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La pedagogia di Aldo Capitini e la democrazia. Orizzonti di formazione per l'uomo nuovo
2014
L’educazione alla democrazia prospettata da Aldo Capitini viene riconsiderata alla luce delle nuove emergenze poste dall’attuale società del pluralismo; egli, con uno sguardo lungo e anticipatamente post-moderno, consegna alle nuove generazioni un’inedita idea di democrazia, l’omnicrazia, e rilancia il rapporto tra politica e religione come necessario per promuovere un’educazione che miri alla formazione integrale dell’uomo. La proposta del metodo nonviolento, la realizzazione di comunità educanti in cui ci si formi ad un agire politico consapevole e responsabile, la sinergia tra spiritualità e politica, l’approccio laico e insieme religioso, sono alcuni fra gli aspetti più attuali di una p…
INCOME AND QUALITY OF LIFE INFLUENCE ON CITIZENS' PARTICIPATION IN ACTIVITIES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN LATVIA
2018
The aim of the paper is to analyse the factors influencing the citizen participation in activities of local governments in relation to quality of life in Latvia. The use of the CLEAR model, elaborated by a group of British researchers under guidance of Gerry Stoker, shows the possibilities of participation and engagement of citizens based on theoretical aspects. Latvia, as a member state of the EU, needs to develop and to involve more citizens in different social activities, since it has comparatively small experience in democratic processes due to its past of 50 years being a part of another country — the Soviet Union. The opportunities to participate in the European Parliament’s election …
Gender training for the judiciary in Argentina
2014
AbstractIn this paper I describe the two major Argentine experiences of gender training for the judiciary against the background of two relevant trends, women's entry in considerable numbers into the judiciary and the process of expansion of women's rights initiated after the restoration of democracy. The gap between the passing of progressive legislation and its lack of enforcement speaks of a tradition of women's subordination that is much engrained in our society and in its legal system. In spite of the existence of progressive egalitarian legislation stereotyped thinking prevails to prevent progressive legal practices. This constitutes a strong argument for gender training of the judici…
Bodily cleanliness in modern nursing
2013
Why are bodily washing practices the way they are in nursing? Michel Foucault argues that modern democratic societies discipline human bodies in accordance with political interests. In the extension of that argumentation we will show that bodily cleanliness in modern nursing may have been used as a disciplining tool. The first part of our discussion takes as its point of departure the second half of the 19th/the beginning of the 20th centuries, the period in which modern nursing emerged. At that time scientific theories on hygiene seem to have legitimized the political effort to produce a clean, pleasant-smelling, decent, obedient, and productive population. Doctors, nurses and teachers pla…
A Research Project about Communism in Romanian Countryside: Ploughmen’s Front Propaganda (1944-1953)
2013
The Ploughmen Front represented the strongest and the oldest “comrade” of the Communist Party from Romania, with a major role in the countryside communization. In general, the studies dedicated to Romania communization focused on institutionalization of the regime, liquidation of democratic order, repression, anticommunist resistance and less on the transformations undergone by the Romanian countryside. The only important issue was the agriculture collectivization. Our project takes into consideration a new approach, which is the research of the way communism became popular in the rural areas, which meant 80% of the Romanian population, how the popularity of the historical parties was dislo…
The Egalitarian Quality of Lottocracy
2019
Abstract. Recently, political models which employ lottery-selection instead of ballot voting have been proposed. Proponents argue that such lottocratic models can improve the representation of the population and reduce undemocratic influences. In this paper, I argue that these proposals also satisfy the egalitarian requirement of democracy. I claim that having an equal chance to be selected by lot is equally egalitarian as having an equally weighed vote for two reasons: first, having a chance to be selected by lot satisfies the requirement for political justice better than electoral democracy and second, it provides citizens with equal political influence and not merely equal impac…
Franco Salvo maestro di democrazia nella Sicilia del secondo dopoguerra
2018
Franco Salvo (1916-1983), professore di Storia e Filosofia presso il liceo classico Umberto I di Palermo fin dall’immediato dopoguerra, fu un «maestro di laicità» impegnato a formare i giovani ai valori della democrazia. Studioso appassionato di filosofia morale e storico, visse l’insegnamento come una missione laica orientata a formare le nuove generazioni alla libertà, alla responsabilità e ai principi fondanti della Costituzione. Durante le sue lezioni dava infatti ampio spazio all’educazione civica che insegnava entro una prospettiva storica, che considerava la più adeguata ad affrontare il tema dei diritti dell’uomo. Il suo metodo educativo era orientato a sviluppare una mentalità crit…
Problématiser la démocratie environnementale
2015
Problematizing the environmental democracy: Can online eco-citizen participation rescue the institutional participation? The rise of the digital society came with a series of hopes picturing a liberating technology. At the same time, political institutions call for a better integration of citizens in the public affairs’ government. Knowing that this injunction to participation does not generate a massive mobilization, to what extent can online discussion platforms help to give new life to citizen participation? This issue will be brought up through an analysis of Community Management in a socio-technical perspective, as a part of our PhD Research Program.
Autonomy and responsibility as key values for the elaboration of rules of coexistence in the ESO
2012
Algunas de las cuestiones que se plantean en el artículo son las siguientes: ¿Son los alumnos capaces de organizar el comportamiento y la convivencia en el aula? ¿Están capacitados para elaborar sus propias normas? o ¿Solamente se trata de un planteamiento teórico que resulta inviable de llevar a la práctica? En todo caso, ¿Qué nivel de responsabilidad y autonomía pueden asumir en el funcionamiento del aula? El aprendizaje de normas en el aula constituye una experiencia real, muy próxima a la experiencia y los intereses de los alumnos, que permite trabajar valores como la responsabilidad, el respeto, la participación, el diálogo y la democracia. A su vez les enseña a participar en asambleas…
Prácticas deliberativas, argumentación y pluralismo cívico en la Democracia republicana
2011
La esfera pública constituye el lugar donde la ciudadanía demanda, reclama y discute cualquier decisión política que concierne a sus intereses, sin embargo hemos visto como este modelo democrático participativo se soslaya, lo cual hace que se disminuya la vida política activa de la ciudadanía, para mejorar necesitamos que nuestras instituciones políticas deben de ser rediseñadas para facilitar una mayor comunicación y deliberación democrática, con nuevos paradigmas políticos enfatizados en políticas deliberativas. Precisamos de una reforma democrática que gire hacia un modelo más deliberativo, que fusione los esfuerzos de actores públicos y privados colocando al razonamiento público en el…