The tutor is a valuable ally in the educational process because he or she helps parents and children grow together.
In the educational system of CEFA Schools, the figure of the tutor is a privileged interlocutor, since he or she helps parents in their educational role.
Parents are the first educators of their children, and this is a role that should by no means be taken away. But, at the same time, today's parents have a great need to be supported in this function.
Parents need to be told that they have talents, abilities that naturally belong to them. These abilities belong to an ancestral relationship between parents and children that makes each parent's sensitivity capable of deeply grasping their offspring’s needs. Even when they probably do not know how to meet these needs, how to respond to their needs.
From this point of view, the tutor plays an extraordinary role of cultural mediation, but also of affective and relational mediation. Since he/she helps and advises parents on how to best support their children: not only in learning processes, but especially in the process of personal growth.
Therefore, in CEFA Schools, the school and the family work in harmony in defining the educational and didactic path.
CEFA 4 Family is the column of CEFA Schools designed to collect and offer practical and useful advice to become aware parents and support their children in their growth.
Psychotherapist, specialist in clinical psychology and child neuropsychiatry is Professor of "History of Medicine and Human Sciences" at the University "Campus Bio-Medico of Rome," where he directed the "Department for Educational and Teaching Research" for more than 15 years. She is a member of several institutions, including the "National Committee for Bioethics." She was a Senator of the Italian Republic from 2018-2022.
