Walking Toward Educational Futures

Strade Maestre as Pedagogical World-Making Through Collective Journey

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ID19232139
AuthorsEmilio Ruffolo (CamminaMenti Social Cooperative, corresponding author), Davide Carella (University of Bologna), Roberta Cortella (Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito – I.C. Piaget Majorana), Valentina Frasisti (CamminaMenti Social Cooperative), Ivan Genesio (Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito – Liceo Alberti-Dante Firenze), Marco Saverio Loperfido (CamminaMenti Social Cooperative), Angela MAGNANINI (0000-0001-8158-9272, Foro Italico University of Rome), Marta Sanchez Utge (0000-0001-6608-1016, Foro Italico University of Rome), Marco Valesi (University of Essex)
Year2026
Pages1-21
Publication date2026-03-23
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Futures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0260-4027 • E-ISSN: 1556-1844
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02604027.2026.2622289
OpenAlexW7140120164
LanguageEN
References cited17

Strade Maestre is a year-long walking school that began in 2024–2025 with a first cohort of eight high school students and three teachers traveling across Italy. The project serves both as a critique of contemporary institutionalized schooling and a catalyst for educational transformation. This article examines the project’s experimental practice through a polyphonic methodology that mirrors its nonhierarchical, inclusive approach. Drawing on voices from practitioners in the first cohort and incoming participants, the insights and reflections problematize institutional assumptions while activating futures-oriented educational imaginaries. Strade Maestre functions as an educational world-making device and transdisciplinary laboratory, demonstrating how daily life becomes matter for learning, inquiry, and emancipation, inspiring new pedagogical possibilities beyond traditional classroom constraints

Ethnography · Art Education and Development · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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