Naive Conceptions Of Students Within The Training Course For Support Teachers

This paper aims to point out some attitudes and practices of teachers that may constitute forms of discrimination within pre-school and primary schools. These attitudes, apparently “non-threatening” and often naïve, hide nevertheless forms of discrimination that reflect the mechanisms of a wider society. In this scenario, we present a research within the Training Courses for Support Teachers (University of Milano-Bicocca), involving 153 students who filled in a semi-structured questionnaire. One of the aims of the questionnaire is to investigate the naive conceptions and misconceptions that support teachers to carry within themselves.