Supervision and educational work. The pedagogical core in the spaces of lifelong learning

Abstract

Educational work is complex, and requires professionalism now recognized in the regulatory field (Law 205/2017), which should also be supported by supervision, a tool and opportunity to experiment with processes of connection between theory and practice, shared reflection, search for meanings that can translate into coherent operational strategies. Despite the formal and institutional recognition of the importance of lifelong learning, in organizational realities such spaces are drastically reduced by the nonrecognition of supervision considered a luxury or an occasional service. Among the many points of view, pedagogical supervision, on the other hand, must be recognized as an indispensable tool of educational work, able to stimulate and support the search for meaning in educational actions, encouraging educators to place the events in a project framework and for which a permanent, non-emergency and contingent space must be guarded.