Promuovere il pensiero complesso per un’educazione etico-sociale. Osservazioni a partire dall’analisi di alcuni P.T.O.F. di scuole secondarie di I grado

The paper draws the relationship between the construct of ethical-social education (Bertin, 1968) and Lipman’s proposal for an education on complex (creative, critical and caring) thinking. Starting from the idea that education on complex thinking could be a possible operational proposal for ethical-social education, some of the P.T.O.F. selected by the prin “cem - Curriculum for Moral Education” research team have been qualitatively analysed, with the goal to identify the explicit or latent meanings attributed to the practices coded as critical, creative, caring thought, the connections with those formulated by Lipman and the delicate elements, if any, to be examined in more detail. The analysed proposals outline a general framework and possible ideas for ethical-social education intervention, but the need for a clearer and problematized definition of actions supporting the realisation of the declared general aims arises, too