Corresponsabilità e cura educativa dei genitori nello “zero-sei”: un’esperienza di ricerca e formazione attraversata dalla pandemia

Abstract

This paper focuses on early childhood educators as possible facilitators of educational co-responsibility with families and, therefore, of inclusive educating communities, in line with the PNRR. A research-training with educators from Palermo, which began before the pandemic and was then reformulated, is presented. For this research, a questionnaire was administered in 2019 to investigate three areas from which, according to the literature, obstacles to an effective educational alliance often arise: educators’ understanding of current family education, what educators think parents to be and ideas of co-responsibility. In 2022, an online questionnaire similar to the first was administered, also exploring the lived experiences related to the pandemic. The comparative analysis, carried out using qualitative phenomenological methodology, reveals changes in all the areas investigated. Moreover, the need perceived by educators for parents to receive educational support entails their own need for training to be able to respond to it. Hence the requirement for adequate training in family pedagogy clearly emerges to allow educators to implement their professionalism.