Il primo volume si apre con una rapida delineazione epistemologica delle scienze del!’ educazione, che serve anche a inquadrare nel vero significato e nella esatta funzionalità il materiale offerto da tutto il Sommario.
Pietro Braido – Il Sistema Preventivo di Don Bosco
Il presente lavoro, senza svalutare alcuno dei precedenti, è finora il saggio più completo e metodico sul sistema preventivo nell’educazione della gioventù, quale Don Bosco lo concepì, lo attuò e lo inculcò per oltre quarant’anni con la parola viva e con l’esempio quotidiano.
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Pietro Ricaldone – Don Bosco Educatore. Volume I
Don Bosco non fu un puro teorico, nè un innovatore: anzichè attardarsi a formulare teorie, s’immerse nell’azione, ispirata a princìpi che affondavano le radici nella tradizione cristiana.
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Senza autore – Manuale Direttivo degli Oratorii Festivi e delle Scuole di Religione
Indice:
- Congresso degli Oratorii Festivi
- Congresso e Manuale
- Programma e Membri del Comitato Promotore del congresso
- Avvertenza Importantissima
Giulio Barberis,José Manuel Prellezo – Appunti di pedagogia di Giulio Barberis (1847-1927)
Don Barberis entra certamente nella cerchia dei discepoli e collaboratori di don Bosco, “riconosciuti oggi come figure chiave per la genesi e lo sviluppo” della Società di San Francesco di Sales “negli aspetti organizzativi, istituzionali, formativi e carismatici”.
Michal Vojtáš – Pietro Braido: evoluzione del “manuale” di Sistema Preventivo (1955-1999)
L’articolo studia l’evoluzione delle concezioni di Pietro Braido sul Sistema Preventivo di don Giovanni Bosco. In particolare si analizzano le tre edizioni del “manuale”, abbracciando un arco di tempo di quasi metà secolo (1955-1999).
Michal Vojtáš – Sviluppi delle linee pedagogiche della congregazione salesiana
La presente relazione si concentrerà sugli sviluppi delle linee pedagogiche della Congregazione salesiana presenti soprattutto nei documenti ufficiali come le decisioni dei Capitoli Generali (CG), le lettere dei Rettori Maggiori e dei consiglieri scolastici negli Atti del Capitolo Superiore (ACS), i programmi d’insegnamento per gli studentati e le scuole salesiane.
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Egidio Viganò – “Be on the watch with your robes hitched up and your lamps alight”
Contents:
- “Religious life and discipline”
- Aversion to the concept of “discipline”
- Spiritual significance of the “Rule of life”
Egidio Viganò – New Aspects of commitment to Religious Discipline
Contents:
- “To awake the dawn”
- Prepare a Plan for Active participation
- Don Bosco a Diligent Promoter of Discipline of the Spirit
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Giovanni Bosco – First salesian colleges founded outside Turin (1863-1864)
“One and not the last study by Don Bosco this year,” writes J. B. Lemoyne referring to 1863 “was the foundation of the college at Mirabello. He had written up its regulations, using the ones at the Oratory as a basis, specifying all the duties of individual superiors and of the pupils, changing what might not be appropriate for the nature of this Institute.” These “regulations,” that remained simply handwritten for many years, according to what we have from Lemoyne, “had to be the founding statute for all the other Houses that would be opened over time. This meant they were given much importance.”
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Giovanni Bosco – Pedagogical and didactic principles and disciplinary matters (1846-1879
The ten brief documents that follow—some perhaps less known than the previous ones in Salesian history—are also interesting from the point of view of the maturing and practice of Don Bosco’s educational system. We have a necessarily limited selection here of personal letters to people responsible for public education, or to young people and teachers, and circulars on pedagogical and didactic issues.
Jose Kuttianimattathil – The preventive system and child rights more than a tool for working with children with behavioral difficulties
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.
Arthur Lenti – Key-concepts, concerns and fears of a Founder-Don Bosco in his declining years Part II
In an article which appeared in an earlier issue of this Journal, I described some of Don Bosco’s concerns, as he expressed them in meetings of his council and in sessions of General Chapters held during the last decade of his life.
Michael Ribotta – Tough love is not the answer- Don Bosco’s views on punishment
In our essay we shall examine the meaning and application of “punishment” and “discipline” as found in Don Bosco’s educational writings. It was a subject to which he returned time and time again-and for good reason.
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Michael Ribotta – The Roman Letter of 1884 and its aftermath
In retrospect, one can appreciate why Don Bosco had become so distraught by the message that was played out in his dream (reverie?) during his Roman sojourn of 1884. His old friends, Joseph Buzzelli and Ferdinando Valfre, had demonstrated all too realistically what he could expect when the educational principles of his Sistema Preventivo and the “love environment” he strove so hard to cultivate for 40 years at the Oratory had been allowed to dissipate.
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