Sociology and Methods of Education On Legality

In the first part the course, through an experimental and interactive approach, develops a reflection on the general relationship between educational processes and quality of social systems, with particular reference to the values ​​of freedom, responsibility and democracy. It analyzes the mass ethical, cultural and psychological factors that influence the public spirit in the Italian social and institutional context, indicating legality as a major unresolved issue in national history. The second part of the course studies the path taken in Italy by the lawfulness education movement since the end of the 20th century. It explains the birth of this movement, its close relationship with some relevant social traumas, especially related to the aggression of criminal organizations towards institutions and civil coexistence; and point out the theoretical and practical approaches with which it has been nourished. Going from the "road teachers" of Naples to the different anti-mafia didactic projects carried out in high schools or to the path of re-socialization in prisons, the course progressively enumerates the most innovative educational strands expressed by the recent Italian reality. And it hosts witnesses of experiences realized in the most problematic urban and social contexts to acquire new cognitive perspectives and new ideas of general theory. To that end it problematizes the relationship of these educational strands with the main cultural and ethical problems of Italian society, trying to verify their possible sintonies with the social and civil movements ongoing in the national and international context.