Education and democracy: the experience of a participatory action research with upper secondary education teachers in a Piemonte area

This paper aims to present some of the intermediate results of a PhD research on “Teaching Citizenship and the Italian Constitution in a Community of Democratic Practice” which is taking place at the University of Tourin (Department of Educational Sciences). The research has been structured as a research-training, that is a way for the in-service teachers’ training, according to the Decree n. 797/2016. It has been carried out with three groups of upper secondary education teachers in a Piemonte area. It has produced a useful scheme for programming for citizenship skills, a reflection on the importance of the relational climate among teachers and on the features of the school environment that are required to be a Community of democratic Practice.