{"id":327064,"date":"2015-02-10T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/education-a-treasure-chest\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:59:32","slug":"education-a-treasure-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/education-a-treasure-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"Education : a treasure chest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P\"<\/a>An educational agreement to be built in harmony between the families, civil and cultural institutions. This is the idea on which the project of Scholas Occurrentes <\/strong>(schools that respond to the needs of the population) <\/strong>is based<\/strong>, created in Argentina launched by former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, J.M. Bergoglio and relaunched today at international levels. The aim of the \u00abScholas <\/em>is to <\/em>integrate in some way, the educational efforts of all, and rebuild the educational agreement in harmony, since only with the harmonization of all those in charge of educating our youth and our children, can education bring about change. This is why Scholas <\/em>seeks to integrate education with culture, sports, science; this is why Scholas <\/em>tries to build bridges, to move out of the \u201csmall-scale\u201d and seek these aspects further beyond. Today this interaction of knowledge is being actualized in all continents, \u00bb Pope Francis stressed<\/strong> at the end of the 4th<\/sup> World Congress held in the Vatican from 2-5 February. The climax of the congress<\/strong>, was the video link up with some disabled adolescents who participated in the inclusive scholastic programme of the 400,000 schools participating in the project. Among them was a 13 year old visually-impaired girl, Isabel, who loves athletics and asked the Pope to tell all those who suffer impairments \u00abnot to give up, because with some effort, they can achieve their goals.\u00bb Yes, because \u00aball of you have a treasure chest inside \u00bb, Pope Francis said in his video message<\/a>, \u00aba great treasure. Your task is to open the chest, bring out that treasure, nurture it, share it with others, and also receive the treasure of others.\u00bb More than 250 participants<\/strong>, among which, the major experts in the field of education and social responsibility, those professing different creeds and cultures, and delegations of sports organisations, as well as representatives of the world of art, show biz and culture, ITC companies that, through the most advanced technologies, help to \u00abcreate a classroom where all are welcome,\u00bb as Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda del Corral, Scholas Director declared. \"20150210-01\"<\/a>And therefore rediscover,<\/strong> the educational itinerary game, education in beauty, rediscovery of harmony between the \u201clanguage of the brain \u201d and the \u201clanguage of the heart\u201d which are the educational programmes the Pope outlined in his speech. It was the spark that lit up in the hearts of the players in the game, presented at the Scholas convention, and who in the previous days had share their experiences, research studies and educational projects in which learning and solidarity merge in a pedagogical strategy open to all: students with particular educational needs, dependence, poverty, care of the environment. To this regard, amongst others, were also some projects of the Focolare, such as the Udisha project in India<\/a>, mobilization against gambling, with the Slot Mob project <\/a>in Itay, the Living Peace<\/a> project in Egypt. Furthermore, two morning sessions were dedicated <\/strong>to <\/strong>deepening the pedagogy of Learning and Solidary Service, developed in the United States in the 60s and promoted over the last twenty years by Maria Nieves Tapia<\/strong> of the Focolare <\/a>together will many others of the many networks and ogranisations. The CLAYSS <\/a>(Latina American Centre for learning and Solidary Service,) undertakes to integrate this with dialogue and research studies on fraternity and pro-social activities. The main pedagogical theories were presented at the Congress by Carina Rossa<\/strong>, of Education towards Encounter and Solidarity (EIS<\/a>)\u00a0LUMSA and Education and Unity (EDU<\/a>), theories which the Scholas network is trying to implement. \u00abThe youth are the ones who will benefit\u00bb, concluded Pope Francis,<\/strong> underlining the importance of this work which builds bridges between the youth of all nations and creeds, educating them towards peace and fraternity. He then affirmed: \u00abWe will not change the world if we do not change education \u00bb. This is a real \u00abrescue plan\u00bb put into action, as he had said on other occasions, to limit the reject <\/em>culture which leaves no room in society for a generation of children and adolescents, and continue believing that \u00ablife is a great treasure, but which is meaningful only if shared with others. \u00bb To participate in the project, consult: www.scholasoccurrentes.org<\/a> The Pope\u2019s entire speech <\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every educator\u2019s mission is to help children bring out the treasure they have inside and share it with others. The Scholas Occurrentes convention held in the Vatican, focused on the social-educational responsibility of schools that should really be \u201cclose\u201d to citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-327064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327064","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}