This contribution explores the growing unsustainability of our time - marked by climatic, environmental, and educational emergencies - by situating these issues within a systemic interpretative framework. In particular, it underscores how the Anthropocene represents a historical epoch in which the impact of human activity on the planet has reached critical thresholds, requiring urgent interdisciplinary reflection, including within the field of pedagogy. The paper calls for a renewed alliance between pedagogy and ecology - conceived not merely as environmental science, but as an ethical and relational paradigm connecting humans, nature, and culture. The focus is placed on potential pathways for ecological literacy in schools. Ecological literacy is not understood as the transmission of content; rather, it involves lived and embodied experiences aimed at fostering a new ethics of coexistence. These pathways seek to cultivate critical thinking, a sense of responsibility, and, above all, relational awareness - also from an intercultural perspective - both in learners and within society as a whole.
Il presente contributo esplora la crescente insostenibilità del nostro tempo, caratterizzato da emergenze climatiche, ambientali ed educative, collocandole all’interno di un quadro interpretativo sistemico. In particolare, si intende sottolineare come l’Antropocene rappresenti una fase storica in cui l’impronta dell’azione umana sul pianeta ha raggiunto livelli critici, richiedendo una riflessione tra i diversi saperi, compresa la pedagogia. Il paper propone un’alleanza tra pedagogia ed ecologia, quest’ultima intesa non solo come scienza ambientale, piuttosto come paradigma relazionale ed etico che connette uomo, natura e cultura. Il focus è posto su possibili percorsi di alfabetizzazione ecologica per la scuola. Per alfabetizzazione ecologica non si intende la trasmissione di contenuti; si tratta, piuttosto, di esperienze vissute e incarnate, mirate a promuovere una nuova etica della coesistenza. Tali percorsi mirano a sviluppare, nei soggetti in formazione e nella società tutta, senso critico, responsabilità e, soprattutto, consapevolezza relazionale, anche in prospettiva interculturale.
Alba, F. (2025). School and Sustainable Relationships: Pedagogical Perspectives for an Ecological and Intercultural Literacy. FORMAZIONE & INSEGNAMENTO, Anno XIII • Numero 3 • 2025, 17-23 [10.7346/-fei-XXIII-03-25_03].
School and Sustainable Relationships: Pedagogical Perspectives for an Ecological and Intercultural Literacy
Fabio Alba
2025-11-01
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This contribution explores the growing unsustainability of our time - marked by climatic, environmental, and educational emergencies - by situating these issues within a systemic interpretative framework. In particular, it underscores how the Anthropocene represents a historical epoch in which the impact of human activity on the planet has reached critical thresholds, requiring urgent interdisciplinary reflection, including within the field of pedagogy. The paper calls for a renewed alliance between pedagogy and ecology - conceived not merely as environmental science, but as an ethical and relational paradigm connecting humans, nature, and culture. The focus is placed on potential pathways for ecological literacy in schools. Ecological literacy is not understood as the transmission of content; rather, it involves lived and embodied experiences aimed at fostering a new ethics of coexistence. These pathways seek to cultivate critical thinking, a sense of responsibility, and, above all, relational awareness - also from an intercultural perspective - both in learners and within society as a whole.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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