The common ground into which historical knowledge, techniques for creating digital environments and the tools of contemporary museology converge is called, by experts, Virtual cultural heritage, a recent field of research that aims at the virtual reconstruction of cultural heritage, useful for…

The new digital technologies are now an integral part of the communication and training practices of young people, who are conceived as naturally predisposed to the use of ICT. However, the rhetoric of the screen or net generation (Rivoltella, 2006) risks masking the diversity of ICT use experiences…

In Italy the training of the support teachers takes place in universitary specialization courses, in which the ICT are an important topic, and in the Covid-19 pandemic era the lectures were conducted remotely. Within the ICT remote class dedicated to the secondary teachers at the University of…

This contribution is dealing with the issue of online teaching in the Degree Course in Primary Education Sciences (SFP) at the University of Bari. An exploratory approach was adopted for the research, centered on students’ perceptions and opinions with reference to the latest ways of conducting…

This study aims to investigate the relation between students’ perception of their parental involvement in education and their motivation and well-being at school. For the survey, a parental involvement questionnaire (Clinton & Hattie, 2013) was adapted, administered to a sample of 361 middle…

The pandemic has had a strong impact on the psyche, emotions, sociability, behavior and lifestyles of adolescents and its prolongation is defined as a "secondary pandemic" because it is a less tangible, visible and quantifiable consequence than the primary one that every day invades official…

The health emergency caused by Covid-19 has highlighted the importance for students of having a quiet place to study and a technological equipment suitable for distance learning, in their homes. Until two years ago, the in-person classroom learning could compensate for the lack of these aspects,…

The health emergency caused by the spread of COVID-19 during 2020-21 forced schools of all levels to provide online education. The complexity of the situation that has emerged and the problems that have immediately spread has stimulated debate on various aspects of the issue, in particular on the…

The Hospital School (HSO) is configured as a non-standard learning environment in which all the indicators of the school system changes: space, time, bodies and relationships. The research saw a first phase consisting of an exploratory survey conducted with a mixed method approach to investigate:…

The birth of a child with a disability marks an irreversible existential turning point for the family. We have chosen to carry out a narrative investigation by examining the so-called "sliding doors effect" in family caregivers, in search of possible worlds, aspirations, stories, bonds, impulses…

In today’s world, the technological devices are becoming more and more protagonists in education field. They are predominant not only at school and university level, but they also have considerable educational potentiality in teacher training courses. This paper aims at focusing on the skills of…

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, blended teaching has been the norm in the past two years. This has brought about online workshops characterized by collaborative learning, action-reflection and on line interaction. Through an exploratory data research performed via an on-line questionnaire, this…

The paper presents an in-depth focus on the SIRD national survey on distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic for the Tuscany Region regarding the dimension of collaboration as a strategic asset to co-construct effective educational and teaching practices in all school orders. The…

The paper examines the structural model of a new type of lesson used to verify the preparation of the student before the final examination of any academic study course. This innovative teaching tool, which can be easily applied also in the study paths of all other non-academic levels, including…

One of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda is to promote lasting, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in which digital technology is an essential driver to ensure the active participation of the entire population and to support structural and organisational change. With the digital…

The Information and Communication Technologies, in today's school, represent useful tools to mediate and support students in a systemic-relational learning process and in activities of shared and participatory construction of new knowledge (Van Leeuwen & Janssen 2019; Torri, 2020). However, when…

For several years teachers’ training has been the object of analysis and reflections by different scholars who question (us and) themselves on the meaning of doing school in our contemporary world (Bocci, 2018; Sibilio & Aiello, 2018; Baldacci, Nigris & Riva, 2020). In the area of…

The growing immigration wave of populations fleeing wars, famines and poverty highlights the need to create tools for welcoming children to schools in countries unknown to them. Language can represent a great barrier to inclusion and integration, causing children to suffer especially for the lack of…

Italian state schools abroad are facing a new challenge: to take the concept of inclusion of students with special education needs out of the national territory to better promote the spread of Italian culture and a solid culture of inclusion and acceptance. This study, through the special…

In this contribution we wish to present the case of a two-year training course, conducted within a Comprehensive Institute, aimed at co-design the Civic Education curriculum. The starting need was to give both an epistemological and didactic structure, and a design framework to the Citizenship…

Orienting secondary school students to an informed choice of university path is one of the university's missions. The orientation actions involve different levels of detail: from informative/dissemination to more active activities. This contribution presents an effort to orient high school students…

The pandemic period has generated an invisible “flood” of dropouts. Invalsi data for 2021 show that the number of students who have not yet reached the minimum level of basic skills has increased. This hidden form of early school leaving looks set to grow and create huge gaps across the country,…

The fragility of human existence, highlighted by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, involved different areas of life on an individual and social level. Significance of the other/s has placed the whole world faced with the new ways of future planning, including education. From a pedagogical point of…

In addition to recognizing qualities based on knowledge, skills, competences related to strictly professional aspects and personality characteristics, over the years, attention has been paid to the emotional dimension of the teacher, as competence in self-management and self-regulation of their…

The paper presents a case study on competences assessment and the introduction of “good practices”. The research was carried out in a secondary school that adopted the DADA model (Didactics for Learning Environments) and implemented it with a digital experimentation. The case study, through…

The current situation presents us with the need for a re-orientation of education towards a sustainable development, conscious and not rhetorical. In this paper, we will analyse some models and practices of environmental education that aim to go beyond sporadic experiences in green areas to create a…

The lesson of Don Lorenzo Milani and the school of Barbiana is visionary in light of the bill approved by the Chamber of Deputies (2372/22) regarding the enhancement of non-cognitive skills in schooling. Not always appreciated in his way of doing, Don Lorenzo Milani, in 1956, launched a…

The article aims to investigate the undermined scenario in which children, during this intrapan-demic period, had to rely on their own strength, supporting themselves in the processes of acquir-ing cognitive and transversal skills, within a new, private and mutilated social dimension. Through the…

This reflection on the importance of non-cognitive skills introduces good practices within educational paths using as a guiding case an experience lived within two classes of High School Virgilio in Milan. The technique used to carry out the activity is an adaptation of the Lego Serious Play (LSP)…

The concept of resilience describes the ability to resist and cope with the destructive challenges that life sometimes imposes, a process that involves dynamic aspects that support, encourage and promote the ability to struggle, overcome obstacles, alongside biological determinants, caregivers…

The recent debate regarding the new IEP model based on ICF and on Tar sentence n. 975/21 has opened new perspectives for the research highlighting the need to rediscuss and modular again the documentation and inclusive processes regarding the scholastic environment. The purpose of the present essay…

In a formal school inclusion project, the curriculum made up of the quality of human relationships, of suitable environments, of particular methodological choices, of contents, of strategies for the development of inclusive skills (Perla, 2013), is a fundamental assumption for activation of this…

This contribution examines the section dedicated to the family, present in the Individualized Educative Plan Document (PEI) introduced by the Ministerial law n.182 of November 29th, 2020.The importance of this opportunity offered to the family by PEI lies in the support and guidance that it provides…

Anthropologist Robert Murphy in "The Body Silent" depicts how "becoming disabled" manifests itself as a progressive loss of accessibility and estrangement from the world. The experience of disability, analyzed from the inside, highlights the contrasts between the subjectivity of awareness of…

This work presents the results of an experimental research in a single group, which involved 1350 students and 120 laboratory teachers attending the 5th cycle of the specialization course for didactic support activities for kindergartens, primary, first and secondary schools. And high school of the…

This paper presents the results of a survey conducted with a sample of teachers attending the specialization course for special education teachers of the University of Florence, with teaching experience with pupils with autism, who participated in the administration of a questionnaire developed by…

As an educational and transformative context, the school has the responsibility to prepare each student for adult social life. This requires action on teacher training to develop an inclusive culture together with effective school policies and practices, promoting a school culture that values…

In view of the Interministerial Decree 182/2020, school planning requires a bio-psychosocial vision of learning and participation, within a full inclusion perspective. Whit this in mind, a quasi-experimental research project is presented. The project is aimed to indicate effective methods of…

The article proposes a study based on a narrative approach that uses Life Stories as a data collection tool to provide teachers with the opportunity to connect events, contexts, emotions and choices related to students with disabilities, thus building a collective memory. This is based on the…

The piece aims to reflect on the connections between the Individualized Educational Plan and the dimensions of university and professional orientation. The University of Perugia has activated a service of pedagogical-didactic advice, designed to offer support in the acquisition and/ or refinement of…

In order to guide the teachers in the dialogue with the bio-psycho-social perspective in articulated training planning for the benefit of the pupil with disabilities, the working group of the Center on New Technologies for Disability and Inclusion (CNTHI) of the University of Salento, in June 2020,…

This paper intends to reflect on the relationship between disability, life project, adulthood and educational orientation in schools. On the basis of a qualitative analysis of the interviews with privileged witnesses, it highlights the critical aspects and the potentialities of educational project.…

The training of competent professionals, who in their role as general or specialized teachers, support pupils in the development of their affective-relational, cognitive and communication skills, as well as in the acquisition of autonomy, is an essential factor for the design and the management of…

This paper aims to analyze the educational practices undertaken by a socio-educational community of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), which is the most representative case of secondary homeschooling. The educational services hereby described are aimed at adolescents exposed to the risk of early leaving…

The contribution presents a study on the bio-psycho-social perspective of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in the Italian school context. In fact, if the ICF instrument has been present in our country for almost twenty years, the complexity of its paradigm…

Health emergency Covi-19 has totally modified people’s everyday life, changing their habits, relationships and lifestyle to which children are not unrelated. Childhood cannot be considered a “shadow cone” unware about the stressful and unconscious reality’s events of the society surrounding…

The article presents the "Classi in rete" teaching model, which was tested in Québec and is based on the pedagogical concept of class as Knowledge Building community. The model was brought to Italy for the first time in the context of Abruzzo small schools. Following a design-based research…

Prolegomena: the pleasure principle in making art at school. The pedagogical debate that is taking place about this current topic, crucial but often overlooked, collects a multitude of stimuli. These stimuli have matured in the most disparate disciplinary fields of knowledge (neuroscience,…

This paper focuses on an initiative to communicate permanent censuses and foster statistical culture, promoted by Istat thanks to the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, called The Permanent Census on school desks. Launched in 2019 with the aim of developing in young people an in-depth…

There are many pedagogical research experiences that in recent years have focused on the educational value of Service Learning (SL), opening, heuristic glances to significant experiences in academia. A new line of research on the subject, looks at the intentional design of SL activities mediated by…

How society is changing respect to the introduction of recent technologies and how the school can manage this change are questions that this collective survey giving voice to the educating society from kindergarten to ministerial leadership. The Grounded Theory path, in this case using Lego Serious…

Educational gamification, which consists in using game elements to influence learning-related behaviours and attitudes, with the ultimate aim of fostering the formation of positive learning habits, has become increasingly applied in recent years. There are many game elements and mechanics to be used…

Pedagogical research on guidance over the last twenty years has finally shown that, in most contexts, the use of training guidance models has supplanted informative and/or psycho-attitudinal models. Among the formative models, the narrative orientation (Batini, Zaccaria, 2000) and, subsequently,…

This paper aims to compare the perceptions of the work objectives achievement among Italian teachers based on the didactic method and professional role (owner / substitute) in the period between February and April 2021. The pandemic imposed school lockdown around the world. In Italy, teaching…

The School and University were pushed into the era of distance teaching and learning (Dad) to ensure training for students even in the lockdown period due to the Covid-19. This experience forced teachers to a reconversion of traditional teaching into online environments not always known. This…

With the spread of online channels, the way in which the information is produced and used have changed. This also applies to the debate that accompanies school issues and, in particular, to standardized assessment. INVALSI with its annual surveys on learning achievement offers at the media a wide…

This contribution aims at reflecting on a revision of the idea of evaluation in compulsory schooling, starting from the perspective of Assessment as Learning, according to which the evaluation is itself a didactic action, a constant and progressive learning tool. It is described a part of the…

Through the self-evaluation process, the student makes a judgment on his or her learning, analyzing the differences between the expected objectives and the results obtained. However, it is the teacher who must educate the student in self-assessment through self-analysis tools, such as cognitive…

In online courses, the tutoring activities are relevant for the learners’ training; they affect the course quality and imply creating dynamic and active online learning environments. The research aims to define a model based on a structured and data-driven tutoring system to identify homogeneous…

The paper presents an innovative development model for the creation of training courses delivered on digital support and structured in minimal modular, traceable and reusable learning units. The idea of granularity of educational content forms the basis of all the phases foreseen for the realization…

The main objective of the proposal is to explore limits and potentialities of the evaluative field research at the time of Covid-19, taking as example the evaluation of the project "La Gazzetta Olimpica, journal of the school and the neighborhood". The project was born with the aim of supporting the…

In this paper, after analyzing through the international literature the curricular, didactic, and organizational forms that can be adopted in a multi-class, we propose an insight based on interpretative approaches of the situations observed in the classes adhering to the Movimento Nazionale delle…

The present study aims to examine the relationships between affective dimensions (psychological distress and levels of experienced anxiety and anger), relational dimensions (interaction with the university context) and the risk of drop-out in a sample of 128 university students (88.8% women, average…

For a long time, the school has included the linguistic impoverishment of students among its negative aspects. And this reality is closely linked to the difficulty of reasoning, of arguing and - more generally - to the difficulty in developing independent critical thinking. To overcome this problem…

In recent years, concern about the reckless exploitation of natural resources and the violation of environmental resources has been increasingly growing, fuelling global political and economic debate. It is evident that the current scenario is the result of centuries of ill-considered human…

In Europe, the reference for the digital competence profile of teachers is the framework of the DigCompEdu (Digital Competence Framework for Educators). The goal is to support teachers in monitoring their digital pedagogical competence, organized into eight competence profiles and six development…

Distance Learning - DL - launched with the sanitary emergency by Covid-19 suggests the possibility to design virtual learning environments that allow all students to reach the highest possible level of learning, considering their social, biological, and cultural characteristics to make them feel an…

Space and time of human sociality include that of the sociality required by formal and informal learning: it appears crucial to understand the ways in which technological tools, environments and devices allow the creation of relationships and communications capable of enriching the experience of…

National Guidelines for Lifelong Guidance (MIUR, 2014) indicate the need to strengthen web resources to combine "face-to-face" orientation with e-guidance mode and respond to new guidance needs. In the current context, in which the school needs to adopt remote teaching methods, the institutional…

This contribution proposes a study on the ways in which climate change is perceived by young people aged between 16 and 20 who live in the capitals of two cities in Southern Italy, Palermo, the capital of Sicily and Catanzaro, the capital of Calabria. Through ethnographic interviews, based on the…

This article describes the results of a research that involved 814 school operators on the inclusive processes activated in the school during the lockdown. The survey, conducted through the administration of a questionnaire, was aimed at understanding if and how much DaD has succeeded in ensuring…

The historical moment we are experiencing inevitably traces the way for an educational, social, cultural, economic, health and political change. Accepting the challenge of our times, this article intends to read the current "crisis" as a problem of commitment and responsibility on the part of…

Teachers’ professional growth and competences development have been at the center of national and international debate for several years. Numerous European documents have contributed to strengthening and spreading the culture of continuous training and the professional growth of teachers and…

In museums, the stratification of the realities of life and its historical process are preserved and ask to be understood. Every research grows by chasing the traces of the past, becoming a story in which we bring down the lived experience of our young people, giving birth in them the need to…

The paper examines the transformations that distance learning has introduced in the learning environment, with particular reference to the fragmentation of educational interventions (alternation between face-to-face teaching and online teaching) and the consequent impoverishment of social relations.…

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement interventions understood as continuous performance improvement, and empowerment, i.e., a value orientation for working in the community and a theoretical model for comprehending the process and consequences of efforts to exert…

The school in the third millennium was induced to reflect on the transformation of the entire school environment and on the change in teaching, when the traditional slate blackboard was replaced, replaced by the interactive multimedia one, the books on paper were integrated or replaced with versions…

Aim of the paper is to offer a reflection on emergency educational planning, analyzing the project documentation developed by the nursery and preschools of Rome in the first period of the health emergency of Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the paper presents the results of the first phase of…

The educational research is essential to deal with difficult and emergency situations, to reflect on relationships between school and family, and to qualify the process of distance education (Ciarnella & Santangelo, 2020; Nirchi, 2020; Perissinotto & Bruschi, 2020; Moretti & Morini,…

The Greek etymology of the word “crisis” indicates in the word “opportunity” the most appropriate translation into the Italian language. This was the horizon of the experience conducted with a group of students from a secondary school of first and second grade. Attempts have been made to…

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodologies based on machine learning and deep learning is now present in all aspects of our daily lives, including our education. The world of education, at any level, has to consider the predominant role that AI plays in the modern world. In April 2018,…

Prensky (2001) coined the term digital immigrant indicating one who resists digital change. The European Digital Agenda since 2014 has defined various measures and allocated resources to reduce the phenomenon of the digital divide (AgID) . Today, it is increasingly urgent to develop a new skill in…

The essay proposes the analysis of the potential that an Artificial Intelligence System applied to teaching and developed within the academic context, it can represent a tool for accompaniment to improve the student learning and the teacher’s educations in e learning. The aim is to obtain a system…

We present the case study of a project funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture in which the partners were selected to experiment an urban regeneration process using AI and Big Data, together with art and design. A consortium was formed to introduce IAQOS, an experience in community AI which was…

To reduce and prevent the risk of drop-out, we believe it is useful to set up specific Ongoing University Guidance interventions conducted on a digital platform and based on affective, cognitive and metacognitive self-assessment processes for integration into the university context, with timely…

Humanoid robotics will help us to live better (Cingolani, 2018): human-like robots able to interact with their surroundings are no longer science fiction, but they can be purchased by e-commerce platforms. Dealing with the new evolutionary paradigm based on artificial intelligence and machine…

The contribution reports the data related to the monitoring of the first year of the project "Solo posti in piedi. Educare oltre i banchi", financed by the Social Enterprise “Con i Bambini”, with the aim of fighting educational poverty in L'Aquila, ten years after the earthquake that struck it…

A territorial analysis of the Index of Educational Poverty points out that the Italian regions which have the lowest scores in terms of educational poverty are those that are more willing to participate in the calls for applications for founding provided by the ESF and the EFRD. A longitudinal…

The contribution presents some results of a survey on the relation among the quality of university experience, dropout, resilience and earthquake, conducted at the University of L'Aquila. The latter represented a university context located in an area of high fragility, which offered the opportunity…

In Italy, the right to study is guaranteed without any discrimination to Italians and foreigners (Article 34 of the Constitution). Among the national targets there is the aim to invest on training actions of operators and on renewal of educational and vocational guidance measures, also aimed at…

The lockdown due to Covid-19 required recourse to personal and community resilience. To investigate this ability, the RRC-ARM questionnaire (Resilience Research Center - Adult Resilience Measure) was administered to a sample of 455 adults. The questionnaire has been adapted to the Italian context…

The contribution presents the research-training implemented within the EduSostenibile project, funded by the “Con i Bambini Foundation”. The project proposal has promoted the birth and development of Educating Communities which has resulted in the construction of eight Territorial Educational…

The contribution presents a reflection, based on research, on the theme of guidance and enhancing the competences of foreign students in the CPIA (Center for adult education). Access to education of migrants requires methods suitable for promoting an effective inclusion process. The CPIA are the…

Starting from the concrete experience of the New Generation Community (NGC) project, selected by the Con i bambini Foundation, part of the Fund for the fight against child educational poverty, with a portfolio of forty-three subjects, the article considers the perspective of the educating…

This contribution presents an experience conducted during the Coronavirus -COVID19 pandemic to investigate students' emotional distress. The typology of this discomfort is located within emotional poverty, which has its roots in the absence of equity and social justice, to which difficulties linked…

The purpose of this contribution is to evaluate the self-efficacy perceived by the educator who operates in contexts of disability in the management of complex problems (Bandura, 2006) such as those characterizing the period of health and social emergency derived from COVID-19, where educational…

In Italy, the health emergency has had strong consequences on people’s lives, amplifying already evident inequalities and generating new ones. In the field of education, there have been heavy effects on educational poverty: the rapid move to distance learning (at least its “emergency” version…

Affective poverty, strongly related to emotional illiteracy, has lifelong implications for the individual and can manifest through different behavioural problems. In this work, we took into consideration callous-unemotional (CU) traits, which are judged as one of the most serious forms of emotional…

How can we develop training courses through distance teaching ensuring same learning opportunities for all students taking into account different forms of communication and a plurality of educational mediators (Damiano,1999)? Starting from the recent and fruitful assumption that teaching is design…

The national health emergency, caused by the spread of Covid-19, involved the school system and required an effort to the school-family alliance and to institutions in order to promote e-learning. The paper describes strategies adopted to reschedule an educational project for primary schools,…