Dire il mondo. Una ricerca fenomenologica sul valore educativo delle parole

The word reveals our relationship with existence, it speaks of drifts and bewilderments or, on the contrary, of firm and conscious existential postures. Lacking words with which to talk about oneself, about one's relationship with the world, is to lack a grip on reality. Whoever dedicates himself to the tasks of education and care should do so by first of all paying attention to the words with which the subject represents himself and his relationship with the reality that surrounds him. But what makes a word educational? Phenomenological-existential pedagogy constitutes the hermeneutic horizon of reference from which the research began. It aimed to verify the validity of its theoretical assumptions by analysing the use of words in some educational services for children