This thesis is the result of an exploratory qualitative research on the topic of educational poverty. The purpose of the study is to frame a pedagogical semantic area around this theme, through which enrich the already existing theories about it. The study starts from exploring the different theoretical perspectives that have investigated the educational poverty problem; afterwards a normative framework for the issue is presented, in international, European and national terms; then contributions that analyse the question in relation to a peculiar form of poverty in the Italian context are explored. This last part makes evident the need to rethink the connection between school and territory. In order to define a pedagogical semantic area around the theme of educational poverty, an holistic case study has been conducted around "Sulla Buona Strada" project which operates in some areas of the city of Genoa with the aim of counteracting this phenomenon. Choosing a specific position about the quality of the educational experience, a dense local theory on the object of study has been developed, enhancing the contribution of education professionals involved into the research. The intersection between the emerging theoretical framework and the empirical investigation, as well as the need to broaden the researcher’s knowledge on the topic, has resulted in a pedagogical and plural configuration of educational poverty, which implies different aspects: the recognition of a deprivation that deals with the contexts of experience and the difficulties that adults face in living the present; the identification of an impoverishment of the territory, which implies a progressive weakening of the welfare state, of the concept of community and of the relationship between school and extra-school. Conceptualizing "educational poverty" in this sense implies, in the discussion with educational professionals, a definition of human being that is competent to emancipate himself/herself from the multiple conditionings of the socio-cultural context and to juggle the unpredictability of existential and educational experiences. This expansion of the issue also entails that education experts find proper strategies to understand the contemporaneity, to avoid the risk, with their practices, of replicating the dynamics of impoverishment of actual times. The thesis, therefore, illustrates a progressive approach to a plural and multifaceted vision of the investigated phenomenon, considering a peculiar epistemological position on the meaning of educational experience.
La tesi costituisce l’esito di un lavoro esplorativo di ricerca di tipo qualitativo attorno al tema della povertà educativa. Scopo dello studio è quello di inquadrare un’area semantica di matrice pedagogica attorno a questo oggetto, che arricchisca le teorie già esistenti intorno ad esso. Il lavoro prende le mosse dall’inquadramento del tema, esplorando i diversi saperi che lo hanno interrogato; successivamente viene dato conto del quadro normativo di riferimento per la questione, in termini internazionali, europei e nazionali; si esplorano poi alcuni contributi che analizzano la questione in rapporto a una forma peculiare di povertà che caratterizza il contesto italiano e che esplicitano in particolare la necessità di ripensare al rapporto tra scuola e territorio. Al fine di costruire un’area semantica di matrice pedagogica attorno al tema della povertà educativa, si è scelto di condurre uno studio di caso olistico attorno al progetto “Sulla Buona Strada” che opera in alcune zone della città di Genova con lo scopo di contrastare questo fenomeno. A partire da uno specifico posizionamento rispetto a che cosa si intenda per qualità dell’esperienza educativa, si è inteso elaborare una densa teoria locale sull’oggetto di studio, valorizzando il contributo dei professionisti dell’educazione coinvolti nella ricerca. L’incrocio tra quanto emerso dal quadro teorico di riferimento e dall’indagine empirica, nonché la necessità di ampliare la conoscenza già in possesso della ricercatrice attorno alla questione, hanno permesso di pervenire a una configurazione pedagogica e plurale della povertà educativa, che implica alcuni piani in particolare: il riconoscimento di una privazione che riguarda i contesti di esperienza e le difficoltà che gli adulti incontrano nell’abitare il presente; l’individuazione di un impoverimento del territorio, che implica un progressivo indebolimento dello Stato sociale, del concetto di comunità e del rapporto tra scuola ed extra-scuola. Concettualizzare in tal senso “le” povertà educative implica mettere al centro del discorso con i professionisti dell’educazione una definizione di essere umano come soggetto capace di emanciparsi dai condizionamenti molteplici del contesto in cui vive e di destreggiarsi con l’imprevedibilità dell’esperienza esistenziale ed educativa. Un tale ampliamento del tema prevede inoltre che gli stessi esperti dell’educazione trovino delle strategie adeguate a significare il presente, affinchè, con le loro prassi, non rischino di replicare le dinamiche di impoverimento della contemporaneità. La tesi, dunque, mostra il progressivo avvicinamento a una visione plurale e sfaccettata del fenomeno indagato, valorizzando un posizionamento epistemologico peculiare su che cosa si intenda per esperienza educativa.
(2021). Povertà educativa tra teoria e pratica. Uno sguardo pedagogico.. (Tesi di dottorato, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2021).
Povertà educativa tra teoria e pratica. Uno sguardo pedagogico.
SOTTOCORNO, MADDALENA
2021
Abstract
This thesis is the result of an exploratory qualitative research on the topic of educational poverty. The purpose of the study is to frame a pedagogical semantic area around this theme, through which enrich the already existing theories about it. The study starts from exploring the different theoretical perspectives that have investigated the educational poverty problem; afterwards a normative framework for the issue is presented, in international, European and national terms; then contributions that analyse the question in relation to a peculiar form of poverty in the Italian context are explored. This last part makes evident the need to rethink the connection between school and territory. In order to define a pedagogical semantic area around the theme of educational poverty, an holistic case study has been conducted around "Sulla Buona Strada" project which operates in some areas of the city of Genoa with the aim of counteracting this phenomenon. Choosing a specific position about the quality of the educational experience, a dense local theory on the object of study has been developed, enhancing the contribution of education professionals involved into the research. The intersection between the emerging theoretical framework and the empirical investigation, as well as the need to broaden the researcher’s knowledge on the topic, has resulted in a pedagogical and plural configuration of educational poverty, which implies different aspects: the recognition of a deprivation that deals with the contexts of experience and the difficulties that adults face in living the present; the identification of an impoverishment of the territory, which implies a progressive weakening of the welfare state, of the concept of community and of the relationship between school and extra-school. Conceptualizing "educational poverty" in this sense implies, in the discussion with educational professionals, a definition of human being that is competent to emancipate himself/herself from the multiple conditionings of the socio-cultural context and to juggle the unpredictability of existential and educational experiences. This expansion of the issue also entails that education experts find proper strategies to understand the contemporaneity, to avoid the risk, with their practices, of replicating the dynamics of impoverishment of actual times. The thesis, therefore, illustrates a progressive approach to a plural and multifaceted vision of the investigated phenomenon, considering a peculiar epistemological position on the meaning of educational experience.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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