Jos Biesmans,Rik Biesmans – The Magna Carta of the Salesian Educational System, Sussidio

Per facilitare l’uso dei diversi testi riguardanti le successive fasi redazionali della cosiddetta “lettera da Roma lunga” di don Bosco del 10 maggio 1884 abbiamo preparato un sussidio con sei colonne parallele. Per cinque delle sei colonne abbiamo seguito l’ indicazione o lettera introdotta da Pietro Braido nell’edizione critica di questi manoscritti (Braido P., La lettera di don Bosco da Roma del 10 maggio 1884, Roma, LAS, 1984.) Continue reading “Jos Biesmans,Rik Biesmans – The Magna Carta of the Salesian Educational System, Sussidio”

Rik Biesmans – The Magna Carta of the Salesian Educational System, vol. 1

The text now available offers the English translation of the first volume of a Dutch study consisting of two volumes. It is entitled: The Magna Carta of the Salesian Educational System. This first volume contains 4 chapters:

  1. The first chapter should acquaint readers with certain circumstances in the extensive and multifaceted activities in the Valdocco Oratory in the years 1880-1884.
  2. The second chapter offers an insight into how the first section of the extended or ’combined version’ (manuscript D) may have been constructed. This section of the larger chapter, a sort of circular letter, was meant for the Salesians in Valdocco.
  3. The longer third chapter consists of the discussion of the content of the “circular letter” (manuscripts C and D).
  4. The short fourth chapter draws attention to the main pedagogical and pastoral components.

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Rik Biesmans – The Magna Carta of the Salesian Educational System, vol. 2

The original Dutch study of “The Magna Carta of the Salesian Education” consists of two volumes. The first volume contains comments on the first part of manuscript D (Ms. D) with the text for the teachers and assistants at Valdocco. Some years later Fr. Gaston Deneve, SDB finished the second volume, commenting on the second part of Ms. D with almost the complete letter sent From Rome on 10 May 1884 to the boys at the Oratory in Valdocco, and offering further considerations concerning both parts. Julian Fox and Emmanuel Camilleri kindly reviewed and corrected this translation.

To make the comparison with the original Italian texts easier we have prepared an Auxiliary or Supplementary Booklet consisting of six columns. This was realized by Jos Biesmans, SDB and Eugeen Vanhoof, a committed cooperator. In the second volume of the Study we have indicated the pages concerned between brackets. Continue reading “Rik Biesmans – The Magna Carta of the Salesian Educational System, vol. 2”

Morand Wirth – Don Bosco and the Salesians

This book satisfies a real need describing as it does the growth of Don Bosco’s work with historical accuracy and in pleasant style.

Going back one hundred and fifty years, the Salesian story is one of continuous growth. There was no need therefore to divide it into different periods. Because Don Bosco’s childhood was the foundation of his achievement, it seems only natural to begin with his birth in 1815 and to conclude with the Salesian General Chapter in 1965. Continue reading “Morand Wirth – Don Bosco and the Salesians”

Morand Wirth – Affectivité et éducation chez Don Bosco

C’est une approche historique précise et approfondie que proposent ces pages du Père Wirth. Partout des souvenirs et des textes de Don Bosco, notamment 4 biographies qu’il a lui-même consacrées à des adolescents recueillis au Valdocco, elles explicitent la genèse et la structure du « système préventif », et s’attachent à définir ce « cœur » qu’il convient de « gagner » grâce à une relation éducative appropriée. Qu’est-ce que « l’amorevolezza » qui permet au sujet de sentir qu’il est aimé ? Continue reading “Morand Wirth – Affectivité et éducation chez Don Bosco”

Morand Wirth – En quoi don Bosco est-il salésien ?

En quoi don Bosco est-il salésien ? À cette question les réponses ont été variées selon les auteurs dont les points de vue sont exposés dans la première partie. Dans la deuxième partie on a voulu retracer le parcours salésien de don Bosco, c’est-à-dire la manière dont la figure de François de Sales s’est imposée progressivement à l’éducateur turinois. Enfin on s’est efforcé d’identifier un certain nombre de traits présents dans la figure de don Bosco qui renvoient de façon certaine à son modèle. Continue reading “Morand Wirth – En quoi don Bosco est-il salésien ?”

Consulta Mondiale,Dicastero per la Famiglia Salesiana – Regolamento di vita apostolica – Commento ufficiale

Il Regolamento di vita apostolica è una lettura razionale presentata in forma aggiornata, stimolante, che vuole rispondere alle richieste di approfondimento e di guida vocazionale nell’itinerario che ogni cooperatore cerca di portare a felice termine come “salesiano nel mondo”.  In tale senso, questo commento fa meditare e dà spazio il più possibile ai vari ambiti, agli elementi concorrenti e ai dinamismi carismatici che oggi, specialmente dopo la esortazione apostolica “Christifideles laici”, possono servire per qualificare con competenza, la specifica vocazione secolare e salesiana del Cooperatore. Continue reading “Consulta Mondiale,Dicastero per la Famiglia Salesiana – Regolamento di vita apostolica – Commento ufficiale”

Roger Burggraeve – Reason and reasonableness as pillars of education. An Ethical Updating of Don Bosco’s Legacy

There are two well-known perspectives in talking about the pedagogy of Don Bosco: on the one hand, the binary idea of a repressive versus a preventive system and, on the other, the triple concept of ‘kindness, reason, religion’ (amorevolezza, ragione, religione).

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Roger Burggraeve – The soul of integral education. Orientations for a contemporary interpretation of ‘religione’ in the Salesian pedagogical project

One of the essential pillars in the Salesian education project is religion (religione) beside — or rather along with — ‘amorevolezza’ and ‘ragione’. With Don Bosco the Christian faith lies indeed at the foundation for his choice for young people, paying special attention to the vulnerable ones amongst them. His Christian faith as the anchoring of his educational interests was for him self-explanatory.

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Rik Biesmans – La ragione(volezza) e il punto delicato dei castighi nel processo educativo

Don Bosco e generalmente anche i suoi prossimi collaboratori hanno cercato di applicare consapevolmente e fedelmente il sistema preventivo nell’educazione. Esso richiede l’assistenza costruttiva ed anche ‘impeditiva’ (preveniente per mezzo di misure impeditive) come pure la ragione(volezza), la pratica religiosa, i rapporti amichevoli e benevoli.

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Enrica Rosanna – La prevalenza delle donne nell’insegnamento Problema o risorsa?

Oggi, nella realtà della società e della scuola (italiana ed europea, come vedremo) la presenza del maestro è pressoché sparita, specie ai livelli inferiori: l’educatrice del nido, quella della materna, se c’è qualche difficoltà la logopedista e la psicomotricista, la tata, la vicina di casa, la baby sitter… per arrivare alle insegnanti della scuola primaria e secondaria inferiore, tutte (o quasi) sono rigorosamente donne.

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