Pedagogical Reflections on the Common Good

This chapter investigates the role of education in rethinking territory, community, and citizenship as essential forms of the common good. Within a pedagogical perspective, it emphasizes how these dimensions are not merely physical or administrative constructs, but relational and symbolic spaces where identity, inclusion, and participation are negotiated. In the face of growing inequalities and the privatization of public spaces, the text calls for an educational commitment to reclaim and care for shared places, fostering democratic life and social justice. The concept of the educating community emerges as a concrete response to contemporary crises, promoting active citizenship and collective responsibility. By linking bodies to spaces and people to places, pedagogy becomes a transformative force capable of reimagining the public sphere, strengthening social bonds, and sustaining forms of coexistence based on solidarity, accessibility, and shared belonging.