La scuola come comunità educante nella pedagogia italiana del secondo Novecento

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a historical reconstruction of the Italian debate in the second half of the twentieth century about the community as the destiny of education and school institution. After the reflections of the immediate post-war period, when the notion of community is combined with the idea of a substantial democracy, there is the idea of a school as educating community suggested by the Faure Report in the seventies. The educational debate on the school as an educating community is very rich of different voices that interpret, during the second half of the twentieth century, a need that is not always satisfied, but that is the sign of a constant attention to the community as an educational resource. The educating community becomes a task for the school of the end of the millennium, a regulatory idea that guides the idea of a possible school reform, to answer to the educational emergencies of an increasingly complex and fragmented society and proposing itself as a center for re-aggregation in view of the common goods.