La relazione scuola-famiglia tra irresponsabilità e corresponsabilità

Abstract

Abstract – The school-family relationship is considered central in children education, but it is often connoted by misunderstandings or erroneous representations that make it miseducational. Starting from the construction of responsibility as defined by Levinas, this paper explores the different ways of understanding co-responsibility between teachers and parents, which do not eliminate differences and ambiguities between the different educational roles and tasks. Conversely, they may value them within a symmetrical and supportive interaction. Following the principle of subsidiarity which should characterize the educational system, family and school need new boundaries and spaces for sharing a more effective pedagogical perspective, where their collaboration is not limited to the institutional dimension but opens to a deeper and non-ideological reflection on the meanings of adult educational responsibilities today.