Fostering education and combating educational poverty. A matter of paradigms? Educational practices are affected by the dominant paradigm in the belonging context, which influences the representation of the human being, the idea and the purposes of education. Consequently, as a connecting science between the human sciences, pedagogy is called upon to be a critical instance. This article examines the issue of educational poverty – and of possible actions to prevent and combat it – in light of the cultural frameworks in which it is conceived. The responses to variations of the phenomenon could benefit from contaminations or from the openness to different epistemological and cultural paradigms, capable of enriching educators’ professionalism and nourishing their motivation. In order to deal with today’s Western society typical forms of poverty, it is proposed to draw from both the emerging systemic holistic paradigm and the epistemology of complexity, as well as from proto-holistic practices and guiding principles deriving from neurosciences. The reader is supported in reflecting on the foundations of an integrating education which, taking advantage of sciences from East to West, favours the flourishing and expression of human multidimensionality.

Le pratiche educative risentono del paradigma dominante nel contesto di appartenenza, che influenza la rappresentazione dell’essere umano, l’idea e le finalità dell’educazione. Conseguentemente, la pedagogia, scienza di raccordo tra le scienze umane, è chiamata a essere un’istanza critica. Il presente articolo esamina la questione della povertà educativa – e delle azioni possibili di prevenzione e contrasto – alla luce delle cornici culturali entro cui viene concepita. Le risposte alle declinazioni del fenomeno potrebbero giovarsi di contaminazioni o aperture a paradigmi epistemologici e culturali alternativi, in grado di arricchire la professionalità degli educatori e di nutrirne la motivazione. Per far fronte a povertà tipiche dell’odierna società occidentale si propone di attingere dal paradigma olistico sistemico emergente e dall’epistemologia della complessità, da prassi proto-olistiche e orientamenti derivanti dalle neuroscienze. Il lettore è accompagnato a riflettere sui fondamenti di un’educazione integrativa che, facendo tesoro del portato delle scienze da Oriente a Occidente, favorisca la fioritura e l’espressione della multidimensionalità umana.

Finetti, S., Promuovere l’educazione e contrastare la povertà educativa. Questione di paradigmi?, <<ENCYCLOPAIDEIA>>, 2024; 28 (68): 29-41. [doi:https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/19181] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/274643]

Promuovere l’educazione e contrastare la povertà educativa. Questione di paradigmi?

Finetti, Simona
2024

Abstract

Fostering education and combating educational poverty. A matter of paradigms? Educational practices are affected by the dominant paradigm in the belonging context, which influences the representation of the human being, the idea and the purposes of education. Consequently, as a connecting science between the human sciences, pedagogy is called upon to be a critical instance. This article examines the issue of educational poverty – and of possible actions to prevent and combat it – in light of the cultural frameworks in which it is conceived. The responses to variations of the phenomenon could benefit from contaminations or from the openness to different epistemological and cultural paradigms, capable of enriching educators’ professionalism and nourishing their motivation. In order to deal with today’s Western society typical forms of poverty, it is proposed to draw from both the emerging systemic holistic paradigm and the epistemology of complexity, as well as from proto-holistic practices and guiding principles deriving from neurosciences. The reader is supported in reflecting on the foundations of an integrating education which, taking advantage of sciences from East to West, favours the flourishing and expression of human multidimensionality.
2024
Italiano
Finetti, S., Promuovere l’educazione e contrastare la povertà educativa. Questione di paradigmi?, <<ENCYCLOPAIDEIA>>, 2024; 28 (68): 29-41. [doi:https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/19181] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/274643]
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