Emilia Mosca. Educatrice e testimone autorevole

Riassunto

L’articolo presente la figura di Emilia Mosca di san Martino, prima Consigliera scolastica generale dell’Istituto delle Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice. Il contributo di carattere organizzativo che Emilia Mosca diede alla scuola salesiana nascente si armonizza con quanto ella seppe consegnare alle giovani e alle prime generazioni di educatrici con l’autorevolezza della sua vita e testimonianza. In particolare con l’adozione del Sistema preventivo di don Bosco che pone al centro la relazione educativa, conferendole il carattere dell’arte maieutica. Guidata da una visione antropologica solidamente ancorata ai principi dell’umanesimo pedagogico cristiano, seppe collaborare e far convergere la comunità attorno alle finalità educative della scuola. Un’educatrice che diede un apporto originale alla prassi del metodo salesiano agli albori dell’Istituto delle Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice.

Summary

This article present Emilia Mosca of san Martino, who was the first General School Counselor for the Institute of Daughter of Mary Help of Christians. The organizational structure that Emilia Mosca was able to give the newborn Salesian School harmonized with what she knew how to give to youngsters as well as to the first generation of educators through her life and witness. It was particularly with the adoption of the Preventive System, which placed the educational relationship at the center, that she was able to form. She was guided by an anthropological vision solidly grounded in the principles of Christian humanism, and knew how to collaborate so that all the activity of the community converged on the educational goals of the school. She is an educator who gave an original contribution to the Salesian educational method and that dawning of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.