{"id":291708,"date":"2009-12-01T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/a-hope-for-europes-future\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:57","slug":"a-hope-for-europes-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/a-hope-for-europes-future\/","title":{"rendered":"A hope for Europe\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A very full year in Europe and beyond<\/strong>, in which the ideas of the  pedagogy of unity were brought to the attention of university teachers,  educators, teachers, young and old people interested in educational matters. In  2009, there were numerous meetings, seminars, conventions, and round table  discussions, in Catania, Benevento, Milano, Varese, Tortona, Vienna, Barcelona,  London, Cordoba, Buenos Aires, as well as in Slovenia, Macedonia and Croatia,  according to the annual report of the Central Commission of the  \u201cEdU-EducazioneUnit\u00e0\u201d.  <strong>The theoretical presentation of the pedagogy <\/strong>that has developed from  the charism of unity was accompanied by the presentation of educational  experiences promoted by the Focolare Movement.  <strong>Among these are the \u201cRaggio di Sole\u201d (Ray of Sun) nursery school in  Croatia<\/strong>, \u201cFantasy\u201d in Serbia, and \u201cPerle\u201d (Pearls) in Macedonia, where  through the use of simple and natural educational materials, children are  encouraged to exercise their imagination together with their classmates,  developing their ability to collaborate and integrate.\u00a0 The method provides hope  for peoples who have suffered years of strife and whose ability to relate to  others has been severely affected.  <strong>On 15 May Michele De Beni, member of the EdU commission<\/strong>, took part in  a seminar organised by the Faculty of Education in Skopje, Macedonia.\u00a0 There  were 120 Christian and Muslim teachers from various disciplines and countries. At<a href=\"..\/articolo.php?codart=5075\">\u201cRaggio di  Sole\u201d<\/a> the <a href=\"..\/page.php?codcat2=950&amp;codcat1=302&amp;lingua=EN&amp;titolo=culture%20of%20unity&amp;tipo=education\">\u201cpegagogy  of communion\u201d <\/a>was presented to a team from Croatian TV, who transmitted a 7  minute report. And on another occasion, forty students from the Faculty of  Philosophy in Zagreb made a study visit.  <strong>Giuseppe Milan a member of the EdU commission <\/strong>as well as director of  the Department of Educational Science at the University of Padova, was invited  to take part in the \u201cEurope Week\u201d organised by the commune of Skofja Loka in  Slovenia, where he presented the \u201cpedagogy of communion\u201d to academics and civil  and religious leaders. On that occasion the idea emerged of a collaborative  project between the universities of Padova and Ljubljana.  <strong>In the photo: a group of 4th year students and teachers from the faculty  of Philosophy Zagreb<\/strong>, during their visit to the \u201cRaggio di Sole\u201d school in  May 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009 was a year packed with meetings and seminars designed to spread the \u201cpedagogy of communion\u201d in the academic world and beyond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}