EDUCATIONAL ITINERARIES OF THE ITALIAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS NETWORK FOR THE LIFELONG GUIDANCE TO THE SCIENTIFIC CULTURE AND METHOD

The Italian University Museums network should become a privileged seat for the realization of educational itineraries for lifelong guidance toward the scientific culture and method, which is common to all the scientific disciplines, thanks to the cultural heritage and to the competences that are in the museums of the network: 47 museums, 12 botanical gardens and 39 collections. These educational guiding paths are addressed to secondary schools in coordination with the School Offices, the school directors, and with the guidance offices of each participating University. The effectiveness of interventions depends on the University Museums ability undertaken actions integration in a logic of educational and didactic continuity: an to integrate system of guidance, able to involve Universities, schools and museums, could contemporaneously and diachronically valorize the informative, formative and guiding moment, before and during the University studies, joining the activities promoted by academic guidance offices of the involved Universities. Moreover a network of interested subjects, not only schools, Universities and educative agencies, but also students, educators and families can be able to promote the scientific culture, to valorize humans and to use all the possibilities offered by the traditional channels, the new technologies and the web in order to let the youths know the opportunities and the available services.