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…

The contribution deepens the evaluation practices with a specific focus on the induction phase of the newly hired teacher and the strategic function of training and peer observation activities carried out with the mentor teacher (Bleach, 2013; Magnoler, 2018; Fiorucci & Moretti, 2019, 2022). The…

This study explores the relationship between school climate variables and students’ resilience and social-emotional skills. Eight aspects of the school climate were examined, including Teacher Support for Learning, Teacher Support for Relationship Building, Social and Civic Learning, Social…

The contribution reported here aims to describe photovoice experimentation as an image-based didactic experience carried out in higher education. The multicultural change that characterizes the academic context, in which this pedagogical experience has been realized, is a challenge for professors,…

In primary school, pupils often use drawings to express themselves, but it is rare for these drawings to be used to evaluate educational experiences. A study in Verona, Italy used drawings to better understand the impact of Mixed Reality (MR) technology on heritage education for 132 fifth-grade…

This paper presents the results of an evaluation research project conducted at the University of Milano-Bicocca's Master's Degree Program in Teacher Education. The research used a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to: a) describe the changing socio-demographic and occupational profiles of…

Feedback is considered as a primary component in formative assessment, as well as one of the factors that has a great influence on student learning. The paper aims to illustrate and evaluate the results of an investigation in which the use of feedback, and in particular peer feedback, is promoted in…

Some research has shown that pedagogical postures and meaningful relationships between teachers and students oriented towards a highly inclusive evaluation process, because it is negotiated, participatory, and pedagogically based, can produce benefits in performance, in the involvement of the…

The issue of educational evaluation has long attracted the attention of stakeholders, engaging them in debates of a different nature (Scriven, 1991; Corsini, 2015). This contribution emphasizes comparative evaluation and the levels within which this takes place (OECD, 2013). The objective is to…

This paper presents the results of the monitoring of the activities implemented under measure 5 ("Extracurricular Internships") of the Youth Guarantee Programme, funded by Regione Campania and reserved specifically for undergraduates and graduates with disabilities under the age of 35. After…

In the school context, learning to understand the reason for an evaluation is certainly one of the most arduous challenges that students try to accomplish on a daily basis. The active guidance of teachers can effectively help in this continuous reflection that accompanies each person throughout…

Evaluation allows students to become aware of their own educational process with the acquisition of disciplinary contents and skills and competences connected to them; however, it is also an educational moment because it can guide students' attitudes, improving the subjects and contexts involved. In…

The paper intends to propose a reflection about the kind of university training to provide to educa-tion professionals, now more necessary than ever. This considering the social complexity that is affecting the whole Europe and that makes increasingly worrying the working environment of these…

Nel dibattito dinamico sull’educare, sull’insegnare e sull’apprendere nella contemporaneità, caratterizzato dalla pervasività delle tecnologie digitali e da un’attenzione particolare alla valorizzazione delle differenze individuali, il concetto dell'istruzione adattiva emerge come utile…

The introduction of transversal teaching of civic education in schools has the purpose of preparing the new generations to insert themselves in the social context in an active and productive way. The city is not just a place to live but a pedagogical object, a laboratory space, a context of dialogue…

While connecting young people with the contemporary media we often focus on the risks of the network and the need to educate minors to the digital thanks to the work of teachers and educators; not always the know-how of those who play an educational role is adequate to the task, by means of…

Some recent documents on happiness and well-being among citizens are the starting point for a reflection on the inter-human relationships; these are explored in this contribution in order to draw attention to some words, to give shape and content to a "language of care". Indeed, it is precisely in…

In Italy, during the Fascist period, political confinement was added to the common confinement intended to exclude the opponents of the regime from civil society, relegating them to inaccessible places with almost no communication routes. Among these localities is Ventotene, a small island in the…

The objective of school educational assistance is to improve the learning and socialization processes of the pupils with disabilities by working on complex autonomies and intervening in an inclusive perspective. According to the law 104/1992, the management of the service belongs to the local…

The integrated system for early childhood education from 0 to 6 years, an educational ecosystem interconnected with the local area and its policies, aims to guarantee all children equal opportunities to develop their potential by strengthening alliances with families and networking with all…

To date, WHO estimates that more than one billion people need assistive technology, but that only 10% of them have access to it. The article aims to analyze the current model of territorial prosthe-tic assistance, highlighting all the epistemological-cultural and practical difficulties that the…

In recent years, the concept of the “learning city” has acquired great relevance in the pedagogical debate, which has focused above all on the possibility of combining efforts aimed at expanding educational opportunities in a lifelong and lifewide learning perspective with the instances of…

Video analysis, understood as a device for teacher training, has progressively adapted its tools to technological innovations: from analogical Microteaching to digital Videoannotation up to the current enhancement made possible by their integration into Artificial Intelligence systems. What tools…

The metaverse, a participatory and shared three-dimensional space, the result of multiple technological elements including video, virtual reality and augmented reality, proposes an ad hoc learning context in which direct interaction with the contents offers the opportunity to experience a more…

In order to consider desire as a main category of contemporary Italian pedagogy, Education cannot be divorced from hegemony in terms of a “pedagogical relationship”. Inheriting the Gramscian instances, Pasolini builds a “pedagogy of desire” because the poetry is the magic key that creates…

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education is becoming increasingly important in today's society, as technology continues to advance and shape our world. However, effective STEM pedagogy requires more than just teaching these subjects in isolation. It involves creating a…

In the light of the indications and guidelines for the implementation of the PNRR measures (M4 C1) relating to Investment Area 1.6 'Active guidance towards school-university transition' and the indications provided by Ministerial Decree no. 934/2022, universities are called upon to implement 15-hour…

The migratory choice represents a planning action in the course of which various transition dimensions arise: spatial, emotional, cultural, social status, alphabetic, linguistic, professional, citizenship. The immigrant adult goes through a process of recontextualization of his personal and cultural…

Barriers and facilitators represent two substantial constructs for the design of an inclusive teaching aimed at students with Special Educational Needs, but they must be analyzed within an epistemo-logical framework that avoids a simple list of elements. This contribution illustrates the research…

Recent years have seen a change in the way pre-school children play and learn. In this regard, experts are increasingly questioning how effective the use of technologies is in educational and training contexts and how digital applications can facilitate the learning and development of young…

The paper presents the results of an exploratory research aimed at investigating various aspects related to the use of immersive virtual reality (IVR) in schools. In a high school computer lab, five students in a first-grade class participated in a lesson on the cardiovascular system while wearing…

This paper shows the early results of a Participatory Action-Research (PAR) in which University, School, and Third Sector of the city of Palermo dialogue with each other to design new educational systems’ architectures. Within the theoretical framework provided by Universal Design for Learning,…

Since the 1970s the Italian school has chosen the path of integration and inclusion of all male and female students, making difference its cornerstone. The education cannot but feed on diversity in order to be truly effective, in terms of building cultures and citizenship practices. In this…

Memes have become one of the most insidious tools for spreading online misinformation. Their power stems from their ability to create strong emotions using images accompanied by ironic or humorous jokes on a particular topic. Very often, they are based on stereotypes or cultural, social, or…

The paper concerns an observational-correlational research aimed at detecting the “profile” of conceptions about assessment of the aspiring secondary school teachers enrolled in PF24 provided by the University of Bologna. The research was initiated in A.Y. 2020/21 and continued in A.Y. 2021/22,…

The structuring of teachers' professional stance is a complex, dynamic, and collective process (Magnoler, 2017), influenced by various factors: initial and in-service training, beliefs within the school community (Lussi Borer et al., 2015), individual self-determination and intentionality, and…

Video production-based learning is widely recognised as a powerful strategy to engage students in meaningful learning in terms of disciplinary outcomes (Sablić et al., 2021), motivation (Carmichael et al., 2018) and collaborative skills (Hung et.al., 2004). The aim of the present study is to…

Several studies have shown that participating in interventions promoting social-emotional skills from early childhood can contribute to improved school outcomes, even in the long term. The present quasi-experimental study compared the effectiveness of two methods of promoting social-emotional skills…

This article presents results from the first phase of an action research process conducted together with a group of secondary school teachers, with the aim of experimenting with actions that reduce educational risk and improve inclusion and participation in schools. The ‘Framework for…

The paper contextualizes the study activities within the Action 4.3 of the fourth objective programmed by the UN 2030 Agenda: By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational, and tertiary education, including university. In this context, the…

The paper presents an exploratory research on the function of educational counseling as support and enhancement of the professional capabilities of educators and teachers of early childhood education 0-6 years, with a view to continuity and the creation of a concrete culture for ages 0-6. The…

The concept of creativity recalls multiple skills and competencies, such as personality and motivational factors, styles, strategies, and metacognitive reflections (Runco, 2013). Educational proposals aimed at developing creativity in preschoolers involve diverse cognitive processes that develop…

National and international research has been able to deepen important differences between stu-dents of small schools located in rural communities and students of metropolitan schools, with par-ticular reference to learning in STEM disciplines. The narrative review proposed in this contribu-tion…

This article analyses the project "REASON - REAct in the Struggle against ONline hate speech", which aims to counter online hate speech from a methodological point of view, drawing attention to the training actions of the Research Center on Intercultural Relations of the Catholic University of the…

In recent years, a deep digital transformation has been taking place within education at all levels; the Covid-19 pandemic has given a strong acceleration to the use of new technologies for teaching and created a new approach to life. The digital evolution of experiential contexts is embedded both…

The early detection of learning difficulties, attributable to a Specific Learning Disorder (SLD), during the pre-school period is of fundamental importance in order to initiate teaching activities aimed at acquiring the prerequisites for school learning. Carrying out screening and subsequent…

The evolving world of work leads universities to orient students toward self-entrepreneurship. The recruitment of a European framework (EntreComp) in an Erasmus+ project aimed to foster entrepreneurial skills in trainees demonstrated the possibility for students to acquire job placement & career…

University education is conceived, on the one hand, as a contribution to the development of subjectivities (Biesta, 2017) and, on the other hand, as a response to the various demands of stakeholders, territories, work sectors and, in general, the market economy (De Feo & Pitzalis, 2017). This…

The emergency caused by the SARS-coV-2 virus has generated radical transformations in people's lives. This article analyzes one of the most widespread changes that the pandemic has introduced into work settings: the adoption of diversified forms of smart working. Starting from the observation that…

During the training workshops Assessment of learning organized by the scientific high school “E. Fermi” in Aversa (CE) for newly hired teachers and with transfer of role (a.s. 2022/2023), the paradigm shift was illustrated which, in recent decades, is transforming assessment in the classrooms,…

This paper aims to explore the pedagogical aspects, still little explored, of the competence of the social educator in non-formal contexts of educational community for young people. These entities draw the development of a laboratory methodology from the perspective of the pedagogical design,…

The university is undoubtedly a privileged place for participation, confrontation, and continuous educational investment. A place where students are actively encouraged to reason and solve problems by autonomously obtaining and drawing on all the necessary information sources. The study describes…

More and more teachers are planning and implementing the integration of tablets into teaching. However, the effectiveness of such initiatives does not depend on the simple adoption of the devices, but on the ways teachers use them in the classroom. Therefore, it is pivotal to look at successful…

In the age of datafication, our lives are increasingly created and managed online. This path seems irreversible and greater attention to the use and structures of the mass media, especially new media, seems equally essential. In this scenario, in which the main social media and their functions have…

Teacher reflective competence is a central theme in the debate of national and international pedagogical research. With a view to university teaching innovation, recent studies see the potential of the Narrative Inquiry (NI) methodological approach as good practice and an effective tool for…

This contribution presents the results of a training course carried out at the University of Palermo on the topic of fake news. The study involved 191 students enrolled in the Primary Education Degree Program, aiming to assess their understanding and familiarity with this phenomenon. Before…

The relevant increase in the number of female and male students with DSA enrolled in recent years has placed new demands on university teaching. The latter, is in fact, requested to increase its capacity to include, placing the person's potential at the centre of its pedagogical-didactic planning,…

The paper aims to present the experienced life values with a specific focus on the religiosity of some young Italian secondary school students who spent a year studying abroad. These data, which are drawn from a broader study entitled "Experienced life values after the study abroad experience.…

Abstract: The work sheds light on the inclusive potential of Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) as a facilitative tool not for the exclusive use of pupils with Special Educational Needs, but for the benefit of the whole class group (Fontani, 2016; 2020a; 2020b; Cook & Odom, 2013). AAC…

Abstract: Culture, education, a correct language are elements to be able to guarantee a system of equal opportunities and inclusion of all. Men and women, Italian and non-Italian, high-functioning students and people with disabilities, all belonging to a world that must be increasingly welcoming and…

Il “serious game” (SG), concetto apparentemente ossimorico, rimanda ad un’attività seria in un contesto di gioco, senza finalità di intrattenimento. Si tratta, quindi, di un gioco “in cui l’educazione (nelle sue varie forme) è l’obiettivo principale piuttosto che…

The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) methodology was born in the 1990s within the LEGO® Group to (re)-innovate managerial practices and has over time undergone significant development in various sectors including education, supported by constructivist learning theories. It affirms itself among the…

The serious game (SG) underlies the concept of edutainment, a type of game that aims to educate by entertaining. The effectiveness of such a tool is especially revealed when applied to the museum environment as promoting innovative forms of entertainment helps to attract new categories of users,…

The spread of technologies, of the growing human-machine interaction, of the culture of simulation and, in particular, of video games has led to the definition of a new anthropological model, the Homo Game, in which the playful dimension, increasingly linked to the technological one, has become…

The intercultural education of teachers and the design of training courses from an inclusive perspective is an important issue in order to foster experiences of encountering difference and affirming the ethical principles of otherness and democratic dialogue within schools. In this context, it is…

This is water is the commencement speech with which David Foster Wallace greeted undergraduates at Kenyon College in Gambier in 2005. It is an insightful speech. It shows on a literary level the dynamic through which biopolitical dispositifs exert their pervasive and ubiquitous power over human…

Learning can be fostered by technologies through devices aimed at embedded exploration of physical and digital spaces, which provide for the immersion and involvement of users in transformative experiences also based on play. The paper reflects on the relations between learning and game and the…

The issue of employment for people with disabilities, and in particular for young adults taking their first steps in the world through PCTO, has emerged within special education as fundamental to a broader conceptualisation that includes aspects of adulthood, self-construction, self-determination…

The basis of a sustainable training path is the analysis of certain factors and the passing of certain stages that enable it to be predictive. The effectiveness of training design, in fact, depends, in large part, on a subject's ability to invest in one’s talent, to consider the resources…

Serious Games are proving their suitability in business training and inclusion processes aimed at promoting and respecting all diversities. In fact, the main objective of this contribution is to investigate how serious games can facilitate the updating of employees, the individual and collective…

Play and work are realities that, within a society strongly striving for productivity, are often placed on two distinct planes, in opposition to each other: acknowledging the centrality of play as a space for adult character formation (Bondioli, 1996), play nevertheless seems to be a "waste of time"…

Food, in its various forms and representations, plays a fundamental role in the culture of every population in the world, given its importance to the health of each individual. Healthy nutritional practice and correct eating behaviors are useful to achieve optimal growth and development of the…