the first European festival on creativity

2017 Programme

Event #9

Franco Lorenzoni

Weaving relationships through silence and listening

A teacher’s hardest job is to help turn a class into a small-scale, supportive community, whose members are capable of listening to one another. Community exists when we are able to surprise each other and to allow others to surprise us, when roles and positions are not set in stone. Every relationship suffers and weakens when we take our expectations of others for granted. Provided that, in culture and education, everything stems from relationships, it is around the quality of the network of relationships we form amongst each other – and between ourselves and the cultural objects we are called to explore – that the fragile web of reciprocity should be spun. Recus and procus evoke going backwards and forwards: a movement born from stepping back. If educators are not capable of taking a step back, if they are not able to keep quiet for a little, how are they going  to listen?

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Franco Lorenzoni is a primary school teacher and founded the Casa-laboratorio di Cenci in Amelia, Umbria, a centre for educational experimentation that studies ecological, scientific, intercultural and inclusion matters. For his activity he received Lo Straniero Prize with Roberta Passoni. He contributes to the following magazines: Internazionale, Cooperazione Educativa, La vita scolastica and Gli Asini. His books include: Cinque passi per una scuola inclusiva (with R. Passoni, Erickson, 2019) and – published by Sellerio – I bambini pensano grande (2014, 2021), I bambini ci guardano (2019) and Educare controvento. Storie di maestre e maestri ribelli (2023). He directed the documentary Elementare. For his educational work in 2021 he received two honorary degrees from the Bicocca University of Milan and the University of Palermo.


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Weaving relationships through silence and listening

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