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Copyright of Orientamenti Pedagogici is the property of Pontificio Ateneo Salesiano (Facoltà di Scienze dell'Educazione dell'Università Pontificia Salesian) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This article presents several points for reflection on the value of time in education, based on the movement “Slow Education” and some reflections by the reflections of the pedagogue J. Domènech. The proposal focuses on the need to reconstruct alliances between time and education beginning with respect for the rhythms of learning of each child and shifting attention from the content to be transmitted to that of the skills to be trained. It includes involving families to collaborate with the school to improve the quality of the formation offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article creates a dialog between Pope Francis' perspective, which sees encounter as a reality of anthropological and theological depth, and the spiritual educational experience of Saint John Bosco and Saint Mary D. Mazzarello. The points that emerge not only show how the two perspectives enrich each other reciprocally, but also open the way for further reflection on the pedagogical meaning of encounter as a privileged place for education as well as an efficacious living of the Salesian Preventive system of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the contribution of the Association Mediterranean without Handicap NGO to the study of health and disability considered as an ethical and anthropological issue besides being a social and medical one. From the perspective of human rights, disability is conceived as an important point of view umafor observing human beings through categories such as autonomy and dependency, equality and difference. This view also allows for a better understanding of citizenship for persons with disabilities, identifying appropriate strategies to realize it in different life contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article re-reads personalized attention given to poor and abandoned youth, a central characteristic of the Preventive System of Don Bosco, in the light of conceptual paradigms of this special pedagogy, such as integration, inclusion, "special normal behaviors" and "special educational needs". The aim of this article is to encourage dialogue between several principles of the Salesian method with some instances of today's pedagogical discourse, bringing out helpful and practical proposals for educators today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study highlights the correspondence between proposal strategies and evangelizers of the first announcement of the Gospel in the light of the characteristic methodological choices of the Salesian Preventive System centered as it is on the religious dimension of young people. In fact, in his educational work, St. John Bosco wanted the proposal of the Gospel message to be inserted in, not isolated from, concrete existence, and grafted onto the growth processes of the young people themselves. In this study, the Preventive System is presented as a privileged space or strategy for carrying out the first announcement of the Gospel, understood at the possibility of kindling, or rekindling in the young the spark of interest in Jesus Christ through the witnessing and exemplary presence of the educator and of the Christian community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article highlights the relationship between Don Bosco the educator with the preventive pedagogy so as to show its similarities and originalities in respect to the pedagogy adopted in his times. From the beginning of his work, Don Bosco is convinced both of the value of preventive education in society, and of the need for a preventive methodology in educational practice. These presuppositions are the ground in which his proposal develops and matures, becomes consolidated in the "Preventive System". This method is formed by the "preventive criteria" that illuminates it and orients it, generating a characteristic "way" of being educators. It is thinking of young people and their formation, and conceiving the educating community in convergent action around a project contextualized in reality, interacting with the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]