RECONSTRUCT THE TEXTURE: THE PROFESSIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY BETWEEN FORMAL, NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING

This work presents the results of the first empirical research protocol based on the connection between phenomenology, cognitive science and pedagogy, conducted in the Laboratory of Epistemology and Practices of Education (LEPE) in the last three years and aimed at the pedagogical training of psychologists and teachers. The LEPE follows a different path than the more commonly used laboratory strategies because it doesn’t depart from a biographical analysis of the experience but from a preliminary systematization of knowledge about the educational process by means of a comparative-synchronic analysis of theoretical models of education. This analysis is preliminary to the choice and explanation of an model of action, in which the formal, non-formal and informal knowledge is interconnected. The training is aimed at acquiring meta-cognitive and self-reflection strategies in order to produce an "autonomous and responsible action" that is the result of conscious and critical “pratical” choices, based on understanding, monitoring and management of the largest number of possible alternatives.