Spazi e tempi dell’educare tra casa e scuola: note di pedagogia fondamentale alla luce della pandemia

Among the most immediate consequences of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to rethink all the spaces of daily life and, therefore, also those of education, particularlly has emerged. The unprecedented difficulties in managing the times and spaces of educating have made it no longer possible to postpone a careful pedagogical reflection on them: from a phenomenological perspective, this means trying to describe, starting from the experiences of lived times and spaces, how much remains essential in the experience of educating between school and home before the pandemic, and what turned out to be accidental or even uneducational. In this perspective, the text launches some ideas for reflection on the value of space and therefore of time in education and, in this way, on the body in education, on the theme of the boundaries between school, family and territory, and finally on the possibilities of a truly participatory and democratic school