austraLasia #3139
The bulk of Braido's study of the
Preventive System now available
ROME: 5th October 2012 --
Twelve years have passed since Peter Braido published his Prevenire non reprimere, Il
sistema educativa di Don Bosco, or in English, Prevetnion, not Repression: Don
Bosco's educational system.
And that's the point! Now that we are in or about to enter
(depending
on where you are) the second phase of preparation for the
Bicentenary,
Braido's work is regarded as a sine qua non for the study of
Don
Bosco's educational approach, but it has thus far been
unavailable to
the English reader who has no or little Italian.
The
work in question has 19 chapters. 18 of these have been
translated thus
far. The 19th, 'Looking to the future', is a lengthy one, and
the
translator is still working on it! But the 18 thus far
completed are
quite sufficient for anyone wanting to get to grips with the
material.
As
is customary for an academic work, there are abundant
footnotes! These
notes in themselves are a book! Obviously titles must remain
in the
language in which they were cited, but he translator has
attempted to
put into English any reference which might help the reader,
even at
times breaking the 'rules' so to speak for translation of
footnotes. It
seemed pointless to just copy and paste notes which would be
of little
advantage to someone who had no idea what they were saying.
When the entire work is complete, with bibliography and index
etc.,
then perhpas the 'powers that be' will be interested in a
printed
English edition, but for now it seems that the important thing
is to
get this work into the hands of anyone who might find it
helpful. My
guess is that there are a considerable number of such people
around!
The work is available
in SDL at the link indicated here,
but if you are searching for it at other times, go to the
English
collection and look for it under Braido as author. Each
chapter is
separate, so you might need or want to download 18 separate
items
(nineteen if you include the introduction, which you should.
Don't
forget that documents downloaded from SDL are called doc.doc
generically, so you would want to rename the first part of the
file
accordingly, otherwise you will get lost in 19 doc.docs!