New Educational Paradigms after the Pandemic? The Challenge of the Educational Community

The Viceversa: Towards a Circular Education Model Project has recently been funded by the Con I Bambini Foundation with the aim of enhancing an educational community in Certaldo (Tuscany). The community is a net-work of actors who have responsibilities in the education and care of chil-dren. The more community-oriented conception partly explains the legiti-macy of care in teaching as one of its components. The interest in an open and equality-oriented education, capable of integrating the emotional sphere, is linked to the development of a perspective centered on valuable relational configurations where various actors can be involved and mutu-ally influence each other. The purpose is to strengthen the educational community building a network of collaborative relationships, fueled by a plurality of actors living in the Empolese Valdelsa territory. The actors rec-ognize the educational contribution they provide in their areas of interven-tion to ensure the well-being of children, mitigating phenomena such as social discomfort and school related distress (dropout, NEET, etc.) partic-ularly after the pandemic (Colombo, Romito, Vaira, Visentin 2022). The in-tention of the community is to create an educational and care structure capable of supporting the system of relationships among the actors, providing multidimensional responses to the educational needs of young people.