Identità e alterità incarnate. Relazioni e cura nei servizi per l’infanzia in cornice Outdoor Education

In an embodied perspective, the triadic relationship among mind, body, and environment represents the orientation compass for exploring the world and constructing knowledge. In this sense, Outdoor Education becomes the privileged framework for experiences lived in the environment, with the environment, and for the environment, in which the body passes from being a means to a protagonist of the process of the signification of self and otherness. Against this background, the paper illustrates the results of a preliminary study aimed at exploring the representations and opinions of a group of early childhood educators, to reflect on possible training strategies aimed at fostering the development of a professional action that is conscious, effective, and able to promote meaningful educational relationships.

In prospettiva embodied, la relazione triadica tra mente, corpo e ambiente rappresenta la bussola di orientamento per l’esplorazione del mondo e la costruzione della conoscenza. In tal senso, l’Outdoor Education diviene la cornice privilegiata per esperienze vissute nell’ambiente, con l’ambiente e per l’ambiente, strategie di formazione atte a favorire lo sviluppo di un agire professionale consapevole, efficace e capace di promuovere relazioni educative significative.