Journal title EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE
Author/s A cura della Redazione
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/26
Language Italian Pages 85 P. 17-101 File size 755 KB
DOI 10.3280/EDS2016-026003
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Under the same sky. Fragility, education, contemporaneity. The papers in this section of the journal are based on discussions from the conference "Sotto lo stesso cielo. Fragilità, educazione, contemporaneità" [Under the Same Sky. Fragility, education, contemporaneity] held at the University of Milano-Bicocca in December 2015. At this event, the research groups IRACLIA-Narrative and writing practices in educational and healthcare contexts and Adult Condition and Educational Processes [Condizione Adulta e Processi Formativi] (scientific coordinator: Micaela Castiglioni-University of Milano-Bicocca) set out to explore the theme, or rather, the issue of adult fragility in the contemporary era, with a view to identifying its particular "lights and shadows" and areas of fullness versus emptiness. In so doing, we felt that it was of key importance to adopt a multidisciplinary approach matching the multifaceted nature and diverse range of adult experience, while nevertheless retaining a strongly educational and pedagogical perspective. Is it possible to support fragile subjects and to contain the experience of fragility common to all, by means of educational and, where appropriate, narratively oriented action? Furthermore, is it feasible for us to engage with, and creatively and generatively challenge, discourse on the education and care of contemporary adults from our own condition of fragility as distinct from vulnerability? These are some of the questions that oriented our discussions and are taken up again in the current papers. From a transcultural viewpoint, the virtue of fragility is well portrayed in the eternal myth of Antigone, who, in contrast with Oedipus’ going unknowingly to meet his fate, was mindful and deliberate in her behaviour, defied the law of men and bravely chose to expose her own fragility. The virtue of fragility, of which Antigone is an emblematic figure, sums up and defines a way of thinking that renews itself by drawing on experience. Fragility also entails an awareness of one’s own condition that is the essence of the human condition itself. In turn, these qualities foster self-knowledge and knowledge of the world, and encourage a flexible mode of thinking that is open to the thinking of others, thereby maintaining its own vitality. This is because the awareness of being fragile invites us to seek out new experiences and to "give ourselves a break" by accepting temporary and provisional truths that are related to specific situations and times in our lives, before reasserting our "editorial control". It is difficult to remain mindful of our fragility throughout our concrete being in relationships and in the world, even more so in the context of the relations between women and men, which have undergone great change but as yet lack new models and pathways. Being aware that we are fragile, becoming conscious of our own incompleteness and recognizing our dependence on the other prepares us to accept that we can never fully get to know, or gain mastery over, ourselves.
Keywords: Fragility, vulnerability, care, adulthood, education, virtue, Antigone, courage in exposing one’s fragility, dependence, relations between the sexes.
A cura della Redazione, Sotto lo stesso cielo. Fragilità, educazione, contemporaneità in "EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE" 26/2016, pp 17-101, DOI: 10.3280/EDS2016-026003