{"id":4237,"date":"2020-10-07T16:43:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/?page_id=4237"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:21:30","slug":"educational-community-of-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/educational-community-of-care\/","title":{"rendered":"(Educational) Community (of Care)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='clear'><\/div><div id='sub_menu1'  class='av-submenu-container main_color  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  av-sticky-submenu  container_wrap fullsize' style='  z-index:301' ><div class='container av-menu-mobile-disabled '><ul id='av-custom-submenu-1' class='av-subnav-menu av-submenu-pos-right'>\n<li class='menu-item menu-item-top-level  menu-item-top-level-1'><a href='https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/' ><span class='avia-bullet'><\/span><span class='avia-menu-text'>GLOSSARY<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><div class='sticky_placeholder'><\/div><div id='after_submenu'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-4237'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  no_margin flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_submenu  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  no_margin flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  glossa-dettaglio \" style='background: #ffffff; padding:30px; background-color:#ffffff; border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>(Educational) Community (of Care)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Rosanna Cima<br \/>\nUniversity of Verona<\/p>\n<p>The term community originates from the Latin <em>communitas;<\/em> <em>munus<\/em> originally meant <em>gift, obligation, <\/em>and <em>engagement<\/em>. Gift in this case is to be understood in its dual meaning of an act generating life, matrix, maternal womb and a gift to give, that is, offering\/giving up what is most intimate for the<em> cum<\/em>, being together. This meaning of <em>communitas<\/em> shows the value of bond and debt, gratitude and reciprocity.<br \/>\nThe concept of community is employed in many disciplinary areas with different meanings: in sociology, to describe social organizations, and in anthropology to define, for example, linguistic, kin and religious communities. In general, the concept indicates a world view that is the expression of sharing in a broad sense.<br \/>\nCommunity may be understood as a continuous way of relating in which its members share spaces, times, affection, and purposes. It educates its members to a specific cultural environment, to adhere to this environment through different degrees of awareness and intentionality in well-defined places or, more widely, in daily informal experience (Tramma, 2014).<br \/>\nAccording to Simone Weil (1990\/1949), community meets the \u201cessential needs\u201d of every human being and offers security and protection through mutual respect and compliance with the laws. Each individual participates in a community and in the life of the whole similar to every single part of the human body. Cooperative relationships are based on responsibility towards the community, equal dignity and all members engaging with the others in the common search for truth. Weil evokes the image of rootedness and uprooting to convey the terms of the human pursuit for an ideal community and the risks of losing it.<br \/>\nSocial, environmental and economic transformations call for a rethinking of how we understand and live community: the multiple forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/belonging\/\">belonging<\/a> to groups and communities that characterize people and societies calls for a culture of encounter. The exercise of \u2018mutual maieutics\u2019, gratitude and interdependence (Dolci, 1972) makes it possible to process the conflicts and energies borne by differences as a measure connecting each individual community to the others.<br \/>\nThe notion of community care refers to a community\u2019s ability to take care of itself, in general, and of its members, more specifically. In particular, the school is the place <em>par excellence<\/em> in which <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/educational-practices\/\">educational practices<\/a> can be used to constitute a community of care that embracing the risk of encountering the other and engages in dialogue with the different forms of education found in society. A school, understood as an educational care community, builds <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/equity\/\">equity<\/a> by giving voice to the different communities it encompasses, collective memories, and situated and gendered forms of knowledge. Caring is a vital ordering principle in that it nourishes the relational fabric through caring for oneself, others, living beings and the spiritual sphere (Mortari, 2002).<br \/>\nThe school-community nexus of educational care contributes to developing <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/civic-and-social-engagement\/\">civic and social engagement<\/a> by focusing attention on the systems of relationships both within the school space and between it and the different external communities that constitute students and teachers\u2019 living environment. Educational work with small groups of girls and boys may activate civic and social commitment and foster the building of relationships among communities (Cook et al., 2020). When the school welcomes and learns from the community experiences of its youngest members, it becomes an educating community that is capable of being educated in turn by its students.<br \/>\nIt is this multifaceted meaning of the term community that runs throughout the different research activities of the RE-SERVES project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected references<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cook, A. L., &amp; Brodsky, L. M., Walker, W., Ruiz, B. (2020). Building Community Group Intervention: Exploring Outcomes on Multicultural and Civic Engagement Skills with Upper Elementary Students, Contemporary School Psychology, 1-17.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s40688-020-00273-1.pdf\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s40688-020-00273-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dolci, D. (1972). Inventare il futuro. Laterza.<\/p>\n<p>Mortari, L. (2002). Aver cura della vita della mente. La Nuova Italia.<\/p>\n<p>Weil, S. (1990). La prima radice. (Fortini, F., Trad. it.) SE SRL. (Originariamente pubblicato nel 1949)<\/p>\n<p>Tramma, S. (2014). Comunit\u00e0. In W.\u00a0Brandani\u00a0&amp; S.\u00a0Tramma (Cur.), Dizionario del lavoro educativo (pp.79-81). Carocci editore.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  no_margin flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='background: #ffffff; padding:30px; background-color:#ffffff; border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>How to cite this text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cima, R., (2020). (Educational care) Community. In M. Milana &amp; P. Perillo (Cur.) 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