Eleventh International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Importance of experience in education is held as consensual by the various current pedagogical tendencies. Teachers and educators in general agree that knowledge and skill are only solidly acquired when obtained through the experience of the learner. Experience allows for an access to reality that becomes a personal conquest, in which the person no longer depends on the educator for verification, critique, or personal ownership of what is learned. The central nature of experience in education requires an understanding of what is meant by experience, how contact with reality becomes experience and what the role of education is in encouraging personal experience. Through this study, we aim to present the thought of Luigi Giussani (1922-2055), the Italian philosopher and educator, with a vast number of published works, whose approach to experience lies at the origin of numerous schools and other educational projects in various countries and continents. Giussani has been the subject of many books, academic studies and colloquia of international range. Based on a non-systematic literature review, we intend to understand the novelty in what Luigi Giussani brought to the comprehension of the concept of experience and the relationship between experience and education.