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Anche le stelle piangono. Storia della normativa sull’handicap
The volume gathers together the most significant legislation concerning the support to students in a situation of disability issued in our country from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day, with reference also to that produced by the main international organizations. By sanctioning the abolition of segregating and humiliating special schools and providing for the integration of disabled pupils into the common classes, Italian legislation has placed itself at the forefront of Europe and perhaps in the world, becoming a point of reference for other states. Disability is a complex problem that has numerous valences, a world that generates particular and varied states of mind: disbelief, tension, anger, suffering. How many tears the parents of these children secretly pour into the silence of their homes for their most unfortunate children, how many thoughts, how many worries, how much suffering! The present work aims to be an instrument of knowledge and help for these parents, who see their creatures wounded by an adverse destiny, sometimes evil, and for teachers, especially supporters, called to perform a noble and delicate work aimed at to stimulate and enrich the development of the personality of their students, to favor their autonomy and the ability to make informed and prudent choices. It is therefore an aid and support to families and school operators, so that together they can build individualized and personalized learning paths that take into maximum consideration the psycho-socio-cultural characteristics of these children, facilitating the creation of a valid and rich project of life for each of them.
Authors
Antonio Fratangelo, who got a degree in law in Italy and various academic titles abroad, decided to dedicate his life to teaching.
He already published: “Ancilla domini. La condizione della donna nella tradizione giuridica romana, giudaica, paleocristiana e islamica” (Napoli, 2012), “Nuptias consensus facit? L’istituto del matrimonio nelle tradizioni giuridiche romana, islamica, giudaica e nel diritto delle Comunità cristiane” (Napoli, 2015) and “Trasparenza e accesso nella Pubblica Amministrazione. Studio comparativo” (Napoli, 2016).
Mario Fratangelo got a degree in Law and Literature in Italy and in Modern Languages in Rennes (France). He has always worked in schools as a French language and literature teacher, and as a principal and ministerial inspector. Moreover, he was an Italian teacher at “Lycée Kérichen” and of Civil law at the Economics department in Brest (France). He took part in seminaries in the Department of Foreign languages and literatures at University of Pescara “G. D’Annunzio”. He got scholarships by CEE for the ARION project to study disabled people’s problems in Hannover (Germany) and migrant’s children’s schooling in Bruxelles (Belgium) and of minor languages in Spain.
He was the supervisor in many courses for people abroad which took place in Italy and Belgium. He was also a teacher for support teachers at University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and in Molise.
He published papers about French Literature and normative papers on disabled students: Introduzione e commento a “M.lle Fifì” di Guy de Maupassant (Campobasso 1973); Alcuni sguardi sull’opera di Guy de Maupassant (Cassino, 1974); Guy de Maupassant scrittore moderno (Firenze, 1976); Realismo e simbolismo in alcune opere di Yves Thériault, scrittore canadese (Campobasso, 1978); Il giansenismo di François Mauriac (Napoli, 1980); Il sequestro delle temporalità nel Regno di Napoli nei sec. XVI e XVII (Campobasso, 1988); Integrazione e opportunità territoriali (Campobasso, 1992); Famiglia, Scuola e Società per l’integrazione dei disabili (Campobasso, 1993); Le lingue straniere nella scuola dell’obbligo: aspetti teorici e operativi (Città di Castello, 1994); Linguaggi non verbali ed handicap (Roma, 1995); Handicap e processi cognitivi (Campobasso, 1996); Handicap. Contributi eapprofondimenti, (Campobasso, 1997); L’insegnante di sostegno nel contesto Europeo (Campobasso, 1998).
