Smart working and employment of persons with intellectual disabilities: implications for educational proposals

Italy boasts both specific laws protecting the work inclusion and a pedagogical history full ofscholars supporting the importance of work as an educational opportunity for persons withdisabilities. However, this pioneering tradition is still struggling to be translated into practice and today it has to face with all the changes introduced by the Industry 4.0.This Fourth Industrial Revolution is slowly changing the world of work through a profound technological transformation making the concept of smart working concrete in terms of production process and modalities with which the technological/virtual interaction modifies the traditional work structures. These transformations question special pedagogy scholars and teachers working with students with disabilities.