Parenting: awareness about the own educative role and citizen competences / Genitorialità: consapevolezza sul proprio ruolo come educatori e competenze per la cittadinanza.

Abstract

It is since a long time that the European Community highlights how parents – fundamental resource for the education of the “tomorrow’ citizens” – must be supported in the interpretation of their educative role and in the assumption of their whole responsibility with respect to the related func- tions. This paper presents the results of an ALICE pilot project dedicated to the training of parents with children aged 0-3 and realized as a laboratory of reflection through creative and informal languages. It comes to a formative proposal relative to empowerment interventions, aimed at sustaining par- ent competences and its conscious use from an educational point of view. Each meeting was organised in two phases: (a) self-reflection as parent and then as son/daughter; (b) realization of creative activities to enhance the ed- ucational quality of the relationship with their children. The participation of parents has been constantly active. The feedback obtained through a satis- faction survey and a questionnaire for self-evaluation to compare pre- and post- training has been very satisfactory