LIBRI DI FABRIZIO BERTOLINO

Maria Montessori e la sua pedagogia continuano ad essere più che mai al centro di un continuo interesse, di cui i saggi qui pubblicati danno conto. Grazie all’ausilio di fonti in precedenza poco considerate – soprattutto corrispondenze epistolari e riviste pedagogiche – il volume evidenzia primariamente i principali canali, le personalità e le figure di riferimento, che hanno favorito, non senza contrasti e difficoltà, l’affermarsi e il diffondersi della pedagogia montessoriana in Italia e all’estero.

In the last issue of Culture della sostenibilità an article appeared L’educazione ambientale nelle università italiane: attori, modelli, contenuti, ricerche (Bertolino, Messina, Perazzone, Salomone, 2007), that offered an overview of educational offerings within Environmental Education in Italian Universities. This article re-addresses and deepens the analysis of the results of research conducted between University lectures in Environmental Education that involved them directly through telephone interviews. The analysis of the closed response questions within the questionnaire and the spoken interviews paints a clearer picture of the different approaches to teaching, the net of relations within the territory and the scientific community, research interests followed and expectations for the future. In this field the academic panorama is in continuous evolution and the continuous comparison between teachers both within the discipline and with those in others is fundamental.

This research on Italian universities and environmental education started in the 2004. The first phase led to characterize a group of teachers belonging to many fields (biologists, geologists, ecologists, educationalists, geographers) not existing in Italy a specific field of reference for those who care of EE convinced that the EE could represent an opportunity of confrontation for the universities. In a new phase, we interviewed many university teachers of EE about their vision of the EE, their values, their trans-disciplinary collaborations, their pedagogical approach, their researches in the field of the EE, their biography etc. An analysis and a commentary of the interviews are appearing in a forthcoming paper.