Literature currently recognizes Universal Design for Learning as one of the most innovative approaches to inclusive education. The effort to translate these principles in music education are though occasional. The Esagramma Center has developed a theoretical and methodological approach to make the…

This research seeks to explore the relationship between intelligence and creative skills or creative thinking in students with SLD. The research wants to demonstrate if there is a relation between intelligence and the dimensions of thinking creative (Fluidity, Originality, Flexibility and…

In recent years the school has been called to review the teaching strategies and methodologies used up to that point to respond to the educational needs of pupils with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysorthography. The Law n. 170 of 2010 and the related guidelines have provided teachers with a series of…

This paper aims, through the analysis of some of the latest studies conducted, to highlight the correlations between the diagnosis of SLD and the presence of emotional, social and behavioral problems. Students with SLD, often show a reduced ability to adapt to the school and relational context,…

This contribution offers an opportunity to start reflecting on the use of comics as a useful resource for improving the pedagogical skills of teachers dealing with specific learning disorders (SLD). To this end, a literature review focusing on the transformative value of comics was conducted. The…

The contribution offers a systematic review of national and international scientific contributions published from 2010 to 2024 that examines support devices for facilitating the learning of students with disabilities and Specific Learning Disorders (DSA). In constructing the methodological…

Knowing how to manage one's own study and the ability to acquire an effective study method are the basis for achieving educational success for each student, in particular for students with Special Educational Needs. The role of the teacher becomes fundamental in developing methodologies and tools…

Support services for students with disabilities and specific learning disorders (SLD) refer to the services offered by higher education institutions to promote students’ inclusion and integration in academic life. Despite extensive studies on inclusion and accessibility, the knowledge of support…

The interaction between oral and written language develops in the Kindergarten through familiarization with books, adult reading, conversation and the formulation of hypotheses on the contents of the texts read, the acceptance of the first conjectures and the first practical attempts about the…

Recent studies indicate that students with specific learning disorders (dyslexia, dysorthography, etc.) often face particular barriers in learning foreign languages (Long et al., 2023; Tanabe, 2021; Danielli & Perrucci, 2020) that rely heavily on complex reading and decoding capabilities. For…

The article illustrates an experience exploring students' study skills, cognitive styles and emotional aspects in a classroom with Specific Learning Disorders (SLDs) to raise awareness and identify strategies to improve their learning process. The methodological approach combines quantitative and…

Are the strategies I use in reading workshops appropriate to the cognitive characteristics of the pupils? Can I keep the attention of children affected by attention deficit? During participatory reading, do I consider the emotional dimension of children who are affected by reading difficulties or…

Al dibattito sulla professionalità docente contribuiscono le dieci storie di vita di maestri di un recente passato che, nel testo di Giorgio Crescenza, con un saggio introduttivo di Massimiliano Fiorucci, ripercorrono l’appassionante avventura dell’insegnamento attraverso la trama del racconto…

The volume proposes a reading of habitus as a mediator between social structures and individual practices (p.15, p.17, p. 84, p. 200), providing an emancipatory key for the subject. Indeed, Capogna articulates a dynamic view of habitus, presenting it not only as a factor of social reproduction but…

The article presents the theoretical-conceptual framework of an empirical research. It aims to examine the conceptions that a non-probabilistic sample of future teachers, in training, have about assessment: for example, the assessment of the learning product with reporting purposes is considered…

The multi-perspective dimension of the ecological transition finds a pivotal point in education for the necessary transformative shift toward a new contextual generative humanism, of thought and culture, in harmony with Mother Earth. This contribution argues that ecomuseums emerge a) as a new…

The paper offers reflections on the survey and analysis of inclusive, agentive and participatory practices at school. In this sense, the RiPIAC tool is presented, which was developed and tested within the framework of the doctoral research Figure system mediators crucial to inclusive processes at…

The relics of bishop Nicholas, transferred from Myra to Bari in 1087, brought with them a religious and, above all, pedagogical value model that was decisive in defining the sense of community; this identity platform then crossed the ocean contributing to the founding of New York. From the same…

Over the last decade, because of catastrophic events planetary and other circumscribed but that globalization makes such, young people have assumed an emotional appearance mestiziforica, syncratic neologism formed by two antithetical emotions: sadness and euphoria. The signs of the new youthful…

In 2001 the World Health Organisation adopted the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health. Then in 2009 the United Nations ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This was a genuine revolution in interpretative categories, norms and language.…

The formulation of the professional life project makes a fundamental contribution to the formation of young people’s identity, since it implies a constant confrontation between the realism of the world of work and the image that young people have of themselves. The most recent Guidelines for…

In the wake of the Pedagogy of the Environment, which assumes sustainability as an interpretative-regulatory presupposition of human education, in order to educate to have regard for human relationships and with nature, direct encounters with works of art and places emblematic of a territory holds a…

The ability to project education and its nature seems to be more a fantasy game rather than a pedagogical necessity. Looking beyond the present or the near future, heading towards that horizon of aconian memory, appears a planning necessity and a real social requirement. The need to determine and to…

In the context of Agenda 2030 and within the debate opened by intercultural and decolonial education studies, the article aims to critically discuss the phenomenon of migration through the perspective of Global Education, by deconstructing dominant power relations and divisive narratives and…

The digital transition, accompanied by the growing demand for specific skills and flexible, personalised learning methods, is redefining the approach to continuing training. A renewed paradigm that has a concrete application in the dematerialisation and digitalisation of administrative,…

The contribution intends to focus attention on the inexhaustible wealth of pedagogical stimuli that have arisen from the work of Janusz Korczak, offering some points for reflection on the conception of childhood based on respect for the child’s identity and full recognition of the centrality of…

Caring and loving, in a dynamic of motivation and support aimed at the well-being of the person, are just some of the ingredients that in today’s time characterize the helping relationship. The school world, as the main and variable context, becomes a dialogical gymnasium that opens to new and…

Epochal change that we are going through sees, among other things, the progressive and widespread diffusion of digital technology, the presence – increasingly pervasive – of mobile and touch devices made accessible also to pre-school boys and girls. More and more often, small hands and small…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as the future of humanity and often optimistically equated with a "new industrial revolution," with the idea of an algorithm influencing intimate aspects of our lives spreading. This perspective, while seeming utopian, is an everyday reality in which…

From early childhood, children begin to explore and interact with the physical environment, gradually improving their spatial skills. Understanding how this process occurs is essential for teachers because they can effectively support the development of these skills in the educational context.…

Art education promotes, encourages and enhances the construction of knowledge based on senses, empathy, creativity, understanding and contamination. It creates spaces of mediation in which diversity is no perceived as a problem but as a value, that should be preserved and promoted. Due to these…

Educational poverty is considered a multidimensional concept that goes beyond the mere lack of economic resources, including elements such as access to educational opportunities, the quality of education received and support. However, the lack of a sufficiently shared definition, which can operate…

This theoretical-conceptual paper aims to highlight the pedagogical potential of Matthew Lipman’s community philosophical practice for the education of complex thinking by elaborating its links with Gianni Rodari’s pedagogy. The analysis refers to four thematic cores: (1) narrative as a…

This paper intends to propose a critical-comparative reading of the main policy measures in the field of innovation in the organization of Public Education and Training Systems in EU countries, as implementation of the NGEU, which allocates significant resources to the innovation of Public…

The dimensions of body and “presence” are decisive in the educational relation, both for students and teachers, allow to understand and manage the unpredictability of the situations, enhance engagement and motivation, contribute to educational success and didactic innovation. The paper…

Pepper and NAO are versatile and high-performance humanoid robots that prove to be ideal platforms for human-machine interaction, cognitive computing, and autonomous navigation. These robots are particularly effective in education, establishing empathetic connections with children and fostering the…

The theory of mind (ToM), which refers to the ability to attribute mental states such as beliefs, intentions, desires, emotions, and knowledge to oneself and others (Baron-Cohen, 1985), has sparked renewed interest in current pedagogical debate (Wang, 2015; Allen, 2013). Recent research has…

Although, on the one hand, advances in all fields of knowledge have improved people’s lives, however, the current era of hyper-complexity is not exempt from numerous problems, some of which affect teenagers, children and, consequently, even adults in their different roles and responsibilities.…

The international debate on school inclusion outlines the UDL framework as a virtuous approach for the development of teaching practices able to promote both the academic success of everyone and the participation of each in the construction of a new educational culture, which is oriented towards…

Today, school books present many multimedia elements. Enhancing the effectiveness of an inclusive educational curriculum implies assessing the characteristics of materials used in the classroom. In fact, both Italian school laws and scientific literature mention specific textual properties to meet…

The adoption of the transition from grading to a descriptive evaluation in primary schools, introduced by Ministerial Order 172 of 2020, represents a significant opportunity (Piscozzo & Stefanel, 2022) for teachers to reshape their assessment methods. The evaluation model proposed by current…

Typically, individuals enter the teaching profession after completing a well-established pathway of academic qualification. Research illustrates that, nowadays, an increasing number of teachers join the classrooms after spending time in different career backgrounds and after working within a prior…

In recent years, the use of technologies in sport has become the main focus of continuous evolutions. In exercise and sports sciences degree, seizing these evolutions could represent a significant opportunity to align teaching perspectives with the sociocultural evolution of sport training…

ECEC was instituted by Law n.65 of 2017 in Italy to respond to the European and National political and educational debate. This step marks a crucial moment for the early and secondary childhood education sector and for the definition of specific training paths for education professionals. One of the…

The paper presents the effectiveness of a coaching course carried out with sixteen teachers belonging to four schools in Palermo. The coaching process was launched starting from the hypothesis that enhancing the skills of middle management in educational institutions positively affects the overall…

The contribution examines the experience received by university students with respect to the territory. Meetings have been proposed with the actors of the social partners (Community managers and entities) who reported their direct experience in the educational field. The research will be conducted…

The multimedia nature of today’s expressive contexts and communicative languages has changed learning environments and youth training needs, dematerializing relational experiences. In May 2023, two professors from the SFBCT Department of the University of Macerata offered, to their students, a…

Pedagogical documentation can be a continuous research activity that commits the educator to eschew the usual and taken for granted practices (Wien, 2011), directing him/her towards the path of listening and observation to collect data that testify to the children's progress so as to make their…

The contribution presents an experience conducted in a secondary school following a careful rereading of the Institute Self-Evaluation Report (RAV) and a long analysis by the teaching staff regarding the frequent difficulties that many students encounter in the final period of studies relating to…

Feedback is one of the most important factors in supporting study and promoting academic achievement. Engagement and motivation are considered important dimensions of feedback recipience. In a Laboratory of Educational Technology of a blended master's degree, the teacher released digital written…

As part of a project on teacher professionalism, When I Teach questionnaire has been validated, aimed at exploring certain aspects of teaching and stimulating teachers and schools to reflect on them. The dimensions explored are Self-evaluation, Critical Awareness, Openness to Confrontation,…

This contribution explores the relationship between migration, marginalization, and educational planning within a migration reception program implemented in the city of Reggio Emilia. The project, in which one of the authors actively participates and which forms the basis of a seven-year thesis,…

Teachers play a key role in supporting equitable and quality education, as also advocated by the 2030 Agenda, leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes. To achieve this, they must develop themselves as transformative agents and change-makers, especially in a post-pandemic era. To this end,…

This contribution places within the historical nexus between popular scientists and educators in STEM disciplines. It investigates the identities of communicators, be they individual or collective entities, who garner attention from educators within the sphere of social media. The study contemplates…

This paper aims to investigate, with the help of an exploratory survey, the gap that exists between the moment a disability diagnosis is communicated and the subsequent state of isolation experienced in many cases by families, and thus the role that an accompanying educational pathway could play for…

The Listening, Orientation, and Support Desk is a socio-educational service aimed at promoting social inclusion and employment integration for Sub-Saharan migrants hosted at Casa Sankara. Casa Sankara is established in the Foggia region ten years ago, initiated by a small group of African migrants,…

In the Italian National teacher Training Plan (MIUR, 2016) a profile based on three main competences emerges: teaching, organization, and professionalism; acquired via individual and context level interventions. The latter has an impact on the didactic aspects in order to realize effective,…

Teacher leadership plays a crucial role in encouraging active engagement of teachers in guiding and sharing responsibilities, not only enhancing organizational effectiveness but also significantly shaping their professional growth. This paper aims to explore teachers' perception of obstacles,…

Skills enabling individuals to face life challenges are crucial in a rapidly changing world. The European Union promotes the LifeComp framework in a lifelong learning perspective. However, how can individuals learn to unlock their potential, to self-regulate and deal with complexity? To what degree…

Among many rights the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN, 2006) also guarantees the right to receive accessible information so that no one is excluded. Based on this principle, Inclusion Europe issued Guidelines in 2009 to ensure that information is written in a way that is…

The paper presents a workshop experience conducted at the University and aimed at deepening the analysis and perception of hate speech and violence. Hate speech often takes the form of manifestations directed towards more fragile individuals or entire social groups and conveyed through mainly…

Several meta-analyses and systematic literature reviews conducted in recent decades have demonstrated the effectiveness of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in acquiring communicative, linguistic and relational skills in students with complex communication needs (CCN), including those…

The paper aims to offer a reflection on the theme of welcoming the Different (in this case, the Foreigner who flees from war, the Refugee) and on the related dimensions of hospitality, care and integration, starting from the analysis of the qualitative data emerged in research on the management of…

The development of educators' professional skills is nowadays fundamental for designing, implementing and evaluating quality educational experiences in kindergartens. The contribution refers to the initial training course aimed at educators in the nurseries of the Municipality of Foligno and intends…

The school is made by a variety of times: the time of learning, the time of teaching, the time of the curriculum, the authentic time of learning, the times of differentiated teaching, but also the time of the school calendar and the canonical time of the minutes allotted to the class hour. Time can…

The paper presents the construction and psychometric property analysis of a questionnaire (TECNOVAL) developed to investigate in-service teachers’ beliefs about the value of digital technology in instruction. The study examined the instrument’s data properties, factor structure, and reliability…

The increase in social networking accounts among the young people of the Alpha generation draws the attention of educational institutions on the possible online misinformation on health prevention topics. It is well known by now how social networks can contribute to the identity construction of…

Drawing on studies in intercultural pedagogy, informal learning and the sociomaterial perspective, the paper presents the results of a qualitative research interested in investigating what types of learning emerge as a result of frequenting stores located in a highly multi-ethnic neighborhood of a…

This paper aims to provide a reflection on accessibility and continuity in education as key elements in supporting Integrated System implementation processes, leveraging the support of interprofessional pathways and fostering family participation. International research, reports and national laws…

This pilot study investigates whether olfactory stimulation, proposed during both learning and naps for children aged 2-3 years, can impact the consolidation of a mnemonic trace. Research demonstrates how sleep plays a central role in this process, and, in early childhood, promotes brain…

This article presents a literature review, encompassing a scoping review, and a narrative review within the broader context of game studies. Inside a project focused on Classcraft in Italian secondary school, the aim is to answer the research question: Are the students actually playing while they…

The contribution aims to present the initial results of a study that sought to investigate the potential of prison libraries, conceived as privileged space for designing educational interventions aimed at supporting inclusion pathways for incarcerated individuals. Through the collection and analysis…

The article examines the specific social and training needs of migrant women from the content analysis of 60 interviews carried out in Second Language (SL) schools in the city of Rome. The feminization of migratory flows has increasingly led us to reflect on the peculiarities of the experience of…

Are information able, to influence and condition the attitude of partecipation and civintenship? Does a relationship between fear and responsible and critical civic behaviours exist? 'Globalization facilitates the formation of real media empires, controlled by the aforementioned powerful entities or…

Sport activities are an important resource for promoting the education, well-being, and social inclusion of all children. However, children with disabilities participate in these activities less than their peers due to various physical and social barriers in their environment. A full understanding…

Lo scopo di questo numero, senza alcuna pretesa di esaustività, è quello di affrontare il problema della valutazione in maniera multifocale e multiprospettica, guardando ai risultati della ricerca teorica, epistemologica, metodologica ed esperienziale più avanzata in ambito educativo e…

The promotion of learning and education well-being are two closely related factors; several studies have shown that students who experience greater emotional well-being are more likely to achieve scholastic success; conversely, those who experience greater emotional difficulties are likely to have…

According to Scriven (2000), evaluation is “the process through which the value, merit, or significance of some entity are determined” (p. 39). In line with this definition, the paper talks about the quality evaluation of the Italian school system carried out, at the national level, through the…

The contribution analyses evaluation methodologies and innovative measurement tools, used in the academic field with the support of digital tools for teaching and classifiable under the name of e-learning. The use of digital technologies in evaluation processes allows us to analyse not only…

This paper aims to explore the utility of the Economic, Social, and Cultural Status Indicator (ESCS) as a dynamic and informative measure for promoting educational equity. Beginning with an examination of its components (HISEI, PARED, and HOMEPOS), emphasis is placed on how the ESCS can contribute…

Often the end of a project manifests itself in the form of an evaluation. Where there is no learning to be certified, it takes the form of a satisfaction questionnaire or a final discussion. By presenting a thematization on evaluation in schools, starting from the perspective of general and social…

Assessment of learning is an indispensable part of any deliberate educational activity. This also applies in the case of disabilities. For this reason, it is important to stress that every, even those with severe disabilities, and their families have the right to be assessed according to the results…

The goal of this paper is to highlight the role of assessment today, analyzing it within educational contexts based on self-directed learning. In addition, the role of new technologies will be emphasized, highlighting how the high level of technologization we are experiencing allows for a twofold…

Through 3 different case studies, this article reflects on past experiences of teaching and on different interpretations of the meaning of the word evaluation in today’s changing educational sphere. Here, evaluation comes to comprise the entire experience in the classroom, from the abilities…

The School 4.0 Plan, promoter of a learning ecosystem formed by the intersection of physical spaces, schedules, activities, tools and human interactions, places a tangible space alongside a non-place produced by the society of surmodernity. The article, building on M. Scriven's (1991) reflection in…

In the framework of didactic-educational design, assessment, considered in its constructive function of the formative process (Scriven, 1967), can activate forms of complex cognitive interaction between teacher and student (Trinchero, 2023) and generate feedback useful for forms of…

The complexity of evaluation as a didactic operation must also deal with national regulations and supranational indications that somehow direct the evaluation processes. In the Italian school context, a particular case is represented by the teaching of the Catholic religion, which among the…

The paper focuses on the topic of evaluation in the Italian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system, within the framework of the national integrated education and training system, from birth to six years. Starting from an overview of evaluation as promoted in the key documents of the…

The EU documents emphasize how, for the development of effective policies and strategies for the modernization of higher education, both at the level of political accountability and at the level of individual higher education institutions (HEI), it is essential to develop a broad spectrum of data…

The aim of this article is to present those elements of assessment approaches that change as a consequence of a process of educational innovation. To this end, a multiple case study in which seven schools in Catalonia (Spain) that are implementing this innovation was carried out. The results…

The focus of the paper is an observational-descriptive study of three comprehensive schools in the Lombardy Region. It examines: the context in which teachers worked during the COVID-19 pandemic, their beliefs and practices regarding formative assessment, student learning and engagement during ERT,…

The year 2020 was a time of profound changes for elementary school support teachers, first with the d. interm. n. 182 and then with the O.M. n. 172, the latter introduced the descriptive assessment for each school discipline in place of the grade in tenths, in the periodic and final assessments of…

Vocational Education and Training (VET) aims to prepare young students for the labor market by jointly promoting vocational and transversal competences. Some of the most transversal ones, such as the Citizenship Competence (Council of the European Union, 2018), are particularly important in…

The paper reflects on satisfaction as an evaluative measure of perceived quality; in particular, on the satisfaction with the quality of the service on the part of the secondary school teachers who passed the extraordinary competition and followed the training course to acquire the 5 ECTS credits,…

The article examines a project carried out in collaboration with U.S.R. Toscana in the 2020-21 school year. The researchers designed three actions - research, training, consultancy - and analyzed 15 assessment practices in the context of the primary evaluation reform decreed by the O.M. 172/2020. A…

Assessment in HE literature states that alternative assessment approaches (Boud, 2010; Grion & Serbati, 2019; Sambell, McDowell & Montgomery, 2013) improve students' learning. At the national level, the debate on the topic is not yet widespread and the practices are predominantly…

The recognition of an active and co-responsible role of learners in assessment has grown in importance over time. In particular, the “assessment as learning” approach highlights how assessment processes contribute to the developing of learners’ competences and engagement. In recent years,…

The theme of assessment refers to a complex and multidimensional construct, in which epistemological assumptions, methodologies, tools and relational contexts converge. The present contribution intends to decline this reflection within the horizon of inclusive processes aimed at students with…

The theme of evaluation allows us to explore a reality continuously growing abroad, which is also quite widespread in Italy: the parental education. Unconventional educational experiences and traditional school paths find a common element in the evaluation of the outcomes. From our perspective, the…

The kindergarten teacher plays the role of educational guide capable of proposing learning paths that allow the children to discover himself, ensuring his centrality (Ellerani, 2013), and guaranteeing the discovery of others and of the surrounding world. Through movement, the child develops social…