Friendship, as such, cannot be taught, but you can help adolescents to acquire those virtues which they show of wanting to live on a daily basis in their friendships, experienced vis a vis. The educators, first of all parents and then teachers, in this sense can educate adolescents in friendship, especially by giving them a good example of a friendly life. As friendship — like any intimate relationship — is a social relationship particularly bound to the way in which people communicate with each other, the possibility of educating in friendship to teenagers of today primarily depends on the realization of an inescapable and indispensable condition: that educators accept the challenge of knowing their «relational» sphere, which is largely expressed in the digital world. For this reason, firstly I argue the typical methods by which adolescent boys and girls are today accustomed to manifest «in network» aspects of their personality, details of their identity and to communicate fragments of their intimacy. The teenagers of today, «digital natives», cultivate their social relations in substantially different ways from those used by adolescents of other periods even relatively recent in our history, in which they were accustomed to relating to friends in a «side by side» environment. Secondly, I present a plausible anthropological and ethical friendship profile founded on the experience lived by adolescents and, eventually, the proposal to educate them in friendship within the family and school through effective communication and the example of their parents and teachers.

L'amicizia, in quanto tale, non si insegna, si possono però aiutare gli adolescenti ad acquisire quelle virtù che essi stessi mostrano di voler vivere quotidianamente nelle loro relazioni amicali vissute "vis a vis". Gli educatori, "in primis" i genitori e gli insegnanti, possono in tal senso educare gli adolescenti all'amicizia, innanzitutto dando loro un "buon esempio" di vita amicale. Poiché l'amicizia - come ogni legame intimo - è una relazione sociale particolarmente vincolata al "modo" in cui le persone comunicano tra loro, la possibilità di educare all'amicizia gli adolescenti di oggi dipende innanzitutto dal realizzarsi di una condizione ineludibile e necessaria: che gli educatori accettino la sfida di conoscere la loro sfera "relazionale", che si esplica in buona parte nel mondo "digitale". Per questo, si mostrano in primo luogo, le modalità tipiche con cui oggi i ragazzi e ragazze adolescenti sono abituati a manifestare " in rete" aspetti della loro personalità, dettagli della loro identità e a comunicare frammenti della loro intimità. Gli adolescenti di oggi, " nativi digitali" , coltivano le loro relazioni sociali in modi sostanzialmente diversi da quelli utilizzati dagli adolescenti di altri periodi anche relativamente recenti della nostra storia, in cui questi erano abituati a relazionarsi con gli amici stando "fianco a fianco" con loro. Si presenta, in secondo luogo, un plausibile profilo antropologico ed etico dell'amicizia fondato nell'esperienza vissuta dagli adolescenti e, da ultimo, la proposta di educarli all'amicizia in famiglia e nella scuola mediante la comunicazione efficace e l'esempio da parte dei genitori e degli insegnanti.

DI VITA, A. (2015). Educating adolescents in friendship. Ruzomberok : Verbum.

Educating adolescents in friendship

DI VITA, Alessandro
2015-01-01

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Friendship, as such, cannot be taught, but you can help adolescents to acquire those virtues which they show of wanting to live on a daily basis in their friendships, experienced vis a vis. The educators, first of all parents and then teachers, in this sense can educate adolescents in friendship, especially by giving them a good example of a friendly life. As friendship — like any intimate relationship — is a social relationship particularly bound to the way in which people communicate with each other, the possibility of educating in friendship to teenagers of today primarily depends on the realization of an inescapable and indispensable condition: that educators accept the challenge of knowing their «relational» sphere, which is largely expressed in the digital world. For this reason, firstly I argue the typical methods by which adolescent boys and girls are today accustomed to manifest «in network» aspects of their personality, details of their identity and to communicate fragments of their intimacy. The teenagers of today, «digital natives», cultivate their social relations in substantially different ways from those used by adolescents of other periods even relatively recent in our history, in which they were accustomed to relating to friends in a «side by side» environment. Secondly, I present a plausible anthropological and ethical friendship profile founded on the experience lived by adolescents and, eventually, the proposal to educate them in friendship within the family and school through effective communication and the example of their parents and teachers.
2015
9788056102190
DI VITA, A. (2015). Educating adolescents in friendship. Ruzomberok : Verbum.
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