Upload
nelia
View
20
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Questions. Don Bosco speaks from the experience of someone living in a Catholic culture… Can his approach be applied in our post-Christian age?. Questions. Don Bosco ’ s experience was with adolescent boys and young adults… Does his approach work with girls… - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
QuestionsQuestions
Don Bosco speaks from the experience of someone living in a Catholic culture…
Can his approach be applied in our post-Christian age?
QuestionsQuestions
Don Bosco’s experience was with adolescent boys and young adults…
Does his approach work with girls… Does his approach work with children?
Intensely livedIntensely lived
the art of positive education by putting forward what is good through appropriate experiences which call for the involvement of the pupil and are attractive;
Intensely livedIntensely lived
the art of producing growth in the young persons ‘from within’ by appealing to their inner freedom to oppose external conditioning and formalism;
Intensely livedIntensely lived
the art of winning the heart of young people so as to inculcate in them a joyful and satisfied attraction to what is good, correcting deviations and preparing them for the future by means of solid character formation.
FocusFocus
“The preventive system is more attuned to the person than focused on the generic demands of education.” Francesco Motto
ContextContext
“We are talking about the ordinary environment in which the young persons lives, and it is there that the salesian educational path begins… which is a path to holiness”. Luc Van Looy.
Don BoscoDon Bosco’’s languages language
Insights into the vocabulary that John Bosco used when describing
Christian education
Preventive SystemPreventive System
Prevention? Preventive?
Praevenire: go before– show the way… – trail blaze!– “A lamp to my feet”
This is more clearly seen when the derivation of ‘preventive’ is understood.
It derives from the Latin praevenire: ‘to precede’, ‘to anticipate’, ‘to go before with spiritual help’
The term includes deep intuitions, precise options and methodological criteria
Preventive SystemPreventive System
AssistanceAssistance
Assistere:– To be there where it
is happening!– To be a participant
To be actively present!
ReasonReason
To reason…– Discuss– Put forth ideas and
point of view– Debate– Have your say and
listen to their say
Dialogue
ReasonReason the term “Reason” refers to
that whole range of human activity which is the matter of education
“Reason” emphasises basic human values such as the freedom and dignity of the individual, the primacy of conscience, the goodness of creation and culture, and the worth of work and social living
ReligionReligion “Religion”, indicates that his
pedagogical approach is essentially transcendent, that it emerges from and is oriented towards relationship with God
Don Bosco’s educational activities were not restricted to religious education classes and active moral formation
ReligionReligion
Morality Faith Purpose Compassion God’s tender
presence in the everyday
KindnessKindness
Amorevolezza– Loving-kindness– Gentle– Interpersonal
Affectionate
KindnessKindness “Loving-kindness” is more a
daily attitude of love that has the good of the other at heart and which works so that the students realise their potential with growing independence
Rather, it is an attitude expressed in practice in the commitment of the educator as a person dedicated to the good of the students
KindnessKindness
Loving-kindness also implies much about the atmosphere in which education occurs
It is an atmosphere marked by a “family spirit” in which there is mutuality in human relationships and a full range of joyful and stimulating educative activities.