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Record Nr.

UNINA9910416109303321

Autore

Longo Abele

Titolo

Danilo Dolci : Environmental Education and Empowerment / / by Abele Longo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

9783030518530

3030518531

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (85 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education, , 2211-9388

Disciplina

306.09458

Soggetti

Environmental education

Education - Philosophy

Community development

Social service

Educational sociology

Environmental and Sustainability Education

Educational Philosophy

Social Work and Community Development

Sociology of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Why Danilo Dolci Matters to Environmental Education -- Chapter 2. Danilo Dolci’s Life and Work -- Chapter 3. An Ecological Maieutics -- Chapter 4. The Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA) in Practice -- Chapter 5. A Pedagogy of Action -- Chapter 6. An Ecocritical Reading of Danilo Dolci’s Poetry -- Chapter 7. Danilo Dolci’s Legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

The book presents the multi-faceted opus of Danilo Dolci within the framework of Environmental Education, focusing on his work as a grassroots community educator, nonviolent activist and poet. It illustrates Dolci’s ‘Reciprocal Maieutic Approach’, a dialectic method of inquiry that can be defined as a process of collective exploration, taking as point of departure the experience, culture and intuition of individuals, ultimately directed towards the development of citizenship.



Sessions led by Dolci in Sicily from the 1950s to the 1990s gave rise to the development of action plans that aimed to empower individuals, transform communities and, extending far beyond this, towards the planning and implementation of changes that would have a dramatic impact at a global and planetary level.