Practices of Onlife Citizenship in Superdiverse Adult Education Contexts. Student Voices from an Italian CPIA

Provincial Centers for Adult Education (CPIAs) are adult education contexts where the students’ superdiversity challenges and, concurrently, contributes to the renewal of contemporary citizenship, with both arising from intercultural and digital perspectives. Though the construct of digital citizenship is explicitly referred to in these institutions’ guidelines on civic education, at the same time, it is less evident how everyday pedagogical practices manage to enhance existing competences and resources from an onlife citizenship interpretation. Drawing from a survey and biographical interviews with CPIA students with migratory backgrounds, the study aims to explore citizenship practices and meanings between online and face-to-face dimension and their potential for activating transformative processes of citizenship education inside CPIAs. The research findings shed light on both the barriers and the potentials in the direction of digital citizenship education in a transformative and intercultural sense, thus, based on the interweaving of real-life and online experiences, in local and global contexts.