Communicative relationships in hybrid learning environments. Safeguarding an ethical space and cultivating humanizing contexts

This essay is a pedagogical reflection on the value of education as a communicative process, rooted in an ethics of educational language, in respect of the ontological dignity of the interlocutors. This in light of ICT (Information and Communications Technology), which have a clear educational power and which give rise to hybrid communicative contexts, within which it is necessary to operate with an ethical, as well as digital, awareness and competence. By tracing an ethics of communicative relations, the article focuses on the possibility to consider the new operational teaching tools for the contribution they can offer to the construction of the human. This viewpoint recalls the need to ethically inhabit hybrid learning environments, increasing the person's ability to reflect and make decisions even with respect to the virtual world, as well as choosing good relationships, capable of reaffirming and safeguarding the relational structure of the human being. The heuristic-hermeneutic perspective assumed traces insights that are useful for supporting the being in formation, so that he may also be guided in the virtual world and regain, or not lose, the uniquely human ability to be a moral individual. There is a clear pedagogical-educational requirement: to realize an educational environment that is truly a humanizing life context, that is, a place where a person can discover his own humanity through the encounter with the humanity of others.