La scuola nei media: come le questioni educative e didattiche sono state raccontate durante i primi 40 giorni di pandemia

The health emergency of the Covid-19, and the need to beat alter-native routes to the usual classroom lessons, has brought the debate on didactics back on everyone’s agenda-setting, bringing out different positions about the very essence of schooling. This scenario has been widely narrated in the newspapers, and it has found enormous space for discussion on the net. After the government’s announcement on March 5, 2020, the debate on school and didactics has been extended and diversified, addressing specific issues, also technical, of teaching and learning, usually reserved to experts: the value of assessment and method, the digital competence of teachers, the role of students and families. This paper aims to study the narrative of the school and the teaching experience, made in 3 Italian newspapers and in some specialized sites during the first 40 days of the lockdown throughout the country. This media filter can tell us something about the perception that one has of the school, as a basis for a broader reflection on the effectiveness of political, communicative, organizational and methodological choices.