Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Topless And Bottomless Beaches

E 'flower garden: good year


flourishes Camellia, hundreds of buds from the tip of pink flowers that open many long resist before the fall, and flowers of pale blue rosemary, and flowers of the purple milkweed, rare flowers, which fade between indigo and green door the bougainvillea and finally the little rose on a slender stalk with no leaves. Large light green leaves shows off the Monster and towers - still rolled up - the big leaf philodendron rise up to the first floor of the house.
is a flowering of new year.
After the solstice the sun begins, rising in the sky, the path to new life: plants feel this year even before the call astral.
In one corner there is a small Japanese maple that is another example of the winter that has not won at all: it has lost the little red leaves of autumn, and still retain some green leaves. The most beloved, remember the landscapes of Japan visited almost fifty years before and the favorite colors of autumn. Perhaps the last external image before closing itself, the attachment to the world's last words: "He still has all the leaves" I had brought into the room, in front of her because she saw her. In the garden was empty chair where still two weeks before, the warmth of a winter sun had sat contemplating the buds of the camellia, which pushed to exit. Now everything is blooming, she and I knew that these early blooms are swept in a single night of icy wind, but in the meantime they give you hope, peace and the desire to protect them as much as possible.
The flowers and the garden with her and talk to our soul, with the way in which a group of people tried and tries to flower in the chill of secret gardens desolate souls. Carla had written in one of his most dense in which to return us all the way events are often too hard to manage to leave room for joy. This paper refer to all friends can appreciate it and also to all those who, without knowing they are doing everything to destroy the possibility that such experiences can continue.

I wish all those who still remind me of a number of Carla and her life that this bloom is a message of Happy New Year.


Being There (Carla Melazzini)
"I stole a garden," said heavily-It 's mine. It is not no one else. No one wants it, nobody cares, nobody goes in there. Maybe all the plants have dried, do not know ...
Nobody has the right to take, because I'm the only person who cares. The others, no. The others keep locked up and let him die! "... ..
"A secret garden?" Colin said, "What do you mean? Explain "
" But do not you understand? "said Mary, cobble together the words" do not understand that if the history of the garden we know only two ... and you could find the door, we could go together in secret, and nobody would know that we have inside? We could call our garden, and you could go and play together, to work the land, to revive the flowers ... "
..." It 'was the magical force that is in this garden that made me stand up and made me realize that I can grow into a man! " (F.Burnett-The Secret Garden)

From the "Dictionary of Symbols"
"The garden is a place of growth, the growing phenomena of life and interiors. .. The wall of the garden retains the internal forces that flourish.
There is penetrated only through a narrow gate, which is often the dreamer should try driving around the garden. It 'the expression in mental images of very long evolution that has reached a remarkable wealth of inside .. The garden can be an allegory of the ego when the center is a large tree or a fountain .. Very often represents per l’uomo la parte sessuale del corpo femminile. Ma, con l’allegoria del piccolo giardino paradisiaco, i canti religiosi dei mistici esprimono molto più del semplice amore e della sua incarnazione, essi cercano e lodano ardentemente il centro più intimo dell’anima”.

Il racconto dell’atelier 2002 di Caroline è di straordinario interesse. Esso è un assemblaggio di due componenti: un sintetico diario di bordo in forma di appunti, e la ricostruzione orale fatta a parecchi mesi di distanza nell’intervista con Rita. Colpiva in quest’ultima che, dopo tanto tempo e quando i muri della scuola erano ancora tutti coperti dai beautiful works of the boys, but the feelings with which Caroline recounted the experience was still so bad, evoked the desert, destructiveness, bankruptcy. While the eye is evident outside the originality and richness of a kind of initiatory path led in the most stormy, where driving is largely unaware of the extent of travel and yet is oriented with the instinct and sensibility , thereby giving the boys to develop a theme without disintegrating shocking.
Why the subject, of which Caroline - by his own admission - can not do without, and that leads to school at the beginning of the year despite his reflections on past experiences is one of the most powerful metaphors created by mankind, that fills religions and mythologies, fairy tales and legends arts literature: the garden. Submit it as an object-heavy, ten pounds of soil in a pot, put in the center of the studio - with a dozen teenagers from a guy who, for culture and life experience, has almost no ability to recognize, control and process emotions, gestures and immediately translated into action. The object is therefore attacked and damaged: the boys are unaware of the gardens - so say - but the symbolic capture of the object: sexuality, identity, growth, expansion and enclosure, secrecy ... .. in the apparent chaos of this year's art studio, it is always present, constantly re-emerges, ties together all stages of the path.
The vaso-garden is at the center of the war between the sexes, the rich texture of trade and implies that everyone can have fun reading, from the intimate relationship between emotions and colors, then shapes, all highly symbolic birds , trees, fountains and Earth, the object of a real war attack (the flower bed that makes us so ferocious). Why men claim the right to abstraction, from their separate table from which to launch their female characters "construction"? E ' just because girls draw better, or because the females have already learned to give form to the formless and they do not have the courage? And the fascinating figure of the taciturn Enzo, that mixing the colors for the girls acts as a ferry between the two fronts, and does the mysterious act of painting the towers and put them in the garden, thus forcing the teacher to put it back to the center: guy is probably the first to grasp the symbolic representation of all that takes place in quell'atelier painting around the vase-garden, and is very satisfied. Caroline writes that he moved.
The path culminates with Adam and Eve. Caroline writes: "Males females and very active, very few sexual jokes. It seems that the ancestors bring respect. "
In fact, Adam and Eve are not just ancestors, but the ancestors, and Eden is the archetype of the gardens. The size becomes sacred, here is the exciting action of the one that mixes all the colors in a gray mud and the appointment of "First Garden": the boy who may communicate on behalf of all the awareness of a transformation, beginning of which was the chaos of vague emotions. After the garden, it is possible that Caroline Gianluca entrusts the story of Eden, a young man who took the vows of Monaco is the most disturbing for adolescents, yet these ex-destroyers gardens can question him on the desire and temptation. How
wonder at year end, the question of Caroline on what had been the heart of their work, boys and girls respond in unison "The Garden"?

Sunday, December 20, 2009

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The lady who does not speak

continue to get messages from different places and times that have been touched by Carla, thank you all collectively, but because I'm recording each message I want to answer everyone individually. Especially the fact that moves me many people who know us only through the words we're spending in various places of communication, write and complain of this loss, is a sign of how much we need people to create bonds and brotherhood with the testimony of life before with any right struggle.
I especially thank those who have raised in network news that we are spreading, Marco Rossi Doria, Luca Sofri, Adriano Sofri, Daniela Lepore and decide together, and especially thank the correspondent for the Corriere della Sera that the Marco Imarisio 18 days to review of "Front Page" of RAI Tre had the courage to read 'an article written not' relate to the life and death of Carla.
To give opportunity to the many who loved Carla in life and are experiencing that now the Association of Masters Road, which I chair has decided to publish a review of the writings of Carla when they are edited and organized presentations in different cities to give opportunity for more people to share in a joyful and constructive one that Carla has left us. For this reason, opened a subscription that has already reached € 1500.
The subscription will remain open for a long time to finance all activities related to this publication. Your credit card information are Masters Road ONLUS (Banca Sella Sud - IBAN: IT39 O 0304903400052886631730)

Republic December 19, 2009

Carla, a life like Chance

the evening of December 14 has been extinguished Carla Melazzini teacher for eleven years in the Chance project that seeks to recover those who did not go to school. His family came from a small valley between "Bergamo" and the Valtellina. From the far north, passing through Pisa, where he met and married the writer has arrived at Naples and devoted the forty best years of his life to bringing this city in the places of exclusion and suffering a culture of openness, accompanied by a strength-based human deep respect for the humble and simple. The liquidity in the mountain fastness of a lifetime urban degradation. At first they called 'the svezzese' a mixture of Swiss and Swedish but then he was loved and respected place without adjectives.
be great and humble at the same time is the force that led to unite around him 'students who meet in the worst streets of Naples' and social scientists from different backgrounds, to have respect for the mayor of the city as merchants of the place they call 'the lady who does not speak' words that do not apostrophizes taking advantage of a relationship of dependency merchant. It has taken her to lead by example with many different professionals: young educators, parents, social help a'raffreddare i conflitti’, docenti, psicologi, artigiani che aiutava nel ritrovare un senso anche nelle situazioni più caotiche o dopo le esperienze più frustranti.
La mattina del 16 nella Chiesa del Soccorso di San Giovanni centinaia di persone che lei aveva unito in vita erano raccolte in un silenzio attonito a testimoniare quello che dovrebbe essere una comunità civile capace di educare i giovani. E abbiamo visto quanto questa donna, insieme a tante sue colleghe e colleghi stanno dando a questa città ed a questo paese perché riconquisti i livelli essenziali di civiltà.
Nella sua casa di Corso San Giovanni - portate dai passi delle persone, dai telegrammi, dalla posta elettronica - sono arrivate le testimonianze di quanti in Italia l’hanno known and are seeing through the testimony of those who continue his work.
There were also words of solidarity by the institutions, the mayor of Naples, the governor of Campania, by the Regional education.
The writer hopes that this rare moment of unity will help individuals and authorities to understand that the real world, what is worth living, is not partisan representations, it is simply done by men and women who identify themselves as such and that love through people who know better recognize and respect their humanity. Cesar Moreno

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Sore And Tender Breasts

A fraternal farewell



the morning of December 16 Aid to the Church of St. John's was packed up to the outside.
An astonished crowd was close in total silence about the body of Carla,
In the front row there, as is proper, but immediately after the close relatives were the joint in the law of human solidarity, there were our best students, as subsidiary of origin hailing from the worst streets of Naples, and was full of brothers and sisters.
Carla has been a master for many professions have learned from her teachers, parents, social workers, administrators, teachers, artisans, experts and psychologists. She guided them with the power of example but above all he could guide them because everyone has heard his gaze friend, personal respect. Even those who have only touched, our neighbors, mechanics, traders felt the aura of solidarity, "the lady who does not speak," which does not take advantage of the temporary condition of dependence on the trader for apostrophe and humiliate him.
And all these were present, the funeral was worthy of her: there were those who had returned word and the right to express themselves and those - teachers, principals and managers - that the word they use it as a profession, those who know how to help social instinct as parents and those who do it as professional psychologists, the craftsmen who know how to help children with their actions and doing, educators who know how to do them even using the word and sharing.
Then there were other brothers and sisters. There were the Little Sisters of Jesus, the sisters of her sister. A contemplative order who lives in the middle of the poorest suburbs of the entire world, here in Naples they also attended the worst alleys: first the cabins Marinella, then the barracks vertical District Friendship, now the Lotto Zero. In a very different way street were teachers long before us. Carla has made known to me and introduced me to contemplate that for me was an unknown word, and has taught me that the desert we learn more than from any other experience that the desert and not to be found in Africa, there are urban deserts made of the absence of relations and respect and that is where we must maintain its integrity. So every time I see the skirts of the little sisters jeans, their uniform of workers of another time, I see myself Carla introduces me to the knowledge of the desert, it shows me the roses of sand, that makes me see photo of Charles de Foucault. So are sisters where Carla has learned that you can maintain integrity even under extreme and difficult.
And then came from all over Italy many of our comrades, those events with which we were almost every day, roadblocks, scuffles and above all did great escapes and Busch many beatings. Carla has had many male friends who loved her as brothers and that they considered especially as a person. Certainly not seen as asexual, but they had a fraternal and comradely respect and vice versa she never acted or submitting please the male gender. Woman who was so no one has ever dared to treat her as a girl. So these were brothers arrived from all over Italy and many others have made themselves felt with e-mail messages and memories. And above all there was a large delegation of Forli in the newspaper - a city - she has worked with great participation.
And then there was the marriage, four grandchildren with spouses Sondrio representing fourteen great-grandchildren. The parental relationships wither because they are often taken for granted, but Carla and her sisters have grown systematically, so that the aunt and great aunt were what they should be for all: other holders of parental care that being in a tight angle can help and advise in a way complementary to the parent.
And then there were the in-laws for my part, my four brothers and their children and even those who knew Carl as a person with his friend that there seemed to be a cardinal point guard. And the new parents of young people who are married, a daughter from Poland, Russia acquired by a granddaughter, a sister-French, French-Italian nephew. So summarizing
there were people from all over Italy, from the far north through Tuscany and Lazio, Emilia and there were people from Japan, Russia, Peru, and came home to messages from many other parts of the world and of 'Italy.
So for a moment to Teduccio San Giovanni (the one in my childhood was labeled 'San Giovanni' atterraciuccio 'were so battered in the streets) has become the center of the world, the center of a network that stretched over the city, on 'Italy and on three continents, and the center of these bonds was Carla.
E 'was easy for me to tell her that Carla had certainly reached the Garden of Eden, which also did not believe in an afterlife can we believe in what's here, and that is in our midst. The miracle of the revival we have seen, I see as the thousand voices that I feel gives me a picture of her richer than the rich that I had already known and this puts me in debt with all these people and I write for them well for me. It 's a paradox in the life of Carla did not want his name to be exposed in any way and instead the amount of people who speak that name is enormous, her confidence has been so radical as to become public, his celibate way of loving as a sister is known to many. The last book that advised me to read is "The Antigone" by George Steiner, an extraordinary book that is the sisterhood of Sophocles dall'Antigone starting a character for whom we have shared an intense passion.
So on this day we are united in a focal point of many lines of force that we have returned a hologram of Carla, the materialization of an idea shared. This is very comforting for me and helps everyone still had his strength, and that is what in many ways and I will try we will do in time to come.
But allow me one personal note: when all have left their heart in taking part, I return to see an empty room and I can not say to my loved how beautiful it is what is happening and that I can not accept it.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Break Thruin Dry Macular Degeneration

Carla, the mistress of the road and our teacher is gone

She's gone Carla.
His body lies here beside me cold after a long illness well lived.
We had our last swim in the sea on August 28, early in the morning because he could not take the hot sun because of chemotherapy, when the beach is deserted, the pale sky, the sea flat as soon ruffled by waves minute that break in silence. Is this enough to make her feel good, to make them forget worries and struggles, and illness. It was the same calm as a child he had seen in the waters of Pirlo, the tough Valmalenco a mountain lake, where the sky was mirrored by joining the earth. He wanted me to see the Pirlo and she had shot all the interior valleys of Valtellina and climbed some icy peaks.
I had also brought in Val Mother, a narrow valley where the wild and believed to have its true roots: a few houses in ruins perched on the high side of the river Madrasco, a small abandoned cemetery where Melazzini, and other family assonant , were masters. From this valley were the proud ancestors, those who were fighting with the wind, those who fought with the iron hammer hydraulics, those who do not speak a word too often and even the essential ones. The portraits of these ancestors, such as the grandfather 'master cheesemaker' are in our room in a niche in the wall built hundreds of years before we do not know why, but it became our altar to the Lares and Penati. There's also a portrait of Uncle Bruno The Alpine has heroically taken the retreat from Russia without leaving his men and supporting her in every way, the uncle of the ironic portraits by Teresa Argentina went away to write funny stories in Valtellina dialect, pictures of Joan who lives in Japan and the Garden of Stone, Louise and his son Elvis Peruvian, and that of a school class in Peru, consisting of an old bench seat in a field to four meters high in the background of seven thousand of the Andes.
In other parts of the house, the windows of the library, there are other portraits: Freud, Nietzsche, Leopardi, Konrad, Dante, Tolstoy. Others would have made if they had at hand, such as Dostoevsky, ... Melville.
These and many others were his roots, food lines cha bring out into space, over time, but especially in the depths of the soul, in those areas where the complexity and complication of the real bow to the simplest emotions, where we find ancient fears, pain dormant. Carla stubbornly guarded these spaces from any invasion, by his own invasion. His favorite writers, explorers of the depths were used to visit these places through a third person to talk to itself, to me mate and his sons , without explicitly naming their pain.
and had to force herself to have children, to express through the flesh una speranza ed una promessa che l’animo le impediva.  Prendere possesso della sua capacità di generazione è stata una fatica durata anni, e prendere possesso pieno della sua femminilità è stato ancora più difficile, è durato fino a  pochi anni orsono.  Negli anni dell’università la sua ritrosia era passata in proverbio, ha scoraggiato corteggiatori eccellenti con poche secche parolacce che lasciavano di stucco il pretendente che si aspettava da una persona riservata e diafana nell’aspetto parole miti e gentili. Come ‘capo’ del movimento degli studenti era così determinata che gli avversari non trovarono di meglio che scrivere sui muri gigantesche scritte ironiche on his behalf. The determination to assert their identity against any attempt to sew them wearing a suit brought to be one of the few if not the only one to leave the Scuola Normale di Pisa and voluntarily declared incompatible with a way of doing culture far from reality.
All admired his strength, his stubborn determination to assert the simple things and she could not stand him, he could not bear that others have so much confidence in her, she would not authorize anyone to do it yet because every time he did it systematically after what I called 'waves of optimism' - in reality gloomy pessimistic forecasts - with a few simple words and return to the path followed was all the more as he had doubted the opportunity to advance. And then protested, but he allows them to trust? Carla
Death is like the death of a thousand-year plan, mute and motionless witness of events that in his view, they are ephemeral and together nourished by what is happening around, the passing of the seasons, the warmth of the sun, the force of the earth. When he dies a similar plan for a long time nothing grows in the grooves once occupied by vital roots, but with time everything becomes a new life. I hope that happens for us and that those who loved her possano continuare a nutrirsi della sua forza.
Cesare

Thursday, December 10, 2009

In Cold Blood Rhetorical

Development education by promoting personal growth

Educare allo sviluppo promuovendo la crescita personale
L’educazione è indivisibile , possiamo guardarla da angolazioni sociali diverse e immaginare molte educazioni, ma se stiamo al centro della relazione educativa, se stiamo a fianco della persona che cresce, l’educazione è unica ed indivisibile. Questo il messaggio che chi scrive, Cesare Moreno - qualificandosi a ragione di una vita spesa in tal modo, come ‘ Maestro di Strada ’ - porta qualsiasi sia il contesto o l’occasione in cui viene richiesta la sua testimonianza. Quella che segue è la declinazione che ne aveva given at the training seminar for teachers
"The Role of Development
in training opportunities for the formation of citizens more aware and critical"
which was held in Naples on 14 December 2009 and sent to March to bureaucratic difficulties. Plays it with some modifications to remind myself and all the people who are working hard in a new company, what are the primary reasons of our commitment

Educating the development or production development, the development work? ;
This question can be repeated verbatim for each "in education ... ". Educating for peace or act of peace? Educating for democracy or democracy do? And, more generally, we should ask ourselves whether in terms of philosophical and linguistic education is legitimate or an adjective indicating a limited scope of even the noble and universal, and whether it is permissible to use education for the plural form 'the education'. Education
means getting out and about use of the reflexive form because, by definition, being educated about the activities of the subject than himself. We can also call education as the activities to come out from the existing frames. This would be enough to include a series infinita di educazioni: l’educazione allo sviluppo, alla pace, all’intercultura, alla convivenza, al rispetto del genere etc…
Se consideriamo che una delle definizioni di educazione allo sviluppo riguarda la promozione di sensibilità verso la cooperazione internazionale con il sud del mondo vediamo subito che anche in questo caso l’educazione riguarda innanzi tutto la crescita di sé, la maturazione di una capacità di vedere se stessi in un processo globale di interazioni vicine e lontane. L’individuo non è negazione o opposizione al gruppo e alle comunità (da quella vicina alla più vasta comunità globale), l’individuo  è invece l’espressione più alta relationality: the ability to be themselves as connected and supported by a dense network of ties. And these links are much richer than the greater a person's ability to imagine other things.
The ability to develop relationships is linked to the possession of key skills that allow me to cast his eyes far beyond the limits of the visible. And 'I must be able to portray the other and to know him and consider his point of view even before meeting him. So you need a space in thought, a chance to maneuver within the mind which admits el'accomodamento - Domestication - New thoughts. This is education: exit out of the existing frames is the same thing to accept new thoughts, but also means to get out of oneself and one from the existing security.
education brings with it a dimension of risk and danger because it requires a systematic and consolidated to leave secure positions. E 'is therefore essential that the next person who grows, there is someone to generate confidence, indicating that the sure way, it is essential that there is a relationship of trust in others, or at least some figures.
space for new thoughts is the ability to feel protected by people who are already grown, we consider people in safe areas. And here in a sense closes a circle, because you can get out of the frames having trust in others, but to have trust in me I need to get out and that scares me.
How to establish a communication, something common, even before they can understand and speak?
as it may seem extravagant, the first communication resource at our disposal is the expression of pain. Expressing a painful condition shall immediately notify the other a request for cooperation to which we are naturally sensitive to immediate and unreflective identification. Any other human behavior - constructive, active, beneficial - it is direct or indirect subsidiary of aggression and as such ordered to break the defensive barriers against others. The pain, the position of those who feel depressed need help, is also the position of accepting new thoughts, new representations of the other. ;
So the expansion of the self, the ability to consider the inhabitants of the world coincides with the welcome opportunity to see my fears and my doubts about the possibility of advancing in the world. Development education is closely linked to growth itself. And vice versa, a lack of sensitivity to the breath of the world, his good physical health, well-being of its inhabitants is an indicator a person suffering in the mirror.
This view allows you to establish a close connection between 'peripheries' of the world, the social peripheries, suburbs of the mind. There are exclusion zones and interdict where we do not want us or bring us, are the areas of suffering without hope, those in which we lose ourselves as men. Most of 'Civilization and its Discontents' comes from the attempt to keep out of our identity that goes beyond a linear rationality: emotions and feelings that act - and we act - without our knowledge and out of control, and keep us out and away from areas of the city - suburbs and ghettos - where we think that the primary emotions are the masters, and areas of the world that are prey to the emotions caused by the dissatisfaction of the most basic needs.
What scares us of poverty, hunger, social exclusion are the emotions that can trigger uncontrolled that are the same that we can scarcely check. All the teenagers who find themselves in unknown drives and I'm afraid, are the most radical to merge or stay away compulsively imagine the horror that these areas of social and governments around the world. Adolescents who live physically immersed in the areas of exclusion and degradation can combine their desire to educate themselves - to pull out of the existing frame - with a violent rage and hatred toward those who embody the basic instincts, or vice versa, may quiet down slip into decay.
It 's very difficult to recognize in so aggressive a teenager - or depressed and locked in a voiceless opposition in the world - a desire for change, a push to identify with those who share - in every corner of the world and in every corner of conscience - its painful reality. A person is too concerned with their own pain, too invaded by anger has no room to accommodate more and more. Our
work of 'masters of the road' then consists in this, being able to establish a relationship and then a space of thought to develop their own pain and thus capable of being opened in that time communicating with each other.
In this sense we make explicit 'development education' that we try to establish a systematic correlation between the growth of self and the growth of relations between the growth of knowledge and growth of the ability to feel the breath of the world.
Concretely, this means taking a path to citizenship and citizenship education but not the practice of citizenship: a set of opportunities and practical knowledge where it takes place - here and now - being a citizen. In fact, education is not - and can not be - a school subject, but it is a practical activity which itself becomes immediate learning, change in behavior.
Citizenship is not a laboratory and a lecture , are all occasions when you pick up your own destiny, is brought about a 'surveillance' on their own behavior and thought. Join a "circle time "where it talks about the mutual relationships and behaviors among students, a seemingly self-centered practice is actually the first practice citizenship, one in which the ability to thought and speech is compared with the existence of other people. You must have made this practice, seeing how much resistance and difficulties young people have to go in order to understand what it is rather important in a process of appropriation of the self and relationships with the world. There are young people who can not even participating in such a practical element and we must consider them seriously ill, not an organic disease or mental, but certainly a serious disease of sociability that does not bring anything good to them or to the community which they live. From this point
primary and immediate branching paths of citizenship: young people are called to participate in the design of their own path through 'focus groups' and moments of meeting, are called every day to self-evaluate their presence, are routinely called upon to prove to themselves what they are capable. Finally systematically engaged in social communication activities (exhibitions, meetings, events, etc. ..) are called to meet other (meetings with young people who are engaged in voluntary social work, community meetings with other visitors to the city ...) are invited to learn about the institutions meet in the towns and places of their own and are called to assume responsibility practices through education at par. And much more that turns the school-type learning in social skills and to spend in everyday life, active citizenship, in the exercise of professions.
In this regard it is always good to review some of the founding documents, such as the European recommendation for the development of key skills. In that document, for example, a connection is made between disciplinary learning and life skills - personal development, active citizenship, employability - that should always be present in every moment of our work in education and training. In that document is called the fundamental difference between knowledge and skills in mind that they are 'appropriate to the context', which - we would add - is a context of relationships, cultures, events and facts that require interaction, processes, mediation rather than apodictic statements.

"Master street " expresses most succinctly the idea of \u200b\u200bimaginative and close interaction with the contexts of life, and the need to spend for young people starting from where they are. In this sense it refers to the ancient masters on one side of the road, not perched examples of wisdom that exist in all cultures, on the other the most modern and advanced framework for educational systems. And in both directions requires a new educational professionalism that must be supported by a professional association that we seek to represent the Association of Masters Road.
The key point to promote all three aspects of personal development is an adult group, consisting of professionals with different skills, which acts as a reference group of friendly, capable of giving young people the confidence and leadership skills they need . Those who learn to accept is acceptable, including those who are learning to understand, those who are helped to grow helps development. The adult group, through reciprocity - mutual respect, cooperative exchange, creative collaboration - enables a circular process of growth that extends 'the world'.

So this is an indication simple and yet difficult to pursue a development education: helping each to grow, to become master of himself, feeling part of a broader community, and this gives the young person growing the option to 'return' the community that raised him what he received by being supportive and enabling behaviors able to connect the 'global South' because it is connected to the south of its own.

All this has been experienced for 11 years in the project and secure and widespread by Chance associazione professionale  che unisce docenti, educatori, formatori. Attualmente è in corso un nuovo esperimento consistente nel portare queste pratiche in dodici scuole della provincia di Napoli. Questo esperimento, finanziato interamente dalla Regione Campania, sta verificando la possibilità di far funzionare una delle classi delle scuole prescelte in modo sperimentale e finalizzato a recuperare i giovani che hanno trovato particolarmente difficile inserirsi nel funzionamento scolastico ordinario. Dall’interazione della scuola con questo esperimento dovrebbe nascere una riflessione sulle pratiche educative che può aiutare la modifica delle metodologie educative dell’intera scuola.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Knitting Board Toronto

Exaggerations

Often I remain astonished in front of exaggeration in the language used by people.

Two dead? A "massacre"!
Massacre? And what's the Ardeatine been? A massacre?

gesticulating to explain a concept (I'm a guy waving a lot, talking about). "Do not alter."
Altered? Ahahahaha! And when I get angry I get serious about what? The devil?

flu H1N1 will cause a pandemic.
pandemic? The "English", in his time, made overall more deaths than the First World War. And they dare to call 1000 (one thousand) dead "pandemic"?

And so on, with words like "disaster", "Apocalypse" ...

Be careful what words you use, please ...

carnage ...