co-edited with Markus Ophälders
Italo Calvino, in 1985’s “Six Memos for the Nex Millennium”, developed six proposals for surviving in the next millennium. In one of them is the idea of a possible pedagogy of the imagination. Why reflect on a pedagogy of the imagination? Why still promote it today?
Starting from this question, scholars have sought to challenge their own disciplines and experience in order to construct a path of theoretical and political reflection. This book is thus made up not only of essays outlining the panorama of ethical and philosophical, individual and collective references, of a reflection on a pedagogy that keeps imagination at its centre, but also of real practical-political proposals for the millennium we are now passing through.
In spite of the fact that reforms of the educational system have multiplied over the last twenty-five years, this has often happened without any reflection on the fundamentals. Reflecting on how and why to educate, as well as the means to be used and the purposes, both individual and collective, is more fundamental and necessary than ever.
Originally published as:
C. Diotto, M. Ophälders, Formare per trasformare. Per una pedagogia dell’immaginazione, Eterotopie, Mimesis, Milano 2022. ISBN: 9788857591889
Caterina Diotto 