INTERDISCIPLINARITY, ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION AS ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE “COMPULSORY SCHOOL” (MIDDLE LEVEL, AGE 11-14)

Abstract

The article reaffirms the main concepts of the Adlerian psychopedagogy and underlines how they represent a very fertile subject for the actual discussion about the new tendencies that will be introduced in the future “Compulsory School” (middle level, age 11-14). Adler invites the teachers to study pupils’ unitarian life-style, to encourage them starting from their expressive inclinations and to develop their social interest. It seems that these simple, but advanced intuitions have inspired the pre-sent and most important psychopedagogical researches, which concentrate the attention on the fol
lowing subjects:

1) interdisciplinarity;

2) alternative languages;

3) encouragement through the tea
cher’s communicative style in the class.