Students experiencing disadvantages due to problematic social or environmental conditions the territorial conditions. The territorial services gaze

The research project, aimed at identifying useful elements to outline an interpretative framework on the educational fragilities of disadvantaged students and the school contexts where they study and live, as well as formulating suggestions for any changes in school policies and training activities for teachers. It was planned jointly with IPRASE (Provincial Institute for In-service Training and Educational Research and Experimentation) and the Department of Knowledge of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and it involved 105 schools of every order and degree, from primary to high school, including vocational training centres. Given the need to investigate the phenomenon in the context where it is experienced, the project was developed within the ecological paradigm. The research design has been structured around two parallel paths: the school track and the territorial services which play around students with educational fragilities. The full paper presents methods and instruments of research, as well as the results of this specific research path.