Pedagogist: His Profession, His Practice and His Toolbox

Pedagogy, as a human and social science and as a profession, has a history that has its roots in classical Greece. It has had a particularly significant evolution as Sozialpädagogik in the eighteenth-century Mitteleuropa, as was the case for other social or psychological sciences and related professions. Today, it presents itself as an autonomous science, which is also a field of transposition and integration of inputs from other sciences and other forms of knowledge, to turn everything into specifically educational purposes. The profession, in turn, takes place at the level of the intermediate applicability between theory and practice and is highly compatible with other social and health professions and open to dialogue and teamwork. With these assumptions, it is able to respond positively to the specific and new educational problems that contemporary complexity urgently poses by calling this profession into question. The chapter offers an essential, rigorous, and organic presentation of one of the new branches of General Pedagogy: Professional Pedagogy. The pedagogist carries out a higher intellectual profession whose focus is education in all social domains, and in all ages of life. A solid theoretical and methodological basis allows the pedagogist to treat individual cases using lexicon, techniques, procedures, and conceptual and operational tools of a strictly specific nature

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Il 25 settembre 2014, quando questo fascicolo di «Studi Francesi» andava in stampa, il nostro Direttore Lionello Sozzi ci ha lasciati. Nell’attesa della pubblicazione di un prossimo numero della rivista in sua memoria, il Comitato scientifico e la Redazione desiderano rendere omaggio all’eminente studioso le cui ricerche restano un punto di riferimento ineludibile della francesistica in Italia e all’estero. L’Académie de Savoie renderà omaggio al Prof. Sozzi il 15 aprile 2015 a Chambéry, Château des Ducs de Savoie, alle ore 15. Il prof. Jean Balsamo pronuncerà il discorso di celebrazione