specific program of the course: reflection and sharing of the concept of education, the role of the educator in the contemporary era, tools, characteristics, risks of educational work; deepening of the developmental risks of minors following abandonment; the phenomenon of juvenile aggression and deviance and the forms of exploitation of the child; adolescence and the development of new forms of addiction, with a particular look at the virtual world; the meaning of social media, the avatar as an alter ego and the development of a false self. Educational tasks of the modern world and the family model and parenting today.