Come
valutare l’efficacia della formazione professionale per l’integrazione dei
soggetti deboli.
Lezioni
dall’esperienza dell’area Istruzione e Formazione Professionale della Provincia
di Torino
[How to evaluate vocational training policies to integrate weak
individuals
in the labor market. Lessons from the experience of Provincia di Torino]
Arturo Faggio,
Paola Mussino, Elena Ragazzi, Elena Santanera*
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Abstract: Sociological and
economical literatures agree in asserting that individual integration in the labour market represents
an important vehicle of social inclusion. In fact, individual exclusion
from the labour market could have economical (poverty), sociological (disrepute and
weakening of relational networks) and psychological (impoverishment of
self-esteem) effects that eventually could bring to a spreading and persistent
social exclusion. Vocational training policies, as they are conceived in
Piedmont and more generally in Italy, are particularly helpful in contrasting
such individual weakness and social exclusion. This is due to its pedagogical
and didactical methods and to the attention that vocational training policies
pay to the improvement of individual relational and professional skills. Both the
programming and management phases of vocational training policies need, to be
effective, to include an evaluation process that highlights its weak and
strength points. Aware of this, the Province of Turin is enhancing its
evaluation competences by directly implementing and/or by externalizing some
vocational training policies evaluation projects. This article describes some
of these projects with the aim of analyzing both the existing and the potential
connections between the evaluation and the programming phases in vocational
training policies.
keywords: policy
evaluation, vocational training, social integration, labor market.