Un «arsenale pedagogico». Le narrazioni di Janusz Korczak come progetto formativo, educativo, intergenerazionale, politico

The article reflects on the narrative projects initiated by Janusz Korczak as a pedagog- ical and idiographic meeting space between the world of childhood and the world of adulthood and as a means for self-education, for the education of others and for social and civil recognition of the individual in the community. The Polish educator was, in fact, so convinced of the need for an adult to listen to the voice of children in order to trace the voice of his own having been a child, so as to then truly bring social and civil needs into the world of childhood and impress a political change, that he weaved and combined each of his activities with narrative practice, with the word. In the stories, in the children's novels, in the radio conversations and in the various activities organized within the orphanage there is in fact a game of projections, ex- changes and educational identifications that opens up the possibility to the intergen- erational dialogue and, therefore, according to Korczak, to a true process of affirmation and respect for children's rights.