Today, young people seem to suffer from the fragility of their future prospects and from the lack of "security" regarding their own long-term destiny. The negative aspects of this situation can be recognized through a critical analysis of the events that caused it. These changes have had mainly economic reasons. The article is based on some among the main analysis regarding a more specific pedagogical reflection on the contemporary juvenile condition. The transformations that scholars like Bauman have proposed to put an end to the social disintegration deriving from neoliberal policies are the practical consequences of his famous analysis of postmodern society and "liquid" life. The advent of the postmodern era coincided with the crisis of Western capitalism in the Seventies. The development started after the 2nd World War was stopped by the crisis of the fordist model, which followed the market saturation and the first large-scale financial speculations. According to some analysts, the same economic crisis started in 2007 had Its origins in what happened fourty years ago. The so-called "neolibarism" was the political and economic response to that crisis neoliberalism; it was a theory that puts reduction of public debt and social spending, along with the greatest possible enlargement of freedom for entrepreneurs, as the necessary conditions for economic growth. The current application of neoliberistic recipes around the world does not bring the expected results. Many data and researches indicate a substantial impoverishment of whole nations and a widespread, growing precariousness of younger generations. A pedagogical perspective that points to questioning the current pattern of economic relationships could lead to support solutions such as the so-called minimum income, or citizenship income, to overcome the crisis and lay a stronger foundation for the future of young generations.
I giovani sembrano oggi soffrire della fragilità della loro prospettiva futura e della mancanza di “sicurezza” sul proprio destino a lungo termine. Gli aspetti negativi presenti in questa situazione possono essere riconosciuti attraverso un'analisi critica degli eventi che li hanno determinati. Questi cambiamenti hanno avuto principalmente motivazioni economiche; l'articolo si basa su alcune celebri analisi al riguardo per una più specifica riflessione pedagogica sulla condizione giovanile contemporanea. Le trasformazioni che studiosi come Bauman hanno proposto per mettere fine alla disgregazione sociale derivante dalle politiche neoliberistiche sono la conseguenza pratica dell'analisi della società e della vita “liquida” postmoderne. L'avvento dell'epoca postmoderna è coinciso con la crisi del capitalismo occidentale negli anni Settanta. Lo sviluppo iniziato circa trent'anni prima si fermò a causa della crisi del modello fordista di produzione, la saturazione dei mercati e le prime speculazioni finanziarie. Secondo alcuni analisti la stessa crisi economica iniziata nel 2007 in corso ha le sue origini in ciò che avvenne quarant'anni fa circa. La risposta politica ed economica alla crisi è stata il neoliberismo, una teoria che pone la riduzione del debito pubblico e della spesa sociale, insieme al maggior ampliamento possibile della libertà d'azione degli imprenditori, come condizioni necessarie della crescita economica. L'applicazione attuale delle ricette neoliberistiche in tutto il mondo non sembra portare i risultati sperati; molti dati e ricerche indicano un impoverimento complessivo di nazioni intere e, soprattutto, una diffusa precarietà delle giovani generazioni. Una prospettiva pedagogica che punti a mettere in discussione l'attuale modello di relazioni economiche e sociali e che proponga soluzioni come il reddito minimo, o di cittadinanza, può contribuire a trovare soluzioni per superare la crisi e porre basi più solide per il futuro dei giovani.
Un futuro liquido per giovani postmoderni? / Pesci, Furio. - In: METIS. - ISSN 2240-9580. - ELETTRONICO. - 5:1(2015), pp. 114-122.
Un futuro liquido per giovani postmoderni?
PESCI, Furio
2015
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Today, young people seem to suffer from the fragility of their future prospects and from the lack of "security" regarding their own long-term destiny. The negative aspects of this situation can be recognized through a critical analysis of the events that caused it. These changes have had mainly economic reasons. The article is based on some among the main analysis regarding a more specific pedagogical reflection on the contemporary juvenile condition. The transformations that scholars like Bauman have proposed to put an end to the social disintegration deriving from neoliberal policies are the practical consequences of his famous analysis of postmodern society and "liquid" life. The advent of the postmodern era coincided with the crisis of Western capitalism in the Seventies. The development started after the 2nd World War was stopped by the crisis of the fordist model, which followed the market saturation and the first large-scale financial speculations. According to some analysts, the same economic crisis started in 2007 had Its origins in what happened fourty years ago. The so-called "neolibarism" was the political and economic response to that crisis neoliberalism; it was a theory that puts reduction of public debt and social spending, along with the greatest possible enlargement of freedom for entrepreneurs, as the necessary conditions for economic growth. The current application of neoliberistic recipes around the world does not bring the expected results. Many data and researches indicate a substantial impoverishment of whole nations and a widespread, growing precariousness of younger generations. A pedagogical perspective that points to questioning the current pattern of economic relationships could lead to support solutions such as the so-called minimum income, or citizenship income, to overcome the crisis and lay a stronger foundation for the future of young generations.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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