Drawing on Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Zygmunt Bauman, this article aims to show how performativity – the legitimation of knowledge through efficiency, measurement, and exchange – has reduced educational quality to standardized outcomes. The literature shows the interdependence of emotion and cognition and highlights the centrality of relational climates for meaningful learning. Within this framework, social-emotional education emerges as an infrastructure that makes the curriculum livable and equitable, supporting agency, belonging, and responsible decision-making. The article proposes realigning aims, means, and metrics through generative assessment, dialogic pedagogies, and a polycentric governance model that includes community pacts, thereby extending teaching quality beyond the classroom. Finally, it discusses the risks of the performative capture of socio-emotional education and outlines criteria for preserving its relational and public character.
Muovendo da Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault e Zygmunt Bauman, il presente contributo intende mostrare come la performatività – legittimazione del sapere tramite efficienza, misura e scambio – abbia ridotto la qualità educativa a esiti standardizzati. La letteratura documenta l’interdipendenza tra emozione e cognizione e la centralità di climi relazionali per apprendimenti significativi. In tale cornice, l’educazione socio-emotiva rappresenta un’infrastruttura che rende il curricolo vivibile ed equo, sostenendo agentività, appartenenza e decisione responsabile. Si propone di riallineare fini, mezzi e metriche tramite la valutazione generativa, pedagogie dialogiche e una governance policentrica che preveda patti di comunità, estendendo la qualità dell’insegnamento oltre l’aula. Si discutono, infine, i rischi di cattura performativa dell’educazione socio-emotiva e alcuni criteri per preservarne il carattere relazionale e pubblico.
Tra performatività e qualità relazionale. L’educazione socio-emotiva come critica immanente dei sistemi educativi
Farina, T.
2026-01-01
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Drawing on Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Zygmunt Bauman, this article aims to show how performativity – the legitimation of knowledge through efficiency, measurement, and exchange – has reduced educational quality to standardized outcomes. The literature shows the interdependence of emotion and cognition and highlights the centrality of relational climates for meaningful learning. Within this framework, social-emotional education emerges as an infrastructure that makes the curriculum livable and equitable, supporting agency, belonging, and responsible decision-making. The article proposes realigning aims, means, and metrics through generative assessment, dialogic pedagogies, and a polycentric governance model that includes community pacts, thereby extending teaching quality beyond the classroom. Finally, it discusses the risks of the performative capture of socio-emotional education and outlines criteria for preserving its relational and public character.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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