Personalismo e pragmatismo pedagogico: due forme di narrazione pedagogica a confronto. Ipotesi di un incontro possibile

The main aim of theoretical research in education is twofold: on the one hand, the study of practice in order to improve the educational function on the field, on the other hand the development of a theoretical research that constructs a pedagogical thinking speculatively pure around education/ human educability. Along a continuum and in a complementary relationship ranks applied research which tends to check possible solutions to concrete problems. The close link between theory and practice is realized in the passage that implements the pedagogy of subjecting the theoretical models of hypothetical deductive to empirical verification. In pedagogy we can talk about scientific theory when it has to do with articulated systems of ideas that form the skeleton of the discipline. The aim of such systems is to shed light on the realities of practice, investigated through hypothesis that can become practice both experimentally as well as by speculative. The systems of knowledge of pedagogy that make it a theoretical science, practice, metatheoretical and theoretical, study education as a process, route, relationship, instrument and order, system, and freedom, materiality and spirituality, nature and culture... [edited by author]