Vol. 28 No. 2 (2025): Anno XXVIII, 2-2025
Dossier - Filosofia dell'educazione: contributi teorici

‘Dove guardare’ e ‘cosa fare’: il contributo delle neuroscienze educative nella promozione di percorsi etici significativi

Mariarosaria De Simone
Professoressa associata di Pedagogia generale e sociale - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

Published 2025-12-30

Keywords

  • educational neuroscience,
  • transdisciplinary approach,
  • moral education

How to Cite

De Simone, M. (2025). ‘Dove guardare’ e ‘cosa fare’: il contributo delle neuroscienze educative nella promozione di percorsi etici significativi. Studi Sulla Formazione Open Journal of Education, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.36253/ssf-16780

Abstract

Educational neuroscience, which has progressively evolved from an interdisciplinary field into a transdisciplinary framework aimed at developing original theoretical and methodological models, appears to offer a promising, not only to overcome reductionism and neuromyths through a multilayered dialogue across neural, cognitive, phenomenological, and socio-cultural dimensions, thereby redirecting research toward authentic contexts and situated educational processes, but also, and more importantly, to orient moral education towards more inclusive, integrative, and transformative pathways, strengthening the ethical and communal dimensions of educational practice.