“The City Is the Best Teacher”: A Review of the Educating City in Europe and China

作     者：Elisabetta Patrizi Xu Zhuqing Fabrizio d’Aniello Stefano Polenta 

作者机构：Department of Science Education Cultural Heritage and Tourism Macerata UniversityMacerata Italy Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED)Beijing P. R. 

出 版 物：《China City Planning Review》 (城市规划（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第28卷第2期

页      面：35-43页

核心收录：

学科分类：0401[教育学-教育学] 04[教育学] 040107[教育学-成人教育学] 

基　　金：funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No.770141 

主　　题：educating city lifelong education extra-scholastic spaces social integration metropolis form 

摘      要：The Athenians thought that a city, understood as a community made up of people with different needs and potential, had the primary task of educating its citizens, in order to favour their harmonious integration in the polis and their active participation in the polis’ *** this cultural perspective, admirably synthesized by Plutarch through the expression the city is the best teacher, we can trace the roots of the current concept of the educating *** article aims to explore the various dimensions of the educating city concept, by demonstrating, how only cities that are able to activate different educational processes(formal and informal) can be authentic vehicles of social *** this direction, the city, on the one hand, can realize every person’s potential, abilities, and rights to the lifelong education;on the other hand, the city can promote the community identity itself, as well as the self-construction of the sense of ***, also through innovative conceptual proposals for overcoming the relational and aesthetic poverty of the metropolis form of the contemporary city, fosters the perception of the city as a highly complex living organism.