Trasformazioni sensibili. Una ricerca - formazione sulle rappresentazioni in due servizi educativi per la famiglia

The inquiry was carried out starting from the following question: what are the reciprocal representations that are generated and interchanged between practitioners and families in educational family-care services? This question arose from a premise that the existence of a connection between the ideas/images of both practitioners and families and their actions inside the services. Moreover, we considered the possibility to generate reflexivity about the practices and possibly transformations in the services while studying the world of ideas. In the fist part of my thesis, I focused on the epistemological premises of the research. I have chosen as a framework the ecological paradigm and the social constructivist perspective. I discussed the state-of-the-art of the family pedagogy and I defined the term "representation". I treated the term representation in its sensitive dimension, I focused on the way the senses build the ideas and knowledge. In the second part of my dissertation, I presented the research I carried out in two different services dealing with family issues. In these services, I carried out a it recherche-formation involving both practitioners and families. I used as a methodological model the so called "Spiral of knowledge" and I analysed the materials produced during the meetings together with the other researchers involved. The materials have been analysed in the framework of a model inspired by the "Spiral of knowledge". At the end of the research, we organised a meeting with all practitioners and families to discuss about the research. The third part of the thesis outlines the two main lines of reflection I followed in my dissertation. The first one concerns the representation of the services generated by the subjects: services appeared as "liquid places". The second line concerns the reflection on the transformative aspects related to the research methodological and theoretical basis.