Thursday 29 January, 5.45 pm
Turin, Teatro Colosseo, via Madama Cristina 71
The 23rd edition of Giovedìscienza features a meeting with Tullio De Mauro, Professor Emeritus at the La Sapienza University of Rome and President of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale together with Massimiano Bucchi from Observa - Science in Society.
"In Italy, il 5% of the adult population is completely illiterate, 33% is semi-illiterate and another 33% is at risk of dropping back into illiteracy. This means that thirty-two million Italians are literally and arithmetically incompetent, at least in part. While in Europe the average is just slightly over 50%, Italy exceeds 70%. Two-thirds of Italians never reads a book or a newspaper, while in many areas of the South and in the outskirts of the major cities, the number of school drop outs is very high. A classical fault is that of only taking classics and literature into account when speaking about culture, but obviously, culture also includes a scientific component, as well as a technical one, that underlie humanistic culture. What must be done? Stimulated by the recent data provided by Massimiliano Bucchi, Prof. De Mauro will analyse half a century of Italian life and describe the transformations that have taken place in the world of research, teaching, information and the very idea of culture and knowledge."
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