Rethinking the educational environment as a place of belonging and building values

This paper presents the permeability and contamination between non-formal, informal and formal contexts as the core of the educational ecosystem. In the “inter-field” between capabilities and education, the paper focuses on the theme of co-responsibility and agentive responsibility: in this way it is possible to build a welfare of capabilities, such as to favor the free realization of people’s potential. From this point of view, educational practices must be able to recognize the agency of informal networks and encourage collaboration between formal and informal networks, in view of the establishment of flexible and open educational ecosystems capable of co-existing with the complexity of modern societies. In this perspective, educational processes play a decisive role in transforming learning and knowledge into choices and decisions, in the dual awareness of the person as an end in itself and of the pluralism of values.