Differenza, alterità e riconoscimento nell’agire sociale. Il caso di studio: "Donna: parliamone insieme"

In the course of my experiences as a trainer and as a researcher I did not specifically and explicitly deal with gender-related issues; nevertheless the specific epistemological framework and the particular model of research-intervention that I have assumed along these activities - realized in formal and non formal contexts for the promotion of communities, groups and subjects - have in the ‘difference’ their essential prerequisite and therefore also one of their goals. This is due to the fact that they assume the construct of ‘Otherness’ as a generative and regulative principle both on the axiological and on the methodological level. I will therefore try to illustrate this model in the hope that it will return to some ex-tent useful to the scientific debate, started in this shared space, on educational and training practices, capable of carrying out transformative processes on gender is-sues. I will also illustrate one of the cases in which I was able to apply the model itself, which a group of women