MeTis - Mondi educativi. Temi indagini suggestioni

MeTis is an International Open Access and peer-reviewed journal of Pedagogy and Education. The purpose of MeTis is to allow suggestions, contaminations, hybridations among Pedagogy and all human sciences. In this way, we intend to enlarge the scapes of reflection and problematization, knowledge and paxis, choise and guidance.

MeTis in range A (ANVUR) for sectors 11/D1 and 11/D2.

Difference is Scary: Education as a Counter to Violence and for the Promotion of a Culture of Otherness. Number 1/2025

2024-05-28

Issue Editor: Isabella Loiodice, Anna Grazia Lopez

How can we resist violence and persist in counteracting it, and indeed, expand the power and spread of education in the multiplicity of places of life and experience? How can we "enter" the mechanisms of construction of stereotypes and prejudices to try to deconstruct them, opposing them with logics and practices of real knowledge and mutual understanding?

Starting from an in-depth study of the construct of "difference," the authors are asked to explore the real possibilities of rewriting the relationships between genders, cultures, ages, and psychophysical differences. They should propose forms, languages, and contexts through which educational action can promote respect and recognition of all forms of otherness.

Deadlines: Abstract submission (email metis@progedit.com only): 05 November 2024 Submission of proposals (only via the Journal's OJS platform): 01 April 2025 Publication: June 2025

The childhood of dictatorships

2023-04-04

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The latest data from the Democracy Index, edited by the Economist Intelligence Unit's, returns a patchy world map where only 6.4 percent of the world's population involved in the survey lives in contexts that can be considered “fully democratic”.

This obliges researchers to take a careful epistemic-methodological posture, marked by the analysis of the historical-material conditions of education, in order to derive the pedagogical patterns (explicit and implicit) that guide the formation of the imaginaries, ethical tables, and formae mentis of childhoods.

What does it mean “the childhood of dictatorships”? what childhoods are born and have been born in dictatorships? what “childhoods do dictatorships communicate”?

We ask the authors to document and retrieve reflections, narratives and stories (present and past) that give voice to childhoods “in” and “of” dictatorships, in order to broaden the meaning of living, surviving and resilient in contexts with little or no democracy.

Deadlines:

Abstract submission (only by mail to metis@progedit.com): 15 May 2024

Paper submission (only by MeTis OJS platform): 15 Oct 2024

Pubblication: Dec 2024

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2024): Living "without" working

Can anyone live without work? Work is a common good, isn’t it?
It has been years since a famous volume by Rifkin titled “The End of Work” and Aronowitz's “Post-Work Manifesto” which envisioned a new society in which we work to live and do not live to work. While on the one hand, this increases complex phenomena such as unemployment and the substitution of machine for man, paradoxically, on the other, open up possibilities for rethinking the relationship between life and work, even to the point of considering the possibility of working less to live better.
This possibility, which, in the twenty-first century, especially in the post-pandemic era, has found its most extreme manifestation in the phenomena of great resignation and quiet quitting that tell of men and women willing to give up a secure job, to “work less” for quality work or to “distance themselves” and give new meaning to professional activity in order to recover and not lose the dignity of the subject-person and the quality of life.
But can one really live ”without” working?

This issue of MeTis wonders about the sense of what “living without working” means in pedagogical-anthropological terms, looking at the two extremes of unemployment and precariousness and, on the other hand, the phenomenon of “great resignation” and “quiet quitting”: as Nussbaum said, freedom lies in being able to choose.

Published: 2024-07-12