LEISURE TIME
Summer is a time of holidays and lightness, so I allow myself the luxury of reflections on the school from the right distance.
I start almost as a game with questioning what is the etymology of the term “school”. I read on the Treccani website: “Term derived from the Latin schŏla (from the Greek s…
THE SUMMER BREAK
I consider the summer break to be an integral part of a psychotherapy aimed at healing. In so-called supportive psychotherapy, the summer break is instead an accident of which you try to limit the damage by maintaining contact with the patient through phone calls, texts or other ways, all things that…
SLEEP, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!
Making images or being images, what’s the difference? I took this photograph from four years ago after a little research of stories created “on the road”. Seeing it again I am struck by the girl posing smiling with one of the melons fallen from the container of the truck that had overturned along the…
“THE ETERNITY IN A JAR”
In these days I have come across the observation of Daniel Pennac on the students who “are bad at school”, those deemed “without future” that, too often, the school leaves behind, condemning them to failure at school. The author represents them as an “onion” that enters school with “several layers” o…
Diary of a CIC (Center for Information and Consultancy) during the pandemic
March 2020: the separation
Suddenly, one day in March of 2020, lockdown begins. At the same time, our online listening desk for schools opened as well.
All families find themselves living a new and unprecedented reality: parents and children, necessarily together, together forever, 24 hours a d…
The North in flames
In recent years we have seen more and more frequently the outbreak of terrible fires. It is striking that most of the regions affected by these disasters are cold and rich in water. First Russia and now Canada passing across Australia.
It is surprising to think that some of these countries, usuall…
PADRENOSTRO (LORD’S PRAYER). A DIFFERENT GAZE.
Padrenostro is an award-winning movie for the best subject at Nastri d’Argento 2021. A well-deserved award. I watched the movie by chance a few months ago, and I found it really beautiful, in many ways, but the thing that struck me in particular was how the director managed to represent the inner lif…
The exams never end
In life it can happen that every single event can have much deeper meanings than we imagine and that, even if distant in time, we carry them with us, continuing to elaborate and experiment them until we understand how much they really mean.
I am sure that someone will recognize this process in the…
“THEY DON’T WANT TO STUDY!”
A difficult school year has just ended, made up of physical distances, fragmented times, endless hours spent in front of the computer. Difficult for me as a teacher, but especially for them, girls and boys who have had to deal with a different way of living the school and their own life.
The fatef…