What happens to university students during the COVID 19 emergency, when the University is betrayed (in the literal sense of the term, i.e. transported in a new dimension), and students leave the lessons in presence, to suddenly move to on line platforms? This is what we wanted to investigate in a…
Potential actions aimed at the creation and development of an Italian “New School”, capable of leaving no one behind, could be traced in many contexts: infrastructures, ministerial programs, laws, regulations and much more. This essay intends to establish a specific scope of action, determining…
In its educational, education and training values, schools are complex places on several levels: organisational, managerial and didactic. As a democratic device for the development of every citizen, the school is a milieu for promoting skills to inhabit the complexity of the processes under way and…
The robots are becoming more and more common in everyday life. In the last years their use has also increasingly spread to the field of didactics, starting with their use as tools in STEM education. With the advancement of social robotics, the use of robots in didactics has been extended also to…
This contribution, examining the Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR), an emerging form of Assistive Technology that incorporates all robotic systems capable of providing assistance through social interaction (Feil-Seifer & Mataric, 2005), aims to initiate an organic reflection on the potential…
Starting from the Lippmann-Dewey debate, this paper relates its themes to nowadays’ society, understood as featured by complexity, difficult access to scientific information, and poor political involvement. Such context prompts the authors to adopt Barber’s futurology, which envisages three…
In the innovative climate of continuous experimentation in which we are involved, development should be regulated not only by technical-scientific disciplines but also by humanistic ones such as education, psychology, anthropology and philosophy in order to train scientists to program machines that…
The paper analyzes the role that artificial intelligence can assume in the definition of more stimulating and inclusive teaching-learning environments, with particular reference to the possibility of supporting teaching action through augmented reality experiences. Augmented reality allows you to…
The paper analyzes the role that artificial intelligence is taking on in teaching processes, with particular reference to the possibility of monitoring students’ attention, during lessons or during an exam, using facial recognition software and movement analysis eyepieces. If on the one hand these…
In the realization that we cannot ignore that we live in what is called the infosphere, an environment in which the boundaries between the online life and the offline life in the reality of relationships, gradually disappear, this work wants to reflect on how this new environment makes it necessary…
The present article aims at providing an overview of the studies and research that, in the last years, have applied the principles of Affective Computing (Picard, 1995) to education, particularly in the supporting and developing of social and emotional competences in subjects with special…
Through an interdisciplinary interpretation reflecting the complexity of the topic, the authors intend to provide guidelines and perspectives on pedagogical research in order to analyse AI in relation to learning and lifelong training. Is artificial intelligence really a resource worthy of…
Pattern of thinking have impacted the gender difference for a long time with the distribution of roles and different task depending on the gender. The attention for the physic nature, for the character and for the attitude of the men and women has product generalization, where models and stereotypes…
In western society, especially in the last decade, there has been an significant increase in the number of children in educational poverty. This situation is the consequence of multiple social factors that amplify the weaker subjects’ deprivation about their opportunities of learning and becoming…
This contribution reflects upon the issue of “educational poverty” linked to the current health situation. The emergency aroused by the spreading of Covid-19 has had multiple negative effects which, whilst affecting social and economic policies worldwide, have also experienced significant…
The digital skills are fundamental to make adequate use of the digital services of the public administration and to access to the world of work. In learning contexts, it is therefore important to increase the use of digital technologies in order to improve learning processes and to develop new…
This paper, through a study of the scientific literature, aims to understand the link between the phenomenon of educational poverty, young NEETs (Not engaged in Education, Employment or Training), and the use of new technologies in order to obtain effective training. This study deals with the…
The partnership between school and local actors is a very important organizational level factor for providing quality education, and because of the changes resulting from integrated teaching in the emergency and post-Covid19 restart phase it is even more so. The contribution focuses on the Italian…
Territorial inequality, and the consequent economic impoverishment, mean that instead of the urban dimension “typical” of the collective imagination a whole series of “minor” realities emerge, located in mountains, islands, internal and remote areas or in the suburbs of the country. In these…
The theme of educational poverty is becoming increasingly central to the national and international scientific and pedagogical debate, but also to the public and political one. The concept is multidimensional and presents the characteristics of scale necessary to frame the complexity of social and…
The paper examines the main causes of educational poverty (economic crisis, inadequate redistribution of wealth, quality of education and training, personal choices); the social effects that can derive from the emulation of models in which the logic of “everything and now” prevails and the role…
Technology, now for more than a decade, has entered the world of teaching in a predominant way, causing unconditional enthusiasm thanks to the myriad of possibilities offered by the countless applications and, at the same time, fears and harsh criticisms, especially for the consequences related to…
Nearing the end of the Europe 2020 Strategy (EC, 2010) the essay aims to explore, through a meta-analysis and critical reflection, equity as one of the forms of prevention adopted by the Finnish school system, among the best in the world in terms of outcomes, participation and teachers training…
This contribution aims to illustrate the contents of a learning module titled “The Italian language in the changing school”, as part of a PON project in a primary school, which involved disciplines such as Italian and Geography and which had as its main objective the reduction of scholastic…
Educational courses must be inclusive, so as to allow anyone, regardless of personal skills and needs, to complete them profitably. To achieve true inclusion it is necessary that both technological tools and teaching contents are accessible, that is, usable by everyone. But that's not enough:…
Maker Education is a cultural movement that is spreading in the educational field and that can offer significant opportunities to students in conditions of social, economic and cultural disadvantage. However, embracing the maker education movement and spreading this approach in schools and centres…
“Even people with developmental, learning and adaptation difficulties must be considered protagonists of their own growth” (MPI, 1975). This statement by the Falcucci Commission is a cornerstone of the path that has led Italy towards inclusion. In fact, although there are still pull and push out…
The paper intends to highlight the issues concerning educational poverty at the time of Covid-19 and how the inequalities that are encountered in the school environment in contexts of educational normality have become acute and / or have acquired new forms in the phases I and II. The changes in the…
The contribution aims to reflect on the recent and complex phenomenon of the implicit early school leaving in the Italian school context. This problem represents an indicator of educational inequality and lack of fairness (Benvenuto, 2016) which is rooted in the poor quality of the school system in…
Among the factors contributing to educational poverty are not only the lack of adequate educational infrastructures at a local level, but also the lack of cultural, sports and leisure educational services, and poor access to digital platforms. From data available in the literature, this article will…
The scholastic spread and dispersion is a complex phenomenon that is extended to the entire education system. The international community has for a long time invested in addressing the human right that every child has at an education, which is, therefore, an inalienable right that is due to every…
Health emergency and the following crisis for the pandemic, still alive, give evidence how much our social- economic systems create many inequalities. We can suggest, for example , not all the Countries is not able to put into action the hygienic rules to prevent the virus diffusion or in our …
The papers examines the elements of novelty that characterize current educational relationships, which in the era of the social emergency covid-19, become web-mediated. Teachers and students have been forced to radically change their way of communicating and interacting, without having, among other…
Distance learning is a much-discussed topic; however, it has found more space in the debates than in the practical reality due to a mentality not inclined to change. Due to the crisis of the last few months, the topic has become decidedly more current since distance teaching has proved to be the…
Distance learning has "rained" on us. The first sensations are not positive, after all, simulating at a distance what is normally done in presence cannot be the solution. We are witnessing a revolution in the Teaching-Learning relationship, everyone will have to "redefine" the personal consolidated…
This work, based on an interdisciplinary literature, reflects on the metamorphosis of technologies in society and on the responses that the person give in different dimensions: social, professional and educational. After the latest events, the digitization process is no longer a choice, but becomes…
The educational experience its emotional implications the debate on educational and social professions, that in latest years has involved the academic world and the professional associations, led to an intense exchange of experiences and, more recently, made possibile to draw up a legislative…
The sanitary emergency due to Covid-19 has and will have a strong impact on all our systems (education, training and, obviously, guidance). With the massive and invasive dissemination of distance teaching, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of digital resources and related…
The paper examines the impact of web-mediated communication on teaching, with particular reference to the dematerialization of the learning environment. The educational environment is analyzed from the psycho-pedagogical point of view in its meaning of “place of training”, part of the didactic…
This contribution aims to highlight what kind of pedagogy the DaD is capable of conveying. Drawing lessons from the moment of crisis that the country is going through, we will focus on the policies and educational actions to be organized along theoretical lines in an interdisciplinary…
The study of the relationships between culture and technology, especially in light of media studies and mediology, shows that distinctions typical of common sense, which are not always rigorous from an epistemological point of view, continue to be used in the pedagogical field. The concrete forms of…
The word “Metacooperative Learning” refers to the methodology of Cooperative Learning together with the priciples of metacognitive didactics.. The author of the present contribution developed this approach in an exploratory survey regarding pre-school children in the years 2016 and 2017. The…
Le mappe concettuali vengono impiegate in maniera sempre più stabile e sistematica in tutti i settori in cui è importante e necessario gestire e rappresentare la conoscenza, di conseguenza anche in ambito didattico-formativo. La conoscenza rappresentata con le/nelle mappe concettuali è…
The first part of the essay analyses the importance of the audiovisual document for contemporary history and the educational and emotional function of documentary and fiction films in the teaching of 20th century history. The second part proposes a formative path with the use of the audiovisual…
Italian public opinion has become familiar with guaranteed minimum. Concerning this measure, the discussion has gained momentum once again during the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic with the proposal on the so-called quarantine income. The debate concerns the very idea of society, and therefore…
The Digital Transformation has brought obstacles and opportunities within Public Administrations, which have absorbed in different ways - sometimes ambiguously - the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies. In a people centered orientation, ICT spreads a new culture, exquisitely…
A Japanese Ministerial Commission provided the guidelines for a global reform of the Educational System, to prepare students for the challenges of society 5.0; the heart of the technical-scientific training is the human factor: professional development of teachers and enhancement of the arts (MEXT,…
The essay observing the state of the art in the employment field has the objective of activating a process of reflection on the implications of socio-economic changes related to technological developments and on what it is considered necessary to know and know to be trained as individuals within the…
The gamble on the realisation of a 5.0 society will be played -in the first place- on the ground of the revaluation of postmodernity to reflect on a not entirely smoothed contradiction: on one side the unprecedented technological development and on the other side its aberration form an ethical…
Pedagogical sustainability has become a challenge that has involved not only the institutions of the various governments of the European states and the whole civilized world but also all the aware citizens who are able to offer an effective and concrete contribution through direct personal and…
The Web, in its various forms and declensions, has promoted the birth of the Infosphere, an ecosystem dominated by a continuous flow of information in which both social institutions and individuals incorporate the "logic" of the media. People's lives themselves are becoming Onlife, a junction that…
Society 5.0 theorists argue that - through the sustainable use of technology - it is possible to build a society focused on people and their needs. Other lines of research - such as the "acceleratorist" one - call for a more intensive use of technology to free the productive forces. No social…
Education for sustainability becomes a cultural challenge and an educational priority in relation to the goals of peace, justice and inclusion. The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations and in particolar Goal 4 (Quality Instruction) call Education to drive the change of society and culture in order to…
In the present article we outline the role played by cultural beliefs concerning healthcare in multicultural settings: in doing this, we stress the need of an "olistic care", namely the doctor has the duty to establish a dialogue with the patient, being able to understand his specific culturally…
This paper examines the problem of addictions from an educational point of view connecting it to the topic of resilience relative to subjects who present forms of addictions and their families, the community, institutions and the territory. The interdisciplinary reading of the topic allow us to…
The paper aims to contribute to the theme of “hate speeches” with a methodological proposal focused on the employability of methods that become – according this approach – promoters of social change. The idea is that through storytelling and biographical interview we can produce…
In the present article we consider illness as a metaphor: mental disorders, in particular are always polifaceted, when it comes to their origin. We need to understand all the key factors that are involved in the outcome of mental disorders. Each mental disorder is indeea a "simbol" of something, not…
Objective of the essay is the analysis of ethics communication of a cilentana company through digital communication tools. The principles upon which of Poseidonia Beach Club is based - environment, eco-sustainability and solidarity - have been underlined by Facebook and Instagram communication.…
The initial definition of thruth (i.e.: the equivalence between being and soul, or thought) has been criticized during the philosophical late Modernity. Both “being” and “thought”, in fact, were considered inconsistent. The picture changed with the so called linguistic turn: in this…
The paper aims to develop a reflection on new forms of cyberviolence against women and girls (Cyber-VAWG). Indeed, often the Internet, mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) and above all social media are used as tools to inflict damage on women and girls. This is a global…
Mobbing concerns a work situation in which the worker is the victim of persecutory actions by one or more attackers who may find themselves in positions of superiority, inferiority or equality. The actions are very heterogeneous and range from simple marginalization to the assignment of…
In a globalized world characterized by great migrations (Castle, 1993), by evident and unresolved social, political, economic and environmental issues that have generated a great uncertainty in the labor market, the vocational guidance practices of Third country national citizens in Europe,…
In the current geo-political scenario, at national and international level, germs of violence, conflict and prevarication creep into the micro and macro cosmos of relationships. In this general climate of fear and mistrust, it is urgent to return to talking about hospitality and hospitality so that…
In the light of the situation of the Italians in the field of reading in the European scenario and of the national guidelines for the curriculum, the importance of the “reading aloud" is reflected and indications are given as to the most appropriate places and times to practice shared reading in…
The complexity of the times we live leads us to develop autonomy, potential, skills and competences to continually build our identity, knowledge and relationships, to reach the highest level of meta-competence; therefore the deep knowledge of the processes of introspection and relative reaction. In…
This article analyses the interactions between labour-market dynamics, education and lifelong-learning policies, by examining the principal changes in the economic system and in the strategic role of education in today’s knowledge society, in relation to critical global-scenario issues, like the…
Reading stories to preschool children in the family and offering them quality books lays a solid foundation for reading promotion. For this reason, the article aims to highlight how the family can and should be the privileged place to learn and to refine the level of emotional literacy and the…
Leaders who choose the style of transformational leadership act on group members by changing their values, needs and beliefs through consensus and participation in achieving goals. In managing occupational health and safety, transformational leaders can be of fundamental importance as they can:…
School evaluation aims at monitoring or improving the quality of the school as a whole. In order to guarantee the quality of the Education and Training system it is not enough to define and control the starting standards, but it is crucial to explain and verify the arrival standards. In such a…
The contribute offer a reflection about education’s meaning and invite us to recover the value of instruction and formation for the purpose of human realization. Only through education the individual can to rehabilitate the thought’s liberty, idea’s strength, his creative capacity and express…
In this article, mainly referring to two authors (F.Covey and A. Grün), "I reflect aloud" on what can be the references for a Leader who does not drive, and therefore is not guided, only by following the business logic or even more simply the company logic. A leader who, although responsibly…
The culture of risk is the product of social organization, and therefore of the underlying relation-ships. Fatalism, individualism, marginalization are just some of the attitudes that individuals have towards risk. Ulrich Beck (2013) deals with the issue of risk communities, that is, groups of…
The relationship between the individual and the organization in the productive sphere express a very high level of complexity, in many respects superior to that relating to the multidimensional relationship between the individual and society. In fact, the impact that the work organization, with its…
For just over five years, even in our country, under the pressure of supranational public debate, there has been much talk about “social innovation”, without it being always clear what is meant by this definition. Therefore, the objective of this brief reflection is to circumscribe the meaning…
We consider three perspectives in determing the number of persons involved in the so called "Hensel twins", a case of adult conjoined twins: 1. the materialistic perspective establishes the equivalence between the number of brains and the number of persons involved. A body having two brains is…
The dual system work-based learning (WBL) allows the students to realize part of their formative curriculum in working contexts, turning the model of tied up learning to a single disciplines into a different model that recognizes the value of the informal and not formal learnings in terms of…
The problem of evaluation is an old problem, because every time we take initiatives to achieve a training objective, we also feel the need to check if the objectives are achievable. Evaluation processes today use new technologies that are able to meet this need, but it is also necessary to give the…
The main object philosophy deals with from its beginning is being. Human being, because of his peculiar connection with being, is characterized by an endless deside that cannot properly be fullfilled. Consciousness is indeed twofold, being composed by 1) its formal comprehension of being…
Today, training is considered one of the fundamental interventions to improve the perception of occupational risk and to help develop and sediment culture on occupational safety. With regard to occupational safety, a timely analysis of the training needs must take note of the risk assessment carried…
The today’s challenge by the organizations of the public health service is perhaps basically constituted by the need to develop an individual and collective more professional empreneurship capable of urge internal and external resources through a specific and well-defined strategic orientation,…
Thanks to the tumultuous digital technologies development, nowadays we live in a world without boundaries, characterized by liquid communities that meet and collide, sometimes denying mutual recognition. We move in a communicative bulimia where information runs like in a circus where the sense and…
Questo periodo storico si presenta come uno dei più duri. I prodotti più evidenti della crisi sono chiaramente le condizioni d’instabilità, incertezza e precarietà economica, che incidono profondamente anche sullo stato sociale, educativo e culturale. Il futuro prossimo non sembra capace di…
It has been 13 years since the European Year of Citizenship Through Education. The need of the role of the education relating to European Union’s issues is now clearer and clearer. Indeed, even though the Treaties define every inhabitant of the Member States as “citizen” and give him or her…
Rethinking the role of educator in formal and non-formal educational context: this is the objective of the article. In the reflection we remember the Law 205 (c. 594-601) that regulates the profession. To recognize the value of the educator, we recall the studies of John Dewey, Maria Montessori,…
From some years burnout seems to have an increasing escalation among teachers, with serious consequences both for the person that lives the uneasiness and for the organization school and for the students. Burnout is not therefore a problem of the single teacher, on which to act individually; it asks…
The aim of the following work is to analyze an effective method for managing the growing issues at the infant and adolescent level. The "Making Stories" method will be described, implemented by the Institute of Group Research and Generational Psychology (IRG) of Lugano, founded by Marcoli Ferruccio.
In the present article, we will be focusing on the possible scenarios that could raise from the analysis of the anencephalic newborn as organ donor. These scenarios are as follows: 1) organ donation is banned; 2) organ donation is possibile according to the brain death criterion; 3) in order to…
L’orientamento tradizionale non rappresenta più lo strumento idoneo a gestire la transizione “sempre più critica” tra scuola, formazione e lavoro, ma deve essere integrato da una nuova impostazione capace di creare valore permanente nella vita di ogni giovane studente, garantendone lo…
La dispersione scolastica e lo skills mismatch tra competenze richieste e disponibili, nonostante la diminuzione degli ultimi anni, costituiscono ancora un grave problema per il nostro Paese, con ricadute sui percorsi personali e sul sistema socio-economico. Partendo da un recente articolo, che…
Educational agencies are going through a difficult transition period that is having important consequences in terms of de-legitimation of the social mandate historically assigned to school. The reason of this widespread uneasiness is due to the fact that today we are living in a complex system where…
Italian Universities, under some social, cultural and economic pressures, have been called to change the institutional action adding to the two traditional missions, on the one hand the Didactics for a qualified training and on the other the Research, a new objective (called "Third Mission") aimed…
Every organization shall check an activity list in order to make profit; each activity is itself depending on a series of bonds (technology, assets, human resources, infrastructures...). In-business Learning is an essential bond: without it business process could even decade till complete breakout.…
What means ‘key competences’ and why developing them is so important in today's society? This paper focuses on three aspects of 21st century school: the importance of competences in information society, the definition in international frameworks for key competences and new approaches in teaching…
After a quick analysis of the normative evolution of the skill's concept, the essay focuses on the introduction of compulsory certification of skills; then it analyses the development, first doctrinal and then legislative, of the authentic performance concept or real life tasks; furthermore, it…
The success factors of any policy on Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) depend on the effectiveness and efficiency of the communication channels and tools used to achieve all the stakeholders. Today even in OSH sector the new communication channels such as Internet, online applications and social…
The paper come out from a series of thoughts tending to go along the path of some of the principal problems of the relationship with the Other (in particular, ”the Stranger-Other”), the kind of relationship that today, in a territory of globalized societies and actually always more multiethnic…
Deciding to work illegally today, regardless of whether it's the only choice or a personal choice, it means condemn oneself and become trapped in an enclosed scheme, which hinders progress and personal development. But the black economy has a strong impact on the lives of others: the community and…
The Italian educational system since the seventies became a women's world, both for the massive presence of girls in all levels of schooling, both for a teaching staff composed mainly of women, so that in some scope men have become one real “rarity”. The feminine school and university education…
70 years ago, on the 2nd of June 1946, the Italian Republic raised with an institutional referendum. Moreover, a constituent assembly was elected to write the Constitution of a new democratic and social State, not more mono-gender and mono-class. The Constitution was approved on the December 1947…