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…

Playing videogames can positively affect health and well-being in older adults, alleviating the loss of cognitive functions and promoting a better lifestyle. The videogame industry recently started to produce games and apps specifically aimed at promoting physical and cognitive training (exergames…

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the higher education system had to reconsider its approach to teaching and evaluation to address the issue of students' lack of motivation. This paper illustrates how the gamification-based course "Nuove Tecnologie per l'Educazione e la Formazione" (A.Y. 2021/2022) was…

This paper is a qualitative case study which explores university teachers' attitudes towards gamification, their expectations about the use of a gamified approach in HE courses, and their willingness to adopt this approach. This study also intends to highlight strategies by which HEIs interested in…

Digital learning increases cognitive and social skills (Anolli & Mantovani, 2011). This paper explores the use of Serious games (SGs) as online and collaborative learning tools. It reports the experience of an intervention addressed to 90 university students and the evaluation of the…

This paper presents an experience conducted by the writer within the Support Specialization Course of Roma Tre University in order to investigate whether and to what extent play is tolerated within a group of adults in training. More specifically, starting from the principles and methodology of Open…

In consideration of the growing application of seriuous games in multiple contexts (Breuer & Bent, 2010; Donovan, 2012; Bertolo & Mariani, 2014), the contribution bears witness to a training experience rooted within a formative culture that recognises in the “serious game” a fertile…

Serious Games (SG) represent an innovative and increasingly popular learning mode in a variety of fields, including education, vocational training and personnel selection. The use of such tools is based on the ability to engage users in playful activities, aimed at assessing and developing specific…

The contribution presents a game-based training experience aimed at high school students, developed as part of the "Career Development and Future Professions'' orientation course offered by the University of Siena and funded through PNRR resources (D.M. 934/2022). The course involved 5 high schools…

“We can always do something. Didactic itineraries for legality” (Gianeselli, 2023) : in this project the serious game is built in four phases. The classroom’s setting is the simulation of a debate with the dialogical paradigm already experimented by Pasolini in the theatrical field and the use…

The central role of Serious Games (SG) in the development of soft skills, of the worker's personal competences, prompts pedagogical reflection. In fact, if on the one hand their presence is propaedeutic to better performance in work roles, on the other hand one cannot ignore the formative scope for…

L’opera di Giovanni Moretti approfondisce il tema della leadership educativa, concettualizzata come diffusa, situata e democratica, indispensabile per affrontare con consapevolezza e in modo cooperativo situazioni di complessità e incertezza. Il volume si colloca nella nuova collana “Formazione…

Online hate speech is receiving more and more attention in the present society as a great concern: this phenomenon is rapidly increasing, mainly through the widespread use of social media that expose young people to dangerous content. This makes it urgent to define an integrated and…

The health emergency caused by Covid-19 and the drastic interruption of face to face school activities have emphasized the importance of school-family relationship, as a guarantee of educational continuity especially in the weakest age groups. Distance Learning, first, and Integrated Digital…

The pandemic situation has drastically reduced the opportunities for movement and socialization of children even in the school environment, forcing them to carry out remote lessons, distance learning and digitally augmented education. Therefore, we will propose the method of active breaks or active…

The aim of this work is to valorising the transformative potential of engaged pedagogy (hooks, 2020; Freire 1970, Bianchi, 2019), through situated research, which has as its field of reference the School of Fight 8x5 in Prato, in which the researcher is absorbed. In this way, we want to give back…

The glut of information triggered by the network’s devices (intentional or not) risks limiting or preventing the rational procedures that allow their reliability to be verified. We are witnessing a crisis of critical-reflexive skills (Davies, 2019) whose history would be too challenging to…

In music modulation is a tonal shift, without interruption, of musical discourse. Modulations, as passages and transitions, characterise adolescence in all dimensions of the subject, involving voice, body, emotions and thought. In this essay, the musical metaphor of modulation is adopted to…

Affectivity and emotions are central to sociological reflection, especially if applied to the bullying (Olweus, 1996; Chiarugi, Anichini, 2012) and cyberbullying (Civita, 2006; 2022) study. These are complex social phenomena that, among many variables, are characterized by “gender” (Perasso,…

Italian Constitution assigns school a key role for social justice: assuming equity as a horizon of pedagogical meaning is essential. However, old and new inequalities weigh on students’ educational paths, generating iniquity. In this context, Antonio Gramsci’s thought on school is an important…

This contribution aims to understand the new forms of “ecological citizenship” (LS, 211) practised by generational 'cohorts' within a society characterised by crisis and abrupt changes. The ecological challenge matches the intergenerational dimension, relating Gen Z (Twenge, 2018) and adults…

The collaboration between neuroscience and pedagogy is today more fundamental than ever to understand what happens at the neuronal level when the subject learns, builds and organizes his own knowledge to elaborate a creative response and identify a solution to a problem. The studies conducted by…

Education and schooling represented for fascism, through indoctrination, one of the privileged strategies for obtaining the consent and mobilization of the entire Italian population, which was somehow brought to homologation with the prevailing principles and ideologies. But fascism cannot only be…

The topic of teaching professionalism has long been at the centre of the educational and training agendas of the various countries. How such expertise is recognised, supported, and promoted depends on the political, economic, and cultural background of each of them. The debate on the “expert…

The article starts from some solicitations of Pope Francis regarding the urgency of a new ecological thought, which permeates culture and education tout court, and of a new vision of the human person that is characterized by its tension to recognize in the "other" a brother. In particular, it…

The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic has created a significant revolution in the way emotions are expressed, stress management, interpersonal relationships and lifestyle. Most affected has been schools where stress levels, in particular, in students and teachers have risen. In such a scenario - taking into…

Establishing a common framework for quality assurance (QA) in Europe is a pillar of the Bologna Process to strengthen the quality of teaching and learning in higher education (HE). QA rules have been implemented in Italy with diverse structures and timeframes between Universities and Higher…

Italian State Schools abroad constantly face an important challenge: guiding their students to face academic and informational barriers to University entry, combining the spread of Italian Culture abroad with the potential and real possibilities students have to move and get grants and scholarships…

The combination of disability and sexuality is a topic which still deserves deep analysis within the special-pedagogical research field, still dealing with taboos and prejudices. Teachers may promote a new culture of sexuality (within and with disability), only if they are seriously trained to…

The in-service training of tenured teachers is mandatory, permanent and structural (paragraph 124 of Law 107 of 2015) and it represents ethically, as well as legally, the fundamental prerequisite for the professional development, both individual and for the entire teachers’ community. For the…

The implementation of advanced manufacturing solutions in companies makes possible to improve the productivity, quality and production flexibility introducing new types of human-machine interactions that require appropriate assessment from an occupational health and safety perspective. In this…

The study aims to reflect on the training of future primary school teachers by starting from the use of the e-portfolio as an innovative tool to promote the acquisition of reflective and self-evaluation competence within the flipped classroom. The research, involved 154 students of Primary Education…

Despite the existing debate about the potential critical issues in translating neuroscientific findings into effective educational practices, Educational Neuroscience (EN) could be defined as an interdisciplinary field involving different perspectives and research areas in in constantly developing.…

Within the institution of the integrated Italian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system for children aged 0-6, a central aspect is the quality of services, besides their quantity. Legislative Decree 65/2017 provides for the establishment of Pedagogical Territorial Coordination groups…

The resort to distance (digital) learning, forced by the pandemic, has shed light on the urgence of laying the foundations of a digital inclusive education. Accordingly, this has now become a top priority in national and international agendas. The Erasmus+ project DigIn addresses this need by…

The development of a meaningful school-territory relationship is promoted by legislative indications and is implemented by building an educational offer that includes the expectations of families and the socio-economic context. The aims concern the design of pathways for the development of active…

The article presents a summary of the main outcomes of the project titled “Making Learning and Thinking Visible”, an initiative resulting from the collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Boston, MA), INDIRE and three upper secondary schools in Italy. The paper will…

The studies carried out in the field of neurosciences, motor sciences and the consequent didactic applications have highlighted the need to start processes for the planning and organization of contents, organizational methods and methodologies in physical education and in introducing sports, to…

Representations of disability have taken different forms over the centuries. From the exhibition of the monstrosities (of those were considered non-compliant) we have come to the exaltation of the tolerance of the different/disabled. Prejudicial attitudes and compassionate rhetoric – as well as…

This paper concerns some self-assessment initiatives in a comprehensive school in Rome (primary and lower secondary school) in 2021 and 2022. In particular, a written semi-structured interview on the well-being and discomfort conditions, developed by a group of teachers in collaboration with the…

For many years the scientific literature, almost exclusively international, has questioned the potential that Artificial Intelligence has in Education, in favoring the processes of inclusion and in modifying learning environments in an inclusive direction. Experiences of educational robotics…

Educational intervention by means of music implies improvements in language and sound recognition related to a certain letter, as the musical sound can support the written symbol. The auditory stimulation resulting from listening is a mechanism through which the child can therefore improve in letter…

In a globalised world, schools mirror a changing society. The research aims to identify the role of Intercultural Education in preparing future teachers. The study focused on the historical course of intercultural education in the European and former Soviet space. A comparison is made between…

The contribution describes phases and tools of a participatory research process, aimed at experimenting a fast and intuitive method for developing organizational wellbeing in an Italian company. It puts into practice the concept of sustainable employability and Amartya Sen's Capabilities approach…

The present work consists of an experiment, in a broad sense, of using an Artificial Intelligence model to define the state of the art on Artificial Intelligence in education. In short, we asked an Artificial Intelligence what Artificial Intelligence is, what are the possible applications in…

The essay presents the first results of the research that investigated the variegated universe of competences possessed by “future teachers”, i.e. those enrolled in PF24, the Training Path for the acquisition of 24 credits in anthropo-psycho-pedagogical disciplines, of the University of Naples…

The paper aims at illustrating the theoretical framework that has been used within the DigiCulture project (Erasmus+ KA204) to design, realize and evaluate the Digital Skills and Social Inclusion for Creative Industries MOOC Courses. Based on the data obtained from empirical research activities and…

The Ministerial Ordinance 172/2020 has modified the model for assessing the learning outcomes of pupils attending primary school, proposing an assessment system that leaves out the numerical grade and introduces descriptive judgment in the periodic and final assessment. As is clear from the…

The viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are rooted in the body’s interactions with the world aimed at gathering and collecting as much information as possible: cognition is situated, body based and for action (Wilson, 2002). From this perspective, embodied cognition…

This paper aims at presenting a survey dedicated to students, which investigates the awareness and beliefs they have about being part of the European Union and a European university alliance. Indeed, the recipients of this research are students belonging to the 6 founder institutions and to the…

The paper reflects on the formative potential and the limits of a typology of feedback scarcely explored in the literature, the collective feedback in the field of online education. The study evaluates the quality of formative feedbacks in a Professional Development Program on school evaluation…

This paper aims at building a state-of-the art pedagogical strategies to adopt in primary school to promote the inclusion of pupils from migration backgrounds, according to an intercultural approach. This framework, in fact, is currently missing, despite a flourishing scientific production in this…

This contribution aims to describe a good practice of digital literacy for the elderly population by insisting on an intergenerational educational logic. The Cyber School for Grandparents project aimed to train students attending the High School of Human Sciences to become warm experts of their…

The use of educational technologies allows on the one hand a greater personalization of learning and on the other hand offers a diversification of the contents to be presented. The literature has highlighted the value of the use of storytelling in the context of educational communication and thus…

Complex communication needs (CCN) in school settings may hinder the participation of student with Autism Spectrum Disorder also affecting their quality of life, relationships and learning process. For this reason, it seems appropriate to promote a Didactics that pay attention to student’s…

As systemic organization which interacts with the external environment (Weik, 1976), the school has to provide suitable solutions for the multiple challenges of the context, in order to reach a quality education for all and each one. Considering it and the feature of the school as organization based…

Daily experiences are achieved by remaining connected to digital environments, in a dimension defined as onlife. To date, in fact, "virtual" environments and "real" environments can no longer be considered distinct "places", both representative of learning contexts where people, especially young…

The “generation Z” is the one that, since its birth, has had access to the Internet and social network: Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok are the "daily diet" of this generation. The rhetoric of digital natives according to which young people have different learning and information processing…

How neuroscientific research can help educational sciences and education and understand cognitive pro-cesses is the challenge of those involved in educational neuroscience. Neuroscience seems to be an invisible matrix of other sciences and practices, and it is easy to be tempted to fall into a…

After a long regulatory process, the educational offer of motor and sports education in the Italian primary school is enriched, thanks to the inclusion of the Sport Sciences specialized teacher with the intention of enhancing corporeity in its multiple expressions as a personal right and cognitive…