The course aims to explore the relationship between training and research. This exploration will try to observe the consequences that the experimental logic has on the way of understanding the relationship between theory and practice in the educational, educational and pedagogical field. In this model the practice directly intertwines the construction of ethical values, the importance of situating the educational event, the life story, the experience, the aesthetics of existence in its specific historical-cultural contexts and refers to an idea transformative of knowledge, knowledge and construction of oneself and of the Self which has greatly influenced the discourse of educational sciences, especially from the nineteenth century onwards.

The knot between research and training as well as becoming significant on the methodological level, since it generates practical options and possibilities for field research, especially in adult education, allows us to observe the structure of the training experience. The epistemological frames, the methods, the representations, the languages ​​will be object of an active critical reflection and elements elaborated individually and in groups to develop an awareness on the theory and ethics of the practice of research in the pedagogical field.

J. Dewey, Le fonti di una scienza dell'educazione, Editrice Fridericiana, Napoli ;

R. Sennett, L'uomo artigiano, Feltrinelli, Milano;

G. Benvenuto, Stili e metodi della ricerca educativa, Carocci, Roma;

M. Sclavi, Arte di ascoltare e mondi possibili,Bruno Mondadori, Milano;