Sulla diseducazione: note terminologiche per una lettura inattuale

Abstract

Abstract – Pedagogically observing contemporaneity, a widespread “moral and civil miseducation” emerges, which has many causes and is expressed in a heterogeneity of forms that appear to be distant, but part of the same complex phenomenology. Connected to school, communication and politics, the miseducation seems to enclose within itself, in the morphological links of the word, its own interpretative-knowing key: not separable from education, it describes the process and the result of a “bad education”, entering the Italian language at the end of the nineteenth century, when the state school began. Moving from this, the article explores the meanings of the word miseducation and foreign equivalents by considering differences and continuity, then it proposes, in the last part, the possibility of re-reading this concept on the base of the German Verbildung and the thesis of Eduard Spranger concerning the “side effects” of education.