Places of Educational Care: from Pedagogical Category to Instrument of Inclusion

The category of Care, as an ontological category of pedagogy, represents one of the theoretical architraves and empirical perspectives that animate and guide educational theory-practice. It is clearly distinguished from the care practised in the medical-health field, because taking 'Care of' means, according to the pedagogical perspective, considering two directions: on the one hand is Self-Care (that is attention to the Self), and on the other hand as the development of all the potentialities of the person we are taking care of.