Il turismo sostenibile attraverso film e sussidi multimediali. Percorsi CLIL in inglese interdisciplinari e innovativi

Linguistic and cultural diversity is an expanding phenomenon in schools. As a consequence of this, English as lingua franca is used to communicate and teach in classrooms through CLIL methodological approach (acronym for Content and Language Integrated Learning). There is a growing trend in schools towards encouraging intercultural sensitivity and promoting global citizen education at once. Consequentially, teachers are committed to equip students with all the competences necessary to become active and responsible citizens in order to preserve and improve current natural and cultural resources. After the outbreak of the pandemic and with the necessity to adopt distance teaching, digital skills became an essential educational requisite for training students. This was also sustained by the Italian ministerial guidelines on the teaching of Civic Education issued in July 2020 that adds to the traditional teaching of Constitution, law, legality and solidarity two innovative topics: sustainable development and digital citizenship. The new compulsory and transversal nature of teaching civic education seems to compensate the often-overlooked matter of Geography, a subject that focuses its attention right on the innovative topics of Civic Education. As a matter of fact, Geography is also a transdisciplinary science that can help students to develop tolerance and understanding of cultural differences and to relate appropriately to places and to others. The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to explore how to teach sustainable tourism through CLIL approach using also films and multimedia aids to bring out links between different disciplines and allow the acquisition of specific, linguistic and transversal skills. From a theoretical - methodological approach, the primarily application purpose of this work was supported by the critical recognition of the main psycho- pedagogical theories developed at an international level regarding the increasing of innovative skills both by students and teachers. Hence, this work aims to provide useful insights for reflection to teach new trends of tourism using both English as a medium of instruction and a selection of films, multimedia and artistic-literary resources. In an interdisciplinary perspective, this can be useful to encourage students to become promoters of sustainable tourism, aware that it is indispensable to have an emotional relationship with places and people with different cultures and to act to preserve and improve natural and cultural resources of our planet in order to make the 2030 Agenda a reality.

Linguistic and cultural diversity is an expanding phenomenon in schools. As a consequence of this, English as lingua franca is used to communicate and teach in classrooms through CLIL methodological approach (acronym for Content and Language Integrated Learning). After the outbreak of the pandemic and with the necessity to adopt distance teaching, digital skills became an essential educational requisite for training students. This was also sustained by the Italian ministerial guidelines on the teaching of Civic Education issued in July 2020 that adds to the traditional teaching of Constitution, law, legality and solidarity two innovative topics: sustainable development and digital citizenship. The new compulsory and transversal nature of teaching civic education seems to compensate the often-overlooked matter of Geography, a subject that focuses its attention right on the innovative topics of Civic Education. From a theoretical - methodological approach, the primarily application purpose of this work was supported by the critical recognition of the main psycho- pedagogical theories developed at an international level regarding the increasing of innovative skills both by students and teachers. Hence, this work aims to provide useful insights for reflection to teach new trends of tourism using both English as a medium of instruction and a selection of films, multimedia and artistic-literary resources. In an interdisciplinary perspective, this can be useful to encourage students to become promoters of sustainable tourism, aware that it is indispensable to have an emotional relationship with places and people with different cultures and to act to preserve and improve natural and cultural resources of our planet in order to make the 2030 Agenda a reality