Educational and pedagogic professions: birth, development and legal recognition. What is the role of pedagogical research?

Résumé

The growing social demand for education and training, coming from an increasingly complex social reality, has long led civil society to require professionals, not just teachers, to tackle other educational issues, including emergencies. Education professionals – albeit competent, rooted in all social settings and supported by specific university education – still lack the legal and social recognition needed to prevent their action from being replaceable
by educational surrogates. The law of 14 January 2013, No. 4, Provisions concerning unorganized professions and professional associations, legislative decree 2656, Discipline of the profession of educator and pedagogist (currently in parliament as No. 2443), and the approval of the legislative decree of April 13, 2017 No. 65, An integrated education and training system for children and young children aged from birth up to six years (representing the most innovative and qualifying part of Law 107, that of the ‘Good School’), have opened up important paths towards such recognition.