Educating for Forgiveness in Saleisan Pedagogy

Abstract

The question of education always comes down to the individual. In this educational process, taking place between the teacher and the pupil, the teacher makes conscious efforts to broaden and enrich the pupil’s repertoire of behaviours and attitudes. One of the important values in human life is forgiveness, which is one of those concepts subject to formation and development. It can therefore be concluded that this is a dynamic, transformative act, which not only implies a change in the inner attitude of the person who forgives, but also affects the person forgiven, causing a change in his situation. The personal experience and the thought of Father John Bosco about the necessity of education and educators for the human and Christian development of man have their roots in the Christian vision of man, in the realistic humanism that characterized him and which came from his faith and love for man. The Preventive System is mercy in action. The educational idea of Don Bosco is placed in the context of great challenges and needs, relates to the very nature of prevention and emphasized that true love requires the enduring of mistakes of others with patience and a willingness to forgive. Through love, the teacher creates a climate of true „pedagogical presence”, a creative and liberating presence, and reveals the entire multifaceted and multidimensional context of the situation and the processes of education, including educating for forgiveness.