“Official” Facebook Groups of teachers and students: building up networks of mutual learners

The paper recounts of some teaching experiences (in Constitutional Law, Comparative and European) and accounts for the results of a specific experiment: the establishment of official Facebook Groups managed by the Teaching Staff. The experiment has been carried out in undergraduate courses within classes of variable dimensions (from 15 to a hundred and more students) who lacked linguistic and cultural homogeneity and most often were at different stages of their career. These courses were offered by the Law Faculties of private Universities, which situates the experiment in a peculiar socio-cultural and familiar-personal milieu. The outcome displays a facilitated communication and a simplified interaction among the students, as well as with the Teaching Staff, which ranges beyond the conclusion of the course –as the Group does not cease to function as a common platform for old and new students. Eventually, it may be affirmed that the social facility improves the individual and collective self-awareness of young women and men at a fundamental stage of their education, with a view to growing future citizens of a pluralist, multicultural democracy