Educating is not an activity you do alongside other activities. It is intertwined in the daily interaction with each other. Presence plays a crucial role in this.
That you are there and how you are there as an educator, makes or breaks the whole upbringing event. It was already a basic intuition of Don Bosco. He expected no more from his educators, but neither less than that they shared ordinary life with the boys in all its aspects.
Index
- Part 1: Concretizing the meaning and role of presence in ordinary life
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Who educates?
- 1.3 As an educator, who do you pay attention to from the viewpoint of your presence with the child?
- 1.4 What does the educator’s presence require?
- 1.5 Don Bosco and being present in ordinary life
- Part 2 Presence under pressure
- 2.1 Problems with presence
- 2.2 Restoring presence from new authority
- 2.3 Don Bosco and authority
Reference time period: 1884 – 2018
C. Schaumont, Presence in ordinary life, 2018.