{"id":9940,"date":"2012-03-13T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danilodolci.org\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:10:36","slug":"reciprocalmaieutic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danilodolci.org\/en\/reciprocalmaieutic\/","title":{"rendered":"Reciprocal Maieutic Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_pb_fullwidth_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_post_title_0 et_pb_post_title et_pb_image_below et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_title_container\"><h1 class=\"entry-title\">Reciprocal Maieutic Approach<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module preset--module--divi-text--default\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Throughout his whole life, Danilo Dolci tried to find out those connections and possible communications in order to release that creativity hidden in each person and he called this research \u201cmaieutic\u201d, taking this term from the philosophical structures, and integrating it in a social, educational and civil practice. During his life, Danilo Dolci worked closely to the people and to the disadvantaged and oppressed groups of the western Sicily in order to study the possible ways of change and the potential for a democratic social redemption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His methodological approach constitutes an important characteristic of the social and educational Danilo Dolci work: rather than spreading ready-made truths, he believes that no real change can abstract from the involvement and the direct participation of the people concerned. As a result he starts from the belief that in Sicily, as in the rest of the world, the resources for the change are present and should be searched and evoked in the people themselves. In this sense, Danilo Dolci considers the educational and maieutical commitment as a necessary element in order to create a more opened and responsible civil society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The RMA is a popular dialectic methodology of research and self-analysis tested by Danilo Dolci starting from the 50s and by the present Centre for the Creative Development within the educational and sociological field nowadays. This approach promotes a sense of responsibility in the communities and individuals and can be defined as a \u201ccollective exploration process that considers individuals\u2019 experience and intuition as a reference point\u201d (Dolci, 1996). The RMA was developed by Danilo Dolci from the concept of Socrates\u2019 maieutic. It derives from the ancient greek \u201c\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9\u03b5\u03c5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2\u201d that literally stands for the midwife art: each educational act is like giving birth to all the inside potentials of the individual that wants to learn, as a mother wishes her baby is born from her womb. Socrates\u2019 maieutic compares the philosopher to the \u201cmidwife of knowledge\u201d that doesn\u2019t fill the student mind with a priori information, but helps him bring his knowledge to light, using the dialogue as a dialectical tool. What makes the difference between these two concepts is the fact that Socrates\u2019 maieutic is unidirectional, whereas Danilo Dolci thinks knowledge can arise from experience and its sharing, and then requires reciprocity in communication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Danilo Dolci\u2019s RMA, as a result, is based on the sharing process of answering, exploring and creating. As the name itself recalls, the RMA is a \u201creciprocal\u201d process between at least two people and it normally develops within a group, with a person that starts asking some questions and other people that search for the answers together and make other close examinations. In an intense dialogue that stands for a new way of education based on increasing individuals\u2019 and group\u2019s creativity, the maieutical process concentrates on the capacity of people potential to discover their vital interests and freely express their own reflections basing both on their experiences and their personal discovers and on the choral verification of the proposals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The maieutic workshop needs everybody to question and uncover themselves in front of the others, and with the others to start a common research path of analysis, testing and creative co-education.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_button_module_wrapper et_pb_button_0_wrapper\"><a class=\"et_pb_button_0 et_pb_button et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\" href=\"https:\/\/en.danilodolci.org\/projects\/#maieutica\">Some of our projects on Reciprocal Maieutic Approach<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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