Verso una pedagogia e una didattica della cura per i professionisti dell'educazione: possibilità, tensioni e sfide

Abstract

Abstract – The paper presents reflections in two voices, Italian and Uruguayan, on the importance of care as an element of and in the training of educational professions that work with and in situations of disadvantage, above all in the construction of the professional role but also as a fundamental starting point for thinking of pedagogy and didactics committed to the integral development of the person through the educational relationship. The theme of ‘care’ will be tackled with a pedagogical approach in the educational sphere, particularly in schools and training. Therefore, reference will be made not so much to the health and medical meaning of the term, but rather to what is defined as “authentic care”, which involves the exercise of a relationship in which the educator is able to glimpse the “possibility of being” in “future roles” in people in a disadvantaged situation – specifically with disabilities or prisoners. Considering care as a polysemic concept, we will deepen the need to refer to testimonies of care experiences by giving voice to the “cared for” subjects themselves.