The frontier of biopedagogy
Piero Crispiani
This paper develops certain epistemological boundaries of neuropedagogy, a transdisciplinary approach which was created in the early decades of the twentieth century in other countries (the USSR, France and the USA) and valued in Italy initially by Franco Fabbro, Piero Crispiani and other experts in clinical pedagogy, Pier Cesare Rivoltella and a few others. With the construct of biopedagogy, a paradigm conceived by Henri Laborit, reintroduced by Nando Filograsso and developed mostly in the field of professional pedagogy, the theoretical framework of clinical pedagogy comes to a more aware epistemological organisation and proves attentive to the connections between habilitation processes and the dynamics and critical issues of the development of the individual, with concern for both the various functional areas (motor, perceptive, linguistic, thought, relational areas etc.) and human diversities (pathologies, disabilities, impairments, developmental delays, functional disorders, marginalities, maladjustments etc.). The route towards an epistemic weaving of pedagogy and medicine is based upon the debate around problems linked to the topics of neurodevelopment, biodiversity, diagnostic practices, and habilitation and rehabilitation training, which, in varying ways and to varying degrees, involve pedagogical figures and services that provide «assistance to individuals».
Keywords
Biopedagogy, transdisciplinary paradigm, special pedagogy, clinical pedagogy, neuropedagogy.
