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.
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.
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.
Bruno Bellante offers in his essay some food for thought regarding Don Bosco’s choice to use a humanistic educational approach. In fact, according to the Saint, education serves not only to prepare the individual for a future profession, but also to help him in his personal growth as a human being. Continue reading “Bruno Bellerate – Don Bosco’s humanistic approach in education 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This paper reconstructs the fundamental stages that have marked the history of the Central Salesian Archives: from its transfer to Rome in 1972 to the digitalization of documents. Continue reading “Raffaele Farina – The state of the Central Salesian Archives and their use 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.
Il presente saggio, scritto da Pietro Stella, descrive brevemente gli studi fatti sul metodo educativo di Don Bosco da parte di esponenti della famiglia Salesiana e non.
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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