Ethics, logic, dialectics: a writing and self-education experience with educators

Abstract

The article presents the method and explores the results of a collective self-training process carried out with educators who work in some local public educational and school services. The method used was inspired by the Entraînement mental developed by Joffre Dumazedier during the experience of the Ecole des Cadres d'Uriage in the 1940s and then within the French Resistance and practiced within popular adult education groups in the post-war period. Starting from the individual writing of some emblematic events of their experience in the educational field and a subsequent collective exercise of analysis of the texts produced, the group developed a series of reflections relating to the specific content of educational work, its methodologies but also the problematic relationships with their own and with the other local institutions with which they work.