Educommunication of Don Bosco and the formation of university as good citizens

Abstract

Talk about Don Bosco’s educommunication is to analyze a topic of great importance and interest in the field of education and communication, it not only implies knowing about the field of study of the mentioned disciplines and their contextualization by interdisciplinary joining, its objective is to know the teaching methodology called the Preventive System used by Don Bosco to educate young people whom he trained as good citizens, teaching with love, reason and kindness, pedagogical procedures that have served as teaching techniques up to our times. This research covers the concept and origin of educommunication, its development and expansion throughout Latin America, the United States and Europe. Don Bosco’s preventive method is exposed, its positive impact on the formation of young people in Italy and its replication and applicability in different countries, as well as in Ecuador where the Salesian community has used it during the educational processes of several generations. The applied methodology was the descriptive explanatory qualitative type, the same one that is exposed thanks to a complete inductive reflective study and in-depth information, based on the bibliographic and theoretical review from previous studies. The results obtained propose the options and the teaching methods implicit in the Don Bosco preventive system, research that can be applied by teachers during the training of university students.