The educational relationship, being humanly determined, becomes a privileged instrument of education because it accepts the difference and recognizes the limit of the individual in the wealth of the other by himself during a time, not too short but not too long, in which he identifies as useful and fundamental, not only to promote the intentional and global growth of the educating, but also to favor mutual involvement within the community. This contribution aims to investigate the role of the family today in the society affected by the coronavirus emergency. The sense of citizenship, in such a context, tends to change transforming and adapting to the sociocultural changes that characterize the evolution of the community. Hence, we are talking of not only a health issue, but a problem of immediate educational interest, which embraces the most authentic diversity and human relationships. The family, the most relevant educational environment for the development of relationships and parenthood, today is put to the test, by a socio-educational condition in deep crisis, caused by the pandemic situation of Covid-19.
What elements can characterize the construction of the life project on the basis of knowledge of educational practice today? This is the problem that describes this contribution, and which aims to investigate, on the basis of the categories proper to social pedagogy, possible practical actions of training of the citizen. The example of volunteering, as a practice of giving, but above all the redefinition of knowledge of the practice, and the moral category of solidarity, open new and important scenarios for the young generations that at the same time demand a hermeneutic, dynamic and modifiable place. They educate the meeting, in that perspective that allows us to recognize in others the differences that characterize the aspect of equality of each person in the relationship with themself and with others.
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