DON BOSCOYOUNG PEOPLE AND WORK

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Young people = “substance” of Don Bosco’s life =«da mihi animas»

educational relationship = Don Bosco’s way of living together with the young people

Don Bosco: ONE idea = preventive education =

PREVENTING NOT REPRESSING(G. Lombardo Radice)

The preventive system

= a METHOD

(cp. the treatise of 1877)

“In the encounter with the young people of the first oratorio Don Bosco lived a SPIRITUAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE, which we call preventive system.”

(Salesian Constitution n. 20)

The foundation

«For him it was a kind of love which is given gratuitously, summoning from God’s love, who anticipates every creature with his provid-ence, accompanies him/her/ it with his presence and saves him/her/it by giving life …»

(Salesian Constitution n. 20)

THE EDUCATIONAL MODEL OF don Bosco

• “DA MIHIANIMAS”

«SALESIAN» HUMANISM

«EDUCATIONAL PASSION»

PREVENTIVE SYSTEM

«THE POINT

ACCESSIBLE

TO THE GOOD»

• ORATORIO

• HOME• [= educational

community]

• REASON

• RELIGION

• KINDNESS

• “ASSISTENCE”• SPIRIT OF THE

FAMILY• [=CLIMATE]«GOOD cristianS

AND Honest citIZENS» … AND saIntS

reasonkindness

Godsaints

Good Christians and honest citizens

Trust in the young people

Like a COMPASS

religion

1.in the middle the young people «assistence»2. a «proper hhome» = welcoming, dialogue, spirit of the family

3.start from the «point accessibie to the good»

7. «together with you … promote the protagonism

5. with reason, religion, kindness … (in reproach/ punishment too…)

10.guidance, orientation and educational accompaniment … former members

8. induce making them do practice = coresponsibility

6. indication of meaning: «the 3 “s”»: salute, studio, santità// salvation, studies, holiness// piety, morality, culture// work, formation, humanity// human rights, indivisible values, the command of the gospel

9. organize time = everyday and feast … project, edu-cational pact, regulation …

Rethink the eucational intervention in a preventive way

4. gradually «inflame» the potentials, the internal and external resources …

Don Bosco and manual work

The young Giovanni Bosco earned his studies by work as an apprentice, a tradesman.

… if I had had a friend outside …

Feasting oratorio, catechese, interests of the young workers, guaranteeing contracts for young workers … in «urban» Torino, a capital, at its industrial, financial, political upsurge

sections of tradesmen in the Oratorio from the 50ies onwards … to the World Fair at Torino in 1881

THE idea OF WORK IN THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE ….

With the aim of «earning one’s life», for personal dignity, as a right and ethical duty

In order to be honest citizens = participation coresponsible for the social developpment, «duty of decency»In order to be good Christians = the commandment of the Creator use the fruits of work, transform, care for, save the creation = active laboriousness personal and civil virtue = sense of «penitence», of redeeming strain = source and way of «realizing love» = mercy and generosity = collaborate with the construction of the Realm of God and his justice A spirituality of work = Work and temperance … for the Salesians

Reflections for today

A integrated humane formation due to which one has not got the brain in the head, but in the hands,

one doesn’t speak, but do, one doesn’t project, but act, one doesn’t make concepts, but construe, one doesn’t sustain school, but learnsin a workplace.

Which professional

formation?

For all theory and practice – school and work («the good school»)

Policies for young people.

1. Fight against illicit manual work, against forced recruitment for the Mafia, for war, for prostitution, for the world of drugs….

2. Gradual and economically sustained joining the world of work

3. «Credits of honour» for the continuation of studies

4. Economic and legal support for those who want to «found a household»

5. «Financial grants» for maternity and children

6. Support for early childhood and the mothers who work by means of «adequate» «kindergardens» and nursery schools

7. A good school by means of valid and competent teaching and an «educational alliance» between the agents of formation («educational pact»)

88 high-quality formation and further education of teachers, preparation for matrimony, parents’ schools,

lifelong education for all the whole society in a state of educazion

Achieve

a wide horizon

The educational Part

= growing and being educated

«together»

►In the mystery of «Christian sonship» = sons (children) in the Son, in the Spirit, Abba-Father

► In the mystery of the Church, body of Christ / people of God

In the mystery of the search for the Realm of God and his justice

pass (integrate) from … to …1) a pedagogy of responses …

p. of proposals2) a pedagogy of subjective

success in formation … p. of objectives (personal, communitarian, … human, … Christian ones …)

3) a pedagogy at service … p. through service

Which pedagogy?

The basic attitude of the educator

a heart and an educational passion … «a Christian one» (?!)

“wishing well, wishing the good, wishing it well, doing it well”

creating for oneself a style of thinking and acting which unites

1- realizie(= empathy for welcoming experiences, tendencies, interests offered by life)

2- make relevant (= events,resoursces, cultural movements, innovative movements)

3- insert (= ideas,values,key models of interpretation)

4- provide (= by means of projects, plans)5- operationalize (= by individualising,

objectives, contents, experiences,activities,strategies,times,alliances)

6- monitor, evaluate, verify personally, together

making one’s «eye, mind and heart educational”

«pedagogical» reading on persons, facts, events «focussed” on personal growth, making evident: • what is personal (more than what is structural), • what are the potentials (more than what is actual), • what is value-oriented (more than what is factual)

reading of the reality of young people, diagnostical, promoting, incouraging, «arranged» from the point of view of life and the good…)

seen as by a Christian = in every person = human dignity + image and likeness to God,+ --> «son in the Son» and we sons and daughters with him … in the SON!

… like Jesus, the master1) He makes himself the «neighbour.2) He welcomes personally. 3) He uses the dialogue (“what do you say?”).4) He understands, doesn’t condemn,

even when he doesn’t justify.5) He stimulates personal “liberty”

directed to the «more», according to every one’s “talents” and the demands of the “Realm” (the vocation-mission): «not sin any more», «do that and you will live», «sell everything … come and follow me», «leave the nets … I will make you a fisherman of human beings».

6) Testimony, «by good deeds», the gospel of God’s love for the world … at risk!!! 7) «… through them I sanctify myself»

*God

Supreme Good (eternal salvation)* *

Good Christians – Honest citizens * * *

Reason Religion Kindness

teaching - relation/testimony - climate of being together - apprenticeship in cooperation* * * *

Home Parish School Workplace Court* * * * *

Family Society Church Educatoris Young people

1 ultimate aim2 objectives

3 methodological levers5 ways of action

5 moduli interattivi5 partners

SALESIAN EDUCATIONAL AND PASTORAL PROJECt OF DON BOSCO