Cesare Scurati – Classroom and “playground”: a combination essential to Don Bosco’s scheme of total education in «Don Bosco’s place in history»

Cesare Scurati in his essay focuses on Don Bosco’s intuition in the need to integrate school activites with the extra ones, that is games and physical activities. These latter types of activities allow young people to express their vitality and increase their skills at a relational level.

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Jacques Schepens – Don Bosco and education to the sacraments of Penance and of the Eucharist in «Don Bosco’s place in history»

Jaques Schepens in his essay focuses on the sacraments of Confession and the Eucharist according to the vision of Don Bosco. The Saint saw the sacraments not only as means of grace, but also as accompanying instruments for boys to receive a more complete education.

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Josip Gregur – La musica “anima” del carisma salesiano in “Sviluppo del carisma di Don Bosco fino alla metà del secolo XX. Atti del Congresso internazionale di Storia Salesiana Roma, 19-23 novembre 2014”

Tra i valori essenziali la musica, sebbene oggi presente in ogni settore della società,
di certo non occupa il primo posto nella vita dell’uomo, come la salute, il lavoro, le relazioni interpersonali e sociali. Come un valore culturale, una realtà ideale, la musica nella civilizzazione materialistica frequentemente risulta trascurabile. Essa si percepisce come mezzo di distrazione nel tempo libero e come abbellimento nei giorni di festa. Anche nella Chiesa, tradizionalmente portatrice della cultura — a causa dell’interdipendenza tra la cultura e il culto — la musica sembra fungere come “lo zucchero a velo sulla torta” piuttosto che “lievito del pane”, cioè espressione genuina della fede.

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José Manuel Prellezo – Don Bosco and professional schools (1870-1887) in «Don Bosco’s place in history»

Prellezo traces the birth and the development and organization phases of the vocational schools established by Don Bosco and related laboratories that would have given the opportunity to poor and abandoned young people to learn a useful profession in order to have a better future.

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Giorgio Chiosso – “Don Bosco and the Oratory (1841-1855)” in “Don Bosco’s place in history”

This essay traces the birth and development of the Oratory, the first educational enterprise created by Don Bosco in Turin. The main objective of the Oratory was to welcome and take care of young people, especially those “abandoned and at risk”, so that they could save their souls and make them honest citizens.                   

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Guy Avanzini – Don Bosco’s pedagogy in the context of the 19th century in «Don Bosco’s place in history»

The author of the essay noted how in France Don Bosco is not mentioned (except for the French Salesian Desramaut who conducted in-depth studies on the Saint) among the great names of those who made the history of pedagogy. The young people Don Bosco helped were poor and abandoned, misfits. The Preventive System approach that contrasted the repressive system used in those days, undoubtedly revolutionized the field of education.

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Luciano Pazzaglia – Don Bosco’s option for youth and his educational approach in «Don Bosco’s place in history»

This essay deals with the educational method adopted by Don Bosco. The Saint saved many young workers from dangerous environments and of dubious morality by involving them in learning useful trades for their future through workshops.

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Silvio Tramontin – Don Bosco and the world of work in «Don Bosco’s place in history»

Silvio Tramontin, in his essay, analyzes the concept of “work” according to the vision of Don Bosco.The Saint saved many young workers from dangerous environments and of dubious morality by involving them in learning useful trades for their future. The work was also accompanied by recreational moments (games and physical activity) and religious instruction. 

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Francis Desramaut – The methods adopted by the authors of the “Memorie biografiche” in «Don Bosco’s place in history»

Francis Desramaut presenta nel suo saggio le varie fasi e le risorse che hanno portato alla pubblicazione di “Memorie Biografiche” di Don Bosco, opera comprendente 19 volumi scritti a tre mani da Giovannni Battista Lemoyne, Eugenio Ceria e Angelo Amedei.

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Aldo Giraudo – Il contesto, le intenzioni dell’autore e i livelli d’interpretazione. Domenico Savio raccontato da don Bosco: riflessioni sulla Vita. Atti del Simposio

Don Bosco pubblica la Vita del giovanetto Savio Domenico nell’aprile 1859 come fascicolo della collana mensile “Letture Cattoliche”, giunta al suo sesto anno di attività. Con questo piccolo e importantissimo libro si può considerare chiuso il primo periodo dell’azione pastorale e educativa del santo. Pochi mesi dopo, infatti, il 18 dicembre, si costituirà ufficialmente la Società Salesiana, e inizierà una nuova fase della vita di don Bosco, quella che lo vedrà fondatore di famiglie religiose, consolidatore e diffusore di un’opera che da Torino sarà esportata a livello mondiale con successo crescente.

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