to responsablity….
By
Italo Bassotto – AIMC Italia
It’s a general point of view among the researchers in
sociological matters, that teaching is no more a job like other work
activities, but a “profession” and that the teachers belong to the “reflective
practitioner category” of workers. It means that teachers are involved in a
particular kind of relationship’s system, whose most important characteristics
to be absolutely free (and for this reason, responsible) of their own attitudes
in respect of students, parents and society.
Man
could argue that responsibility is a characteristic of every job in this time,
when the Taylor stand Fordism[1] principles of scientific division of work have been
abandoned and the production systems are more and more entrusted to the
individual (or of small groups) competence.
But the specific characteristic of the teaching work is that consists in
establishing and manage human relationships, and particularly thatching of
human relations called “take care”, not only in a physical sense (security,
health, ), but also spiritually (psychological, moral and social well-being).
This kind of responsibility requires not only a lot of technical skills (in
the entire spectrum of the human sciences) that must be constant updated, owing
to the steady development of knowledge in this area of science research; but
also (and especially, in my opinion) a deep and safe personal and professional
identity. In Italy we have a university professor (Elio Damiano) who published
in 2008 an in-depth study, using materials of American and
English scientist and researchers. He called his book “The ethic teacher”, and identified the main
characteristics of the moral heritage of the teachers in: .....
ETICA E VIRTÙ NELLA VITA PERSONALE E PROFESSIONALE
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