The pedagogical research has its focus on three female generations with Apulian origins who live in Milan or in its hinterland: “grandmothers”, migrated between ‘50s-‘60s, “mothers” and “daughters”. This research tried to observe the different educational feminine paths that there are into various social spaces and times and that are dense of informal educational experiences. The theoretical framework of this research is composed by social pedagogical studies, gender studies and studies on migrations. The internal migration and the stereotypes about Southern women played an important role in grandmothers’ educational paths. On the other hand, for the other women (“mothers” and “daughters”), the “new territories” of reference, the peer groups and the male and female adults in their families were important. Their families, differently of Northern ones, were not manifestly involved in economical-boom phenomena and in the social transformations of that time. The research – wondering how the daughters are growing – tried to reflect on the joint action of gender, generation and cultural heritage on female walks of life and it tried to observe – among three generations – the reiterations/alterations of gender messages and performances. Not only It wanted to understand the “transformative possibilities” opened by women for their daughters, but also the collusive behaviours about some hypothesis of female and Southern people’s subordination (but not only them) that were offered in the generational passages. Moreover, it wanted to study the role of the territories in which these first women arrived and in which their descendants live, in structuration of some occasions of alternative learning and critical thinking. Data were collected by an ethno-pedagogical system, mainly with semi-structural in-depth interviews. The analysis used the intersectional, translocal and intergenerational criteria. Others tools were informal moments with triads, in which it has been possible to observe in a participatory way and, in a second time, to write a diary of research. The occasions of restitution of stories were among these fundamental moments. The pedagogical analysis has raised some “identity matters” not fully resolved, affecting contemporary biographies and popular neighborhoods in which different migrations overlap now. These “unresolved issues” bring some women to try to defend their “unstable centrality”, earned during the time, by distancing themselves from backwardness that has been lived in personal biography (with several subordinations), in personal family and in current society. Actually, the society still promotes and remains silent about women’s subordinations, mainly about young women’s one. Thus, this backwardness was and it is lived by these women but it is assigned to other femininities, considered marginal relating to a (illusory) vantage position reached today. With this disregard, the daughters also risk to stake in the war of symbols, unknowingly sustaining other wars, removed from the daily life and based on the democratization of Middle East in which women are seen as subordinated to their men and to their backward culture. Today, different women compete with each other but they don’t perceive themselves in the similar social-situation and they unconsciously hinder the social transformation, necessary in the permanence of male-dominating tradition. In some common reflection about these issues (as a common restitution with daughters and a theater performance), it could be possible to reflect and to legitimize the drawing of some transversal issues among different stories and this could create a new knowledge about Italian contemporary society. These events could open some alternative dialogues between different femininities (but not only them) who now live together the same social structure characterized by gender issues and other migratory phenomena.

La ricerca pedagogica ha posto l’attenzione sulle storie di formazione di tre generazioni di donne dalle origini pugliesi abitanti a Milano o nel suo hinterland (“nonne”, migrate negli anni ‘50-‘60, “madri”, “figlie”); su identità non isolate ma da considerarsi in rapporto ai contesti storico-geografico-sociali vissuti; sui processi di educazione informale rintracciabili nei percorsi di vita. La ricerca, così orientata, si è collocata nel quadro teorico della pedagogia sociale. Rilevanti anche gli studi di genere e sulle migrazioni. Se per le “nonne” sono risultati centrali, per la formazione identitaria, la migrazione interna e gli stereotipi sulle meridionali; per le altre determinanti sono stati i rapporti con i nuovi territori, con le/i pari e con le/gli adulti nelle famiglie, che, diversamente da quelle settentrionali, non sono state immediatamente interessate dal miracolo economico e dalle trasformazioni di quei tempi. La ricerca – chiedendosi come stiano crescendo le “figlie” – ha provato a osservare le reiterazioni/alterazioni, da una generazione all’altra, di performances di genere; a comprendere quali siano state le possibilità trasformative aperte dalle stesse donne per le figlie; quali gli atteggiamenti collusivi alle idee di inferiorità femminile/meridionale (e non solo) “offerti” nei passaggi generazionali; quali ancora i contributi (o meno) dei territori, dove sono andate inserendosi le prime migranti e poi le loro discendenti, nella formazione di apprendimenti alternativi. La ricerca ha provato a riflettere anche sull’azione congiunta delle appartenenze di genere, generazione e del patrimonio culturale. L’analisi tematica a più livelli dei dati raccolti con un dispositivo etnopedagogico ha infatti provato a utilizzare le lenti dell’intersezionalità, translocale e intergenerazionale. Accanto alle interviste in profondità, i momenti di informalità (come la restituzione cartacea), guidati dall’osservazione inevitabilmente partecipante, di cui si è tenuta traccia nel diario di ricerca. L’analisi pedagogica ha portato alla luce “nodi identitari” non pienamente risolti, incidenti anche nell’attuale sui percorsi biografici e nei quartieri popolari, in cui oggi si sovrappongono diverse migrazioni; ha messo in evidenza “questioni irrisolte” che conducono queste donne a tentare la salvaguardia di una “centralità instabile” guadagnata nel tempo, prendendo le distanze da un’idea di “arretratezza”: vissuta nella propria biografia (con molteplici subordinazioni) e nel contesto familiare, tacitata eppure promossa dalla società contemporanea – ancora sfavorevole soprattutto per le giovani –, ma ora attribuita ad altre, considerate ai margini di una posizione vantaggiosa (illusoriamente) raggiunta nella contemporaneità. È questa presa di distanza che rischia di portare anche le “figlie” a giocarsi all’interno di guerre tra simboli, che sostengono inconsapevolmente guerre altre, allontanate dal quotidiano e basate sulla democratizzazione del Medioriente, in cui le donne sono viste come sottomesse all’uomo e alla loro cultura appunto arretrata; le porta a concorrere con queste, non percependosi invece sulla stessa barca e ostacolando così un cambiamento sociale, necessario davanti alla permanenza diffusa di una cultura maschilista. Il proporre riflessioni collegiali (dalla restituzione comune con le “figlie” alla teatralizzazione), ha come obiettivo ultimo proprio una rilettura condivisa di storie di vita e formazione, individuali eppure collettive, che illuminano alcune dimensioni della società italiana più ampia; rilettura, che vorrebbe stimolare dialoghi alternativi tra diverse femminilità (e non solo), che pure oggi si trovano a vivere insieme – in maniera concorrenziale più che cooperativa – la medesima struttura sociale ancora interessata da questioni di genere e da altri fenomeni migratori.

(2019). EDUCAZIONE FEMMINILE INFORMALE E PASSAGGI GENERAZIONALI. Una ricerca etnopedagogica con tre generazioni di donne dalle origini pugliesi a Milano e hinterland. (Tesi di dottorato, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2019).

EDUCAZIONE FEMMINILE INFORMALE E PASSAGGI GENERAZIONALI. Una ricerca etnopedagogica con tre generazioni di donne dalle origini pugliesi a Milano e hinterland

RIZZO, MARIALISA
2019

Abstract

The pedagogical research has its focus on three female generations with Apulian origins who live in Milan or in its hinterland: “grandmothers”, migrated between ‘50s-‘60s, “mothers” and “daughters”. This research tried to observe the different educational feminine paths that there are into various social spaces and times and that are dense of informal educational experiences. The theoretical framework of this research is composed by social pedagogical studies, gender studies and studies on migrations. The internal migration and the stereotypes about Southern women played an important role in grandmothers’ educational paths. On the other hand, for the other women (“mothers” and “daughters”), the “new territories” of reference, the peer groups and the male and female adults in their families were important. Their families, differently of Northern ones, were not manifestly involved in economical-boom phenomena and in the social transformations of that time. The research – wondering how the daughters are growing – tried to reflect on the joint action of gender, generation and cultural heritage on female walks of life and it tried to observe – among three generations – the reiterations/alterations of gender messages and performances. Not only It wanted to understand the “transformative possibilities” opened by women for their daughters, but also the collusive behaviours about some hypothesis of female and Southern people’s subordination (but not only them) that were offered in the generational passages. Moreover, it wanted to study the role of the territories in which these first women arrived and in which their descendants live, in structuration of some occasions of alternative learning and critical thinking. Data were collected by an ethno-pedagogical system, mainly with semi-structural in-depth interviews. The analysis used the intersectional, translocal and intergenerational criteria. Others tools were informal moments with triads, in which it has been possible to observe in a participatory way and, in a second time, to write a diary of research. The occasions of restitution of stories were among these fundamental moments. The pedagogical analysis has raised some “identity matters” not fully resolved, affecting contemporary biographies and popular neighborhoods in which different migrations overlap now. These “unresolved issues” bring some women to try to defend their “unstable centrality”, earned during the time, by distancing themselves from backwardness that has been lived in personal biography (with several subordinations), in personal family and in current society. Actually, the society still promotes and remains silent about women’s subordinations, mainly about young women’s one. Thus, this backwardness was and it is lived by these women but it is assigned to other femininities, considered marginal relating to a (illusory) vantage position reached today. With this disregard, the daughters also risk to stake in the war of symbols, unknowingly sustaining other wars, removed from the daily life and based on the democratization of Middle East in which women are seen as subordinated to their men and to their backward culture. Today, different women compete with each other but they don’t perceive themselves in the similar social-situation and they unconsciously hinder the social transformation, necessary in the permanence of male-dominating tradition. In some common reflection about these issues (as a common restitution with daughters and a theater performance), it could be possible to reflect and to legitimize the drawing of some transversal issues among different stories and this could create a new knowledge about Italian contemporary society. These events could open some alternative dialogues between different femininities (but not only them) who now live together the same social structure characterized by gender issues and other migratory phenomena.
TRAMMA, SERGIO
Educazione informale; Genere; Generazioni; Patrimonio culturale; Migrazioni interne
Informal education; Gender; Generations; Cultural heritage; Migrazioni interne
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGIA GENERALE E SOCIALE
Italian
19-feb-2019
SCIENZE DELLA FORMAZIONE E DELLA COMUNICAZIONE - 91R
31
2017/2018
open
(2019). EDUCAZIONE FEMMINILE INFORMALE E PASSAGGI GENERAZIONALI. Una ricerca etnopedagogica con tre generazioni di donne dalle origini pugliesi a Milano e hinterland. (Tesi di dottorato, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2019).
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