Cover No Dunces Here
series "Contemporanea"
pp. 168, Brossura, 978-88-15-27485-4
publication year 2018

GIACOMO STELLA, MARINA ZOPPELLO

No Dunces Here

Tales of Students, Parents, and Teachers

We resort to many acronyms to indicate dyslexia, dyscalculia, attention deficit disorders and so on, yet children with learning disorders are commonly considered “dunces”, that is pupils with low intelligence and ability levels who do not benefit from education. This is a dim and unproductive perspective. The book starts with a set of touching stories, experienced and told by mothers, fathers, grandparents, former students who have grown up in the meantime, and teachers who have tackled the problem directly. Thanks to this array of episodes featuring unease, misunderstanding, as well as happy endings, the authors have initiated an exciting and courageous project that considers schools as places where no one is left behind, a renewed institution that – via up-to-date and flexible teaching and pedagogical models – accompanies everyone to adulthood. Indeed, schools can be the best places to grow up.

Giacomo Stella teaches Clinical Psychology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and is a founder of the Italian Dyslexia Association.

Marina Zoppello is a psychologist and psychotherapist who worked for many years at the Mondino Neurological Institute in Pavia.

Premessa
I. Il primo giorno di scuola
II. Grazie, maestra Anna
III. Esiste una scuola per mio figlio?
IV. Chi mi presta la memoria?
V. Non me la sento di fare outing
VI. Lettera di una nonna
VII. Elogio della lentezza
VIII. Oggi sono un restauratore
IX. Siamo costretti a bocciarlo
X. Quando il bullo è dall'altra parte
XI. Ho preso 2!
XII. Meglio parlarsi che nascondersi
XIII. Lettera a un professore
XIV. La scuola di Steve
XV. Non è mai troppo tardi
Conclusioni. Il posto migliore in cui stare