Crescere partecipando. Contesti e prospettive educative per il sistema 0-6

Adopting a participative paradigm, based on a well-defined idea of the child and on a solid pedagogical culture (which restores value to childhood but also to relationships and contexts), can be a common device for creating an authentic 0-6 pathway. In participation, care and learning are reconciled, because they are integrated in an idea of the child as a competent and active subject, nourished by bonds and affects. The integrated 0-6 education system can create this form of participation that makes people grow and produces culture. This requires the assumption of an organisational structure that acts as a true mediator of relational processes, inspired by an idea of childhood and education and a culture of participation. This approach makes it possible to raise awareness of the functional interdependencies between the structuring of spaces and times, between organisational structures and value systems, between the preparation of experiences and the transmission of rules. By flowing into a shared planning, the promotion of a participatory culture can contribute to transforming subjects and contexts, but also to changing the paradigm of knowledge construction, seeking it in listening and dialogue rather than in monologue. The book, in short, inscribes participation in a broader pedagogical perspective, which urges the valorisation of the 0-6 services as laboratories of citizenship and democratic forums, through which it is possible to co-construct a new culture of childhood and its education.