The Connection between School and Politics. Three fields of study for pedagogy

Abstract

The connection between school and politics can be studied from pedagogy by examining at least three fields of study, described in this paper. In the first field, pedagogy focuses on school as an object of national and international policies; in the second, it studies the political training carried out by the school through the education of civic and democratic conscience; in the third, it takes into consideration the school as the responsible for its own policy, studying its decision-making processes and its spaces of autonomy. For each of these fields, pedagogy can play a critical and prospective role, first of all proposing its own vision of school. In brief, the paper proposes the principle of school as a common good.

Keywords

• scuola
• politica
• bene comune
• democrazia
• autonomia