Education
Dean: Prof. Domenico Simeone
The Faculty of Education has a rich and solid tradition, which is intertwined with those of Università Cattolica. Founded first as a Higher Institute of Education in 1923 and then as a Faculty of Education in 1936, its name has been linked to those of illustrious masters, such as Aldo Agazzi, one of the most authoritative pedagogues of the twentieth century, and Enzo Noè Girardi, a well-known literary critic and dean of the Faculty from 1983 to 1992.
Education has three perspectives: the individual as a person, as a subject in himself, [...] and the individual as a being to be socialized and civilized, that is, to be made an interactive and conscious subject of society and a participant in the values of culture and civilization developed by the human race before it was born.
The Faculty of Education of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, rich in a great tradition, has always focused its attention on educational problems concerning the human person, understood in all his or her dimensions.
To this end, and in order to respond adequately to the challenges of contemporary society, it elaborates and develops innovative results in pedagogical research, in constant interdisciplinary dialogue with the various human sciences. This link between solid foundations and new perspectives of education, according to a personalist vision, is the strength of the Faculty of Education, active not only in Milan, but also in Brescia and Piacenza.
Since its inception, it has prepared generations of teachers for Italian schools. Today, it is above all a laboratory of education: a place where the most professionalizing disciplines are intertwined with different fields of knowledge, from psychology to sociology, from philosophy to history, from literature to law, thus giving shape to those "educational sciences" which, on the basis of a consolidated tradition of research, provide an exhaustive vision to address, with solid competence, the organizational dynamics of the world in which training interventions are deployed.
I believe that the contemporary university, while it has the duty to collaborate for the progress of the sciences and to follow the methodology required by each of them, must never put in second place what requires the recognition of its primacy, that is, man, the human person, the world of spirituality