Education should ensure that, from early childhood, children gradually acquire greater awareness of themselves, their potential, and how to express themselves while respecting each other's differences. Through processes of identification and progressive self-determination, children learn to perceive themselves, get to know themselves, and discover their own aptitudes. However, behind the apparent neutrality of educational actions and linguistic expressions, there are often limitations, stereotypes, and prejudices that are transmitted, more or less consciously, to those who are growing up. In an attempt to show how this risk can be countered, this contribution presents the experience of a childcare service engaged in a problematizing reading of the ways in which culture interprets interpersonal differences and the rigid identity models underlying it.
L’educazione dovrebbe garantire fin dalla prima infanzia l’acquisizione di gradi via via maggiori di consapevolezza di sé, delle proprie potenzialità, della loro espressione nel rispetto delle differenze altrui. Attraverso processi di individuazione e progressiva autodeterminazione i bambini e le bambine imparano a percepirsi, a conoscersi, a scoprire le proprie attitudini. Ma dietro l’apparente neutralità delle azioni educative e delle espressioni linguistiche, spesso si celano limitazioni, stereotipi e pregiudizi che, più o meno consapevolmente, vengono trasmessi a chi sta crescendo. Nel tentativo di mostrare come sia possibile contrastare questo rischio, il contributo presenta l’esperienza di un servizio per l’infanzia impegnato in una lettura problematizzante dei modi con cui la cultura interpreta le differenze interpersonali e dei rigidi modelli identitari ad essa sottesi.
Musi, E., Ziliani, C., Multiple e composite: identità senza etichette.Educare al rispetto dell’alterità fin dalla prima infanzia, <<WOMEN & EDUCATION>>, 2025; 2025 (6): 91-96. [doi:https://doi.org/10.7346/-we-III-06-25_16] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/328437]
Multiple e composite: identità senza etichette. Educare al rispetto dell’alterità fin dalla prima infanzia
Musi, ElisabettaPrimo
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2025
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Education should ensure that, from early childhood, children gradually acquire greater awareness of themselves, their potential, and how to express themselves while respecting each other's differences. Through processes of identification and progressive self-determination, children learn to perceive themselves, get to know themselves, and discover their own aptitudes. However, behind the apparent neutrality of educational actions and linguistic expressions, there are often limitations, stereotypes, and prejudices that are transmitted, more or less consciously, to those who are growing up. In an attempt to show how this risk can be countered, this contribution presents the experience of a childcare service engaged in a problematizing reading of the ways in which culture interprets interpersonal differences and the rigid identity models underlying it.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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