Event #31

For young people, being motivated to study and the difficulty in using their role as students for their personal fulfilment are issues of crucial educational importance. In the past, the responsibility for the school drop-out rate was often attributed to damaging and educationally inadequate “out-of-school” situations. Recent experience has shown how many drop-outs are in contact with teachers who are in turn burdened by malaise and pain. And it is precisely this spiral that drives them to share a “mental dispersion” that no longer has any contents. The core of the educational work carried out by the Maestri di Strada is the community enlivened by the “thinking groups” that patiently rediscover – together with young people and in their contexts – meaning for the common effort of living. Santa Parrello will give her contribution during the workshop.