Storytelling and the ‘Educational Mismatch’. Building 21st Century Skills via Experience Learning

This research conducted via the methodology of narrative analysis provides an initial assessment of the impact of Futura Italia, a project promoted by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), aiming to bridge the soft-skills ‘educational mismatch’ (EM) to cope with the evolution of the digitized society. EM is intended as the gap in soft-skills digital performance and competitiveness between the national education system and the Eu and Global standards. The teachers and students’ narratives, studied via the theories of storytelling in a constructivism framework evidence how the F. hackathon and modeling approach, founded on the Deweian principles of challenge-based learning activates a process of change behind a strong motivational drive. However, as many challenges have emerged through the research work, the research assessment indicates that a further solid research agenda is required, integrating the qualitative research with a quantitative survey.