The author of this article wants to explore the phenomenology of Giovanni Bosco’s encounter with his pupils. We would like to explain two explorative issues, that is, a) what are the characteristic features of Giovanni Bosco’s relations with his students and what are the resulting implications; and b) how socially maladjusted youth perceive their educator and how such teacher-student relations fit into the category of the master-apprentice dialogue?
L’activité de saint Jean Bosco (1815-1888), fut assurément multiple. Mais elle se concentra en majeure partie sur l’éducation de la jeunesse. Il a formé, en 47 années passées à son service, plusieurs générations d’adolescents et, de surcroît, des centaines de futurs maîtres qui se sont réclamés de ses conseils et de ses exemples. Pour connaître sa méthode pédagogique, c’est sur sa vie qu’il convient d’abord de se pencher.
Mais ses écrits sont aussi, pour leur part, très révélateurs. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – Saint Jean Bosco, Textes pédagogiques”
In many a document the Church has defined the nature, goal and elements of youth ministry and has included it neatly in the methods of evangelization in its different stages. We can proudly say that the Salesian educative-pastoral plan has been, and continues to be, in line with the Church’s evangelizing mission.
The topic of professional formation within the Salesian world is to be read in the light of the early experience of Don Bosco. One will not understand either the vision or the value of Salesian professional training as a whole if one overlooks this fundamental phase which Don Bosco lived and was able to help germinate and blossom.
Continue reading “Fabio Attard – Professional formation of the young in salesian youth ministry”
The Salesians, who have been applying the Preventive System since the time of their Don Bosco, have understood it mostly as a method of education. However, when we re-read the Preventive System from the perspective of rights, we realize that it is a Child Rights friendly system. We see ingrained in it many of the Child Rights.
The following four-part article has as its objective a particular aspect of Don Bosco’s charism: the spiritual accompaniment of the young. This theme, which is very relevant for today, is significant since it is fundamental to Don Bosco’s educational system and it is a characteristic of us Salesians, as accompaniers of the young.
This study of Don Bosco in a perspective of organizational virtues is intended to be in a circular hermeneutic relation with the present period of transformation in which the Salesians of Don Bosco find themselves.
In the course of the exposition so far it often appeared that one of the doubtless objectives of assistance, consists in preventing evil, disorders, and especially what Don Bosco summarily calls “offending God.”
The article centers on the theme of assistance, and how this element is a foundation of
Don Bosco’s Preventive System. The author offers insights on the probable historical and social context which influenced Don Bosco’s choice for the Preventive System.
Mario Fissore esamina un caso molto interessante, sia sotto il profilo della tradizione del racconto sia sotto quello dell’utilizzo formativo: il caso di don Giulio Barberis, che ebbe un ruolo di primo piano nella registrazione e nella valorizzazione dei sogni, lasciando quattordici quaderni di appunti sui sogni e altro materiale, non ancora studiato. Fissore, lavorando sulle fonti, documenta lo sviluppo della trasmissione del cosiddetto sogno del nastro e di quello del pergolato di rose e l’utilizzo formativo che il Barberis ne fece nelle sue conferenze ai novizi, sviluppandone i ricchi stimoli spirituali e le implicanze ascetico-morali. Continue reading “Mario Fissore – Recezione e trasmissione dei sogni di don Bosco da parte di don Giulio Barberis: due episodi singolari”
Particolare interesse ha l’approccio ai sogni di don Bosco proposto da Michal Vojtáš alla luce delle sue competenze pedagogiche. Dopo essersi confrontato con il realismo funzionale di Braido e la prospettiva comunicativa di Stella, l’autore integra il loro approccio leggendo la narrazione dei sogni come atto educativo nel suo stesso darsi, così da cogliere il processo dinamico entro cui si colloca ed evidenziarne la storia degli effetti, immediati e remoti. Attingendo alle Cronachette dei primi salesiani, Vojtáš ricostruisce un ricco processo educativo-narrativo fatto d’interpretazione della situazione, accoglienza della chiamata e di opportune applicazioni pratiche. Continue reading “Michal Vojtáš – L’uso educativo dei sogni da parte di don Bosco: contesti, processi, intenzioni”
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