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The chapter develops insights about the role of stories in caring relationships, the training of professionals and the development of knowledge, awareness and skills, thanks to the use of narrative methods, in settings of cooperative and participatory inquiry. At an individual level, the biographical origins of professional vocation/identity and its meaning can be explored thanks to stories, and more generally the subjective dimension of professional development can be focused on. At a more relational level, stories can be used to develop a better knowledge about the ongoing (caring) relationship. At an institutional level, and even a larger social and cultural level, these methods can foster a critical view of practices in care and bring to new forms of action.

Il contributo si focalizza sull'intreccio tra educazione e narrazione,evidenziando le diverse possibilità dell'aver cura riconoscibili proprio in base a questo intreccio. Utilizzando come esempio la famosa vicenda del Sauvage dell'Aveyron, il saggio mostra come ogni scelta o pratica educativa sia abitata da una o più "narrazioni", intese come insiemi di trame di significati e di visioni del mondo latenti e non sempre consapevoli che orientano la percezione individuale, la possibilità di costruire sapere, e, quindi, le pratiche stesse. In particolare, il saggio evidenzia la compresenza, nelle pratiche educative, di due grandi tipologie di narrazioni: una orientata alla diagnosi e una orientata all'etica della cura. La vicenda del Sauvage, letta alla luce della compresenza di queste narrazioni, permette di focalizzare tre questioni pedagogiche: le condizioni che soggiacciono alla possibilità di innovare le pratiche educative come strettamente correlate alle narrazioni sottese ad esse; la problematicità degli effetti delle pratiche educative in quanto risultante di più dimensioni, evidenti e latenti, in gioco; l'esigenza di promuovere consapevolezza sulla trama di narrazioni che abitano le pratiche educative.

New and often aggressive treatment schemes allow the successful healing of many young patients with cancer, but the price the young women have to pay is high: many of them lose ovarian function and fertility. Due to the improved long-term survival of adolescents and young women with malignancies undergoing gonadotoxic chemotherapy, preservation of future fertility has been the focus of recent ubiquitarian interest. A feasible solution is the cryopreservation of ovarian tissue. Ovarian tissue, after thawing, can be used in three different ways: 1. grafted into its normal site (orthotopic); 2. grafted into a site other than its normal position (heterotopic), necessitating recourse to in vitro fertilization (IVF); 3. grown and in vitro matured in order to obtain metaphase II oocytes for an IVF program. It is believed that protein supplementation, in cryopreservation solution, is essential for improving ovarian tissue cryopreservation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ultrastructural appearance of human ovarian tissue cryopreserved in 1.5 M 1,2 propanediol (PROH), 0.2 M sucrose using different protein sources: fetal calf serum (FCS), plasmanate or syntetic serum substitute (SSS). Fresh and frozen/thawed ovarian tissues were compared by transmission electron microscope (TEM), to evaluate the appearance of stromal and follicle cells as affected by different protein sources. Our data indicate that FCS is a better protein support for ovarian tissue cryopreservation when compared to SSS or Plasmanate. In addition the follicles are more resistant to the cryopreservation with respect to stroma.