To outline the characterizing traits of work as an aspect of human education, it is essential to cross the pedagogical reflection diachronically, underlining those plots on which the pedagogical discourse around work is based. Work, a word used to identify both actions related to fatigue and effort, and for activities freely carried out and pleasantly carried out (Totaro, 1998), opens to various interpretative possibilities. Historically, work has had different functions and characterized by different factors. The meaning has therefore changed over time in a very diversified way according to the historical period, the current of thought and the social dynamics of the time. Today's theoretical framework in which the pedagogy of work is inserted is also the result of what has been produced over centuries of reflection; the humanization of work and its necessary recovery are the premises to adequately reread the present.
Per delineare i tratti caratterizzanti del lavoro come aspetto dell’educazione umana è essenziale attraversarne diacronicamente la riflessione pedagogica, sottolineando quelle trame sulle quali si regge il discorso pedagogico intorno al lavoro. Il lavoro, parola questa utilizzata per individuare sia azioni legate alla fatica e allo sforzo, sia per attività liberamente svolte e piacevolmente realizzate (Totaro, 1998), apre a diverse possibilità interpretative. Storicamente il lavoro ha avuto funzioni differenti e caratterizzate da diversi fattori. Il significato si è quindi andato modificando nel tempo in modo molto diversificato a seconda del periodo storico, della corrente di pensiero e delle dinamiche sociali del tempo. L’odierno quadro teorico nel quale si inserisce la pedagogia del lavoro è anche il risultato di quanto prodotto in secoli di riflessione; l’umanizzazione del lavoro e il suo necessario recupero le premesse per rileggere adeguatamente il presente.
Pedagogy of Work: historical reference coordinates
Balzano G
2022-01-01
Abstract
To outline the characterizing traits of work as an aspect of human education, it is essential to cross the pedagogical reflection diachronically, underlining those plots on which the pedagogical discourse around work is based. Work, a word used to identify both actions related to fatigue and effort, and for activities freely carried out and pleasantly carried out (Totaro, 1998), opens to various interpretative possibilities. Historically, work has had different functions and characterized by different factors. The meaning has therefore changed over time in a very diversified way according to the historical period, the current of thought and the social dynamics of the time. Today's theoretical framework in which the pedagogy of work is inserted is also the result of what has been produced over centuries of reflection; the humanization of work and its necessary recovery are the premises to adequately reread the present.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.