Educazione (è) amore: Edgar Morin per una pedagogia amorosa, tra relazione e tras-formazione

Abstract

The article argues for the urgency of recognizing the theoretical and practical dignity to love as a pedagogical category, exploring the relationship between education and love and the potential of a “pedagogy of love” that integrates affective, poetic, and relational dimensions. Starting from the recognition of love as a complex and foundational human energy, it analyzes the reasons for its marginality in pedagogical debate, especially in Italy. Through a philosophical-educational reading of selected pages of Edgar Morin, the category of “loving relatedness” is proposed as an educational modality that recognizes and preserves the poetry and mystery of the other, inviting the educator to honor and cultivate the other’s own qualities. Finally, the article examines the formative power of love which, through “theorematic-maieutic action” (Pasolini-inspired), makes the educational encounter a transformative event capable of igniting freedom and fostering the subject’s full humanization.