Pedagogical ideas for schools at a crossroads4
Giorgio Crescenza, Maria Grazia Riva
The hypothesis underlying this contribution aims to highlight how, in the history of the complex events concerning the Italian educational system from the 1960s to the present day, there has been a basic contradiction in operation. This was expressed in a dualism between the ideals of equality and democracy decreed and guaranteed by the new 1948 Constitution coming into force and the continuation, in the administrative apparatus and in the mentality of teachers and society in general, of culturally backward concepts inspired by traces of a hierarchical vision of social relations. Quality education for all and for each child, which motivated the best of schooling in the 1960s, risks at times seeming an illusion, an ideological blunder, a dream of unrealistic egalitarianism. Schools need to get back into motion, to regain their driving character for the development of society and opportunity of mobility for youth. Questions that today are not taken for granted, due to no hypothesis of reform, and that would require a convergent effort by the whole of civil and political society, starting from a strong investment in the training of teachers and head teachers.
Keywords
School, Reforms, Competences, Pandemic, Training, Life-long Learning.
