{"id":49879,"date":"2012-11-08T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/approach-to-education\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:41:51","slug":"approach-to-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/approach-to-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Approach to education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Approach to education<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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CESIE was founded in 2001 inspired by the work of Danilo Dolci<\/a>. The work of the sociologist, educator and poet -who arrived in Sicily in the early 1950s - was characterized by the use of nonviolent methods (\u201creverse\u201d strikes, collective fasts, peace marches) and by working together with local people in the conception, development and organisation of every single activity. He also worked closely with teachers and university professors, as well as students and parents, in the grass roots transformation of the educational process\/system using an approach that focused on the needs and motivation of the individual.<\/p>\n

CESIE has transferred many key aspects of Danilo Dolci\u2019s work into its own educational activities including the Reciprocal Maieutic Approach<\/a> (a popular dialectic methodology of research and self-analysis) created and tested by Dolci for many years.<\/p>\n

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Approaches and Methods<\/h2>\n

We base our work on:<\/p>\n