Psycho-pedagogical balancing acts: on the thin line of educational poverty This article draws its inspiration from the definition of the educational poverty construct (Save the Children, 2014) and the notion of capability (Sen, 1999/2000; Nussbaum, 2011/2012). Without claiming to be exhaustive, it is argued that educational poverty could be a source of incapacitation or disablement, translating into a lack of or reduced qualifying competences, such as cognitive, affective, emotional, communicative, relational, socio-economic ones, etc. Moreover, food for thought is offered on the balancing acts sometimes imposed on the growing individual by adult categorizations, in the face of already precarious balances in the manifestation of each person’s uniqueness. The reader is brought to ask: can adult pedagogical poverty and its subsequent educational deprivations have incapacitating or disabling outcomes? Are there forms of poverty and incapability caused by politics, culture, educational practices? What are the boundaries between the effects of educational poverty and those of a widespread tendency towards pathologization? Despite being aware that facing educational poverty is both a pedagogical and political issue (Lombardi, 2022), what paths can an educator follow today when working in materially and educationally impoverished contexts?

Il presente contributo trae le mosse dalla definizione del costrutto di povertà educativa (Save the Children, 2014) e dalla nozione di capability (Sen, 1999/2000; Nussbaum, 2011/2012). Senza pretesa di esaustività, si sostiene che le povertà educative possano essere fonte di in-abilitazione o dis-abilitazione, traducendosi in mancate o ridotte competenze qualificanti, cognitive, affettivo-emotive, comunicativo-relazionali, socio-economiche, ecc. Sono offerti inoltre spunti di riflessione sugli equilibrismi talvolta imposti al soggetto in crescita da categorizzazioni create dagli adulti, a fronte di equilibri già precari nell’espressione dell’unicità di ciascuno. Il lettore è accompagnato a chiedersi: la povertà pedagogica degli adulti e le conseguenti privazioni educative possono avere esiti in-abilitanti e dis-abilitanti? Ci sono forme di povertà e in-capacitazione causate dalla politica, dalla cultura, dalle prassi educative? Quali sono i confini tra gli effetti delle povertà educative e quelli di una diffusa tendenza alla patologizzazione? Seppur nella consapevolezza che affrontare il fenomeno delle povertà educative è insieme questione pedagogica e politica (Lombardi, 2022), quali vie può seguire già oggi l’educatore che si muove in contesti materialmente ed educativamente poveri?

Finetti, S., Equilibrismi psico-pedagogici: sul confine sottile della povertà educativa, <<ATTUALITÀ PEDAGOGICHE>>, 2024; 6 (1): 24-32 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/261654]

Equilibrismi psico-pedagogici: sul confine sottile della povertà educativa

Finetti, Simona
2024

Abstract

Psycho-pedagogical balancing acts: on the thin line of educational poverty This article draws its inspiration from the definition of the educational poverty construct (Save the Children, 2014) and the notion of capability (Sen, 1999/2000; Nussbaum, 2011/2012). Without claiming to be exhaustive, it is argued that educational poverty could be a source of incapacitation or disablement, translating into a lack of or reduced qualifying competences, such as cognitive, affective, emotional, communicative, relational, socio-economic ones, etc. Moreover, food for thought is offered on the balancing acts sometimes imposed on the growing individual by adult categorizations, in the face of already precarious balances in the manifestation of each person’s uniqueness. The reader is brought to ask: can adult pedagogical poverty and its subsequent educational deprivations have incapacitating or disabling outcomes? Are there forms of poverty and incapability caused by politics, culture, educational practices? What are the boundaries between the effects of educational poverty and those of a widespread tendency towards pathologization? Despite being aware that facing educational poverty is both a pedagogical and political issue (Lombardi, 2022), what paths can an educator follow today when working in materially and educationally impoverished contexts?
2024
Italiano
Finetti, S., Equilibrismi psico-pedagogici: sul confine sottile della povertà educativa, <<ATTUALITÀ PEDAGOGICHE>>, 2024; 6 (1): 24-32 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/261654]
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