La pluralizzazione degli attori sociali: una nuova risorsa nella risposta ai bisogni educativi?

Sociological reflections during recent decades have contributed to a clarification of a sustainable welfare model, towards a welfare pluralization approach, based on network/partnership among public, private, third sector, and families. Pluralistic welfare model pursues values and behaviours deemed good and beneficial to the entire community. Social actors working in the field of education, act in networks built on social, supportive, mutual and trust-based relationships. This perspective allows a rethinking of educational processes, considered both as a whole and in the specific actions that qualify them in responding to educational needs. The educational emergency characterizing the last few decades, highlights the risk of what Bauman (2017) has called “retrotopy”. Overcoming this emergency, requires an increase in reflexivity around the concept of education itself. The relational sociological approach allows to highlight educational processes primarily on a cultural level, i.e. observing educational processes as processes of attribution of meaning.