Towards a contact pedagogy: community theatre experience in a municipality of earthquake zone

Abstract

The work aims to comprehend, share and “build memory” around an educational practice experienced in a municipality of the earthquake zone of Abruzzo, therefore, in a context of social crisis by means the storytelling of a social and community theatre experience (Bruner, 1956). The focus is more specifically on the nexus between the artistic and pedagogical work and the potentialities of a functional development of the community which spreads out, in a perspective of applicativity . The educationalist, as educational process and relationship professional, can offer his/her specific contribution to such above mentioned processes in attempt to recover and/or strengthen both individual and common well-being.