Parola creativa ed esegesi del sé per una cultura di partnership e pratiche comunitarie di guidance
Roberto Albarea
When we explore the educational meanings of «words» in literature (never exhaustive, since they urge us to deeper «conversions») in the wake of the cultural tradition of the past and embroiled in the contemporary educational debate, we find ourselves on the path of an inner shaping of people. According to the illuminating intuitions of Jacques Maritain, the creative word is characterized as the source of inner resonances, the expression an emotion form (and not an emotion thing), in which all the person’s past experiences and the memories acquired by the soul are present in a virtual manner. During the process of Guidance, in Adult Education, through the suggestions coming from Foucault, Hadot, the Pope Francesco, Olivetti, the creative word is a crucial tool for community practices of self-reflexivity and to promote a sense of partnership. Therefore we can have multiple meanings of the word: word as exegesis and self technology (Foucault, Hadot, Maritain); word understood as «knowing how to behave» (Seneca), generating words (P. Freire), word as agency and a tool for Democratic Practices as Learning Opportunities (Wildemeersch, Mezirow), word as a complex narration (Bruner, Panikkar, Albarea) towards a process of community/ies Building. Words are thus presented as «lights», wandering, diffused lights (and also soffused), for those who know how to make them shine through their own, original tension. An inner/personal tension and an outer/community tension: this is the deep and educational meaning of partnership.
Keywords
Creative word and practices of Guidance, Community/ies building, Self tecnology, Partnership, Different meanings of words.