Intercultural practices in group settings. Inclusion in territorial education, between action research and scientific supervision

From a pedagogical perspective, the work deals with the relationship between territorial education and group settings with adolescents. Some elements of a project (In Gioco Con Arte, created with the contribution of the Department for Family Policies in the Reggio Emilia area) will be discussed, and several aspects relating to the scientific supervision of the project will be reported. In particular, the contribution will address the intercultural variables within educational groups, as emerged in the research-action work conducted from January to November 2022. We’ll discuss the relationship between them and the concept of “identity” as proposed to students during the Teaching of Intercultural Pedagogy, in the A.Y. 2021/2022, at the Department of Education and Humanities of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In this sense, we will try to draw a common thread between research and academic teaching, highlighting the relationship between scientific supervision and its feedback in the academic field, through an intersectional perspective via the use, in the context of intercultural pedagogy, of the concepts of “interpellation”, “stigma”, “ghost of the foreign body”, “double absence” and “skin-ego”.