Competent educational équipe-working as a resource for the community

Abstract

Multidisciplinary équipe is increasingly mentioned in national and local interventions to support people and communities in Italy, foreshadowing some challenges awaiting all professionals and social actors, including educators and educational specialists. Èquipe-working plays multiple functions, and relies on specific skills. Multidisciplinary équipes can be adopted as a “lens” to overcome an individualistic conception of skills, in favor of a collective view that stimulates the construction of an enabling environment. By rethinking processes – such as practice-analysis-based research and the adoption of heuristics – as collective processes, we reposition educational competence and équipe skills under a different epistemology. The aim is to trigger evolutionary and generative dynamics, highlighting the need for tools related to équipe-working, and changing the structure of relationships, including those with beneficiaries.