality and inclusiveness

Aware of the changes taking place in society, Rizzoli Education aims to stimulate an inclusive and respectful vision of differences, in line with the principles of fairness and equality, equal opportunities and non-discrimination, assuming a point of view that values differences and reflect a plural and multifaceted world.

We believe that language affects reality

Language and the way we express ourselves are tools that act on the perception of oneself and others. For this reason, Rizzoli Education undertakes to use both verbal and visual language in textbooks that contributes to deconstructing the stereotypes conveyed by the language through the search for inclusive and neutral solutions that do not express prejudice.

We want to help repopulate the imagination of the younger generations

The commitment is aimed at proposing non-sexist female and male representations and avoiding other forms of prejudice, stereotype and discrimination, providing more open, aware and free models aimed at female students and students. The hope of Rizzoli Education is that the younger generations, to whose education the books offer a contribution, can expand the possibilities of building their own identity and planning their future, in the educational-training field as well as in the professional and their life choices.

Inspiring principles that Rizzoli Education makes concrete in his daily activity as a publisher of books for the school using the scientific advice of figures skilled in gender issues and issues of plurality.

Through collaboration with Erickson, Rizzoli Education has also implemented a series of guidelines focused in particular on the issues of gender equality developed by Irene Biemmi.

These indications gave birth to a vademecum shared with everyone involved in the creation of textbooks: authors and authors, illustrators and illustrators, iconographic researchers and researchers, editors and editors. At the center, primary attention to one balanced representation of genres, intended as protagonists and protagonists, authors and authors, with a focus specific on textual language And visual through inclusive solutions that leave no space in textbooks and stereotyped or conventional visions.

This project is the result of Rizzoli Education's many years of experience both in the development of guidelines on gender equality issues and on content supervision activities to ensure compliance with the inspiring principles of the publishing house.

In fact, in 2018 Rizzoli Education launched, again in collaboration with Erickson and Irene Biemmi, the project Parity goal for primary school: a program that provides for the timely supervision by Irene Biemmi of the selection of anthological passages, of the language, of the illustrations and in general of the gender balance in the entire works.

Five years after the launch of Obiettivo Parità, Rizzoli Education felt it had to extend attention to the principles of gender equality to all of its production, expanding the spectrum of values with a more general reference also to plurality, as reported in the manifesto.

The complete presentation event of the Rizzoli Education manifesto will be live streaming today on the Rizzoli Education YouTube channel today from 4.30 pm.

The illustrated poster for gender equality and plurality by Rizzoli Education was created by Nicolò Canova.

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