An Ecosystemic Reading and the Perspective of a Capability Learnfare: The Observatory on Training Processes and Territorial Analysis as a Pedagogical Model of Transformative Resilience

Abstract

The article aims to testify to the ten-year experience of research-action and training carried out by the Observatory on Training Processes and Territorial Analysis of the University of Salerno, founded and directed by Prof. E. Mannese. Starting from the examination of this experience and through reflection on the methodological framework and the projects implemented, the characterizing elements that have ensured its stability and success are identified in order to propose a hypothesis of a training ecosystem. Pedagogical model of transformative resilience outlined is structured around six principles: multipolar agency, generativity and transformativity, territories conceived as learningland, learning and territorial capital, capabilities for the development of talents and territories, the metaphor of the border. These principles are consistent with a series of fundamental characteristics common to the main theoretical and educational approaches present in the literature. They are the basis of the definition of a core set aimed at guiding the promotion and development of generative pedagogical devices, transformative research-action models and capability learnfare systems, for the development of talents and territories.

Keywords

• Training ecosystem
• Capability approach
• Generativity
• Relationship
• Boundary