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…

Initial training has often changed and changed without a vision and objective that could meet contemporary challenges. In fact the quality of teacher training cannot be separated from the overall school policy of a country. If school does not become one of the basic concerns of national policy,…

This paper intends to analyze from a pedagogical point of view the relationship between Digital Natives and technologies in order to investigate how the new digital devices enter into relationship with the socialization processes and the evolutionary dynamics of the adolescent, and how they…

The article wants to describe a training to teachers of middle and high school about inclusive didactic applied on use of technologies. In the article will be presented the four modules that they characterized the course and they led teachers to acquire specific knowledges: (1) interconnections…

The paper aims to analyse a being facing and a being in relationship by listening to the other basic element for communication and educational methods that can outline an approach to knowledge that takes into account the learning processes as result of communicative relationships. This takes the…

Childhood is a cultural construction, and it is within a certain way of representing childhood that children experience and learn to relate to the context of reference; in some cases, the context, the culture to which they belong, and their families appear inadequately supportive, indeed harmful and…

The paper aims to investigate the relationship between learning processes and attachment systems in an integrated and multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the analysis will focus on the question, still not much debated in the scientific field, of the complex system of interrelationships…

In the 1960s, within the framework of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham, a number of scholars, linked by their interest in popular culture, not only denounced the industrial logic that transforms content into products, but were also in search of the…

The survey carried out as part of "Digital Connections", a two-year project by Save the Children with the Research Center on Education for Media, Innovation and Technology (CREMIT) of the Catholic University, detects a significant number of minors of lower secondary schools in which the condition of…

Within the framework of a strategy of attention to the life cycle (Pinto Minerva, 2012; WHO, 2011), the pedagogy of the elderly (Musaio, 2020) approaches the theme of care (Mortari, 2006; Iori, 2008) through the promotion of the person in his uniqueness, in consideration of the networks in which he…

The paper presents the results of a first exploratory survey on an innovative teaching project, created on the initiative of some teachers interested in practicing formative and orienting assessment with strength and continuity, as well as inclusive pedagogical methodologies. The project – “The…

This paper aims to present an ongoing experimentation in the University of Bari to the propotyping of blended learning training models in the university context. The current academic scenarios, in fact, are characterized by a particular attention to the methods of delivery and use of the training in…

The article provides an overview of the education professionals, who operate in different educational fields with an “apical” level role. Specifically, the research presents the results of a survey referred to the ex-students of Master’s Degree course in Pedagogia e Scienze dell’educazione e…

Cooperative approaches and technology are recognized as key issues in the contemporary debate on how to promote social inclusion in schools. Within the ongoing EU Project COoPING (Erasmus+ KA210-SCH) the links between them were explored through a scoping review. The ERIC database was queried to…

The research was carried out as part of a vast project to combat failure in university studies, the provision of guidance and mentoring for students entering the university for the first time, with a view to improving the services offered. First, it was meant to verify the content validity of a…

The third sector also represents an informal learning context where competence and knowledge are acquired, often in a tacit and indirect way. This research focuses on the strategic competences of the third sector professionals and on the pedagogical methods to make them visible and to encourage…

The paper introduces the theoretical and methodological framework behind the design of a digital internship programme (Tirocinio-on) and the related tools based on the constructs of self-directed guidance, digital work-integrated learning and career management skills. The programme involved a total…

The overcoming of the Covid-19 pandemic elicited to rethink didactic models of STEAM teaching towards the construction of methodological repertories learner-centered and inquiry-based, useful to emphasize learning through experience in highly technological contexts. Against this backdrop, the…

The spaces in which education takes place are becoming progressively more fluid, especially when we think of the advances in the development of increasingly sophisticated and all-consuming technologies and digital tools. The resulting network can no longer be configured as an actual place, confined…

In recent years, while the Covid-19 epidemic has highlighted the centrality of teachers’ skills for learning in non-standard conditions, ministerial actions related to the PNRR have led to the establishment of Teaching and Learning Centers. In 2022, a University Commission for Faculty Development…

The paper describes two Project-Based Learning experiences (PjBL) that engage future educators. The proposed projects include the creation of a radio program for the web broadcaster Radio UAO and a virtual Lego set for the Lego Idea contest. The methodology allows to acquire meaningful concepts in…

The transition from upper secondary education to tertiary education is a crucial node of awareness and empowerment that, if not managed correctly, can give life to "university drop-out". This contribution examines one of the strategies implemented by universities to handle this phenomenon: peer…

The article presents a two-year trial aimed to develop reading and writing pre-requisites in kindergarten through the enhancement of metaphonological and musical activities. On the basis of scientific evidence, it is reasonable to suppose that the use of musical play may represent a promising…

The illustrated study, by the title “Cyberbulling? No thanks, together we can! would like to present the results of a research that involved some classes in the territory of Bari’s city, on a sample of eighthundredand fifty male and female students. The focus of the research is to identify the…

About 30% of students in the world attend primary education in multi-grade classes. Multi-grade education is common in many rural areas of the so-called minority world, i.e. high-income countries such as the United States, Canada, in many European countries and in majority world countries such as…

This contribution is part of the study and research trajectories launched by the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education, Teacher education for inclusion – International Literature Review (2012) and aims to highlight how the ICF-CY (World Health Organization 2001), based on the…

The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes 17 goals, the fourth of which is dedicated to quality and inclusive education as a basis for improving people's lives. Sustainable development goes hand in hand with the construction and dissemination of a scientific approach and method, as an…

Using devices and of self-narration can be essential for those who experience multiple forms of inconvenience and think they cannot find their way in their lives, losing the meaning. They represent a toolbox for rediscovering who one is, for understanding what one has to do for what one wants to…

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced higher education systems in most parts of the world to quickly adapt to face the emergency. While a certain amount of research has focused on analysing the influence of the pandemic on teaching and learning practices or on international mobility, less interest has…

The article presents a case study dedicated to the analysis of teaching and learning resources elaborated in the scope of the FABULA C-Plus Project, developed between 2020 and 2022, through partnerships with institutions from Italy, Greece, and Spain; as well as the potentiality of these strategies…

The reception and inclusion of immigrants is a process in which educational inclusion is still a problematic node, which needs to be investigated, in order to understand what the obstacles are to access to lifelong learning and what are the necessary interventions to encourage participation. The…

Il gruppo di ricerca Didasco (Didattiche Scolastiche) del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, Psicologia, Comunicazione dell'Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, ha condotto uno studio pluriennale sui fenomeni del bullismo e cyberbullismo alla luce del quadro normativo tratteggiato dalla…

Il periodo post-pandemico ha lasciato aperte questioni importanti e ineludibili che interessano la scuola e l’educazione in generale e che interrogano tutti coloro che si occupano di insegnamento-apprendimento sulla necessità di vivere un’esperienza scolastica e didattica di qualità, capace di…

Questo numero della rivista QTimes - Journal of Education, Technology and Social Studies si propone di contribuire a un costruttivo dialogo tra i ricercatori per comporre un’indagine critica, multilivello e interdisciplinare sui divari nella competenza digitale, fornendo uno spazio in cui…

In the educational context, technology is increasingly perceived as a key element of great educational renewal. For this reason, its use must be versatile and dynamic and adapt to various factors such as the teacher, the specific level of education, the characterising elements of the discipline, the…

Due to the immersive and pervasive nature of technology and connectivity, digital skills are constantly evolving. It’s a stratified, immanent and historical knowledge, not limitated to technical skills only. It touches on the cultural, economic and political citizenship dimensions as well as the…

With the pandemic period, the generation of data has grown exponentially and in order to ensure that it can be accessed and read by citizens and future generations, new communication methods are emerging, which are immediate and easy to interpret, without the need for specialised skills. Through the…

In the wake of media education and research in the field of experimental pedagogy, this paper traces the regulatory stages, theories and empirical applications that are involved in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), with a focus on the inclusion of these tools in the educational…

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the conceptual framework of Universal Design for Transition (UDT) (Best, Scott, & Thoma, 2015; Thoma et al., 2009), a recent framework that integrates the founding principles of Universal Design for Learning (Meyer, Rose & Gordon, 2014; CAST, 2018;…

Over the past two decades, technological change has produced new digital environments capable of accommodating and enhancing the artistic and cultural heritage that exists in vision but also in interaction. The contribution analyzes the possibilities of using networked historical-theatrical…

Increasing the quality of learning and teaching by promoting a closer link with research is the main mission of the European Knowledge Area. After a first revolution that has affected the school, characterized by the introduction of distance learning, today we are witnessing an ambitious challenge…

Today there is no relational, physical, social and economic/digital phenomenon that manages to escape from algorithmic modeling: this pervasiveness of algorithms shapes and deconstructs economic and social relationships. The question is very serious and deserves a continuous pedagogical study: it is…

The ethical-functional design, programming and management of artificial intelligence and robotics represent one of the greatest challenges that the new generations are certainly facing. A challenge that commits man to a return to the sense of the relationship that he/she has always weaved with…

The paper poses as a basis for analysis a question connected to the evolution, which took place from the 2000s to today, of the amount of data relating to the European training environment and made available to teachers of all grades and levels: "2000: Data Base and E-learning Platforms; 2020: Big…

Google is the most widely used search engine in the world (Statcounter, 2022) and many users consider it an indispensable tool for accessing any content on the Web. Nevertheless, one cannot overlook the fact that the service offered by the Mountain View company is subordinate to the profits it makes…

In the educational applications of multimedia and virtual reality there is a work of redefinition of the principles relating to the construction of learning environments, and of the role assumed by digital instruments in attributing significance to real life contexts. digital skills education, an…

The relationship between giftedness and the digital revolution deserves particular attention as regards the emotional experience of gifted children and young people. They are dependent on the emotional context, they don’t know how to act without allowing themselves to be permeated by the affective…

In today's hyper-connected society, the implications of developing one's own identity, experience and collective memory are influenced by algorithms. Everything is interconnected between real and virtual World. In this panorama there is also the world of school and training that has had to adapt,…

Disinformation by non-European actors can have negative risks to the detriment of people, which are not predictable and calculable. The economic value of the production, use and development of artificial intelligences has been growing exponentially in recent years. But what are they? What are the…

In 2021 the Research Center on Education for Media, Innovation and Technology (Cremit) of the Catholic University and Save the Children proposed using the new construct of “digital educational poverty”, which broadens the concept of “digital divide”. Digital educational poverty is not…

The paper aims to contribute to the reflection on the new scenarios and to deepen the best practices that emerged in the school context during the pandemic period. Are reported the outcomes of an exploratory research carried out within the framework of a Manifestation that, integrating a plurality…

The different contexts of education - both related to the university context, to teacher training, and to different professional figures - have been going through a profound change in the ways not only of delivery and fruition of online training content. A debate, the one related to instructional…

Agenda 2030 sets out goals that refer directly to the world of education: "Providing quality, equitable and inclusive education and learning opportunities for all" (ONU, 2015, p. 14). The need for equitable and inclusive education is, in fact, a fundamental prerequisite for the improvement of people…

Starting from the principles of Karl Mannheim's sociological theory of generations and from the analysis of the 11th Civita Report "Indagine su Giovani e Cultura", focused on the knowledge of values and expectations of the young generations in the digital age in order to favour their active…

After the spread of Covid-19 in Italy, digital technologies have made it possible to carry on the ordinary activities of the various educational agencies, through the main tool of Distance Learning (DaD). This paper focuses attention on the social impact (OEC-DAC in Stern, 2016) of the DaD to…

The general purpose of this review is to analyze the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the labour market. The specific objectives consist in making explicit the relationship between AI, lifelong learning and school education and identifying the skills and capabilities needed, within this…

the article investigates the ethical relevance of artificial intelligence and the impact of technologies on the university life of the student population. Using both a theoretical and empirical approach, it is divided into two parts: in the first, the importance of ethically investigating the…

The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on the Italian school system have indirectly suggested the path that the Italian education system must be able to take in order to move toward a cutting-edge school model where the fluidity of communicative processes triggered by ICT must be able to integrate…

Digital skills currently play a fundamental epidiptic role in the ability of education systems to renew themselves and actively project future generations into an increasingly medial anthropic reality within a process of evolution which globally affects the whole of society. The multifaceted…

In the hyper-connected society, the profound and incessant technological transformation, augmented by the pandemic, inevitably reverberates in school contexts, reinforcing the innovative use of digital technology by competent teachers and school managers who are aware of the new forms of…

The unfolding educational scenario imposes reflections related to the function and decisive role that technologies can have in settings where emergency looks like a constant condition of the world and not a temporary and limited phenomenon. It requires new skills for teachers, related to the…

In the academic year 2021/2022 the research project “Prevention of domestic accidents and promotion of physical activity over 60” was carried out to promote the well-being of 8 groups of people over 60 (218 in total) in the province of Palermo. Within the project, the administration of the…

A strong expansion of digital practices has accompanied the pandemic emergence, also in education. This rapid change in an increasingly digital society implies to rethink the way education and training are designed in the various subject areas (European Commission, 2020), taking into account the…

The paper presents the main findings of exploratory research on the use of smartphones in the period of Covid-19. In particular, the quantitative survey, analyze the use of mobile phones within the family and domestic environment, specifically in the context of those family and intimate…

Due to the increasing SARS-CoV-2 infections, teaching activities in Italian schools were suspended on 5 March 2020. Since then, ministerial decrees promoted a teaching-learning process, totally or partially computer-mediated, leading to significant changes in the relational and content dimension of…

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…

Bertin's works on ethics, the phenomenology of commitment, problematicism and the rational personality helps to clarifying how the charisma of the educator must never cross over into the abuse of irrationality. In the specific case we want to try to re-read Jean Vanier's message, identifying the…

“Passing” is realised in being able to be considered as belonging to a social and relational category different from the one imposed, generally, by birth. This passing, in situations of extreme racial abuse, is necessary to survive; in most cases, it is motivated by obtaining a better quality of…

In the Autumn of 2021, the Italian Regional School Office (USR) for Sicily launched the Insieme project with the aim of supporting schools and teachers in the development of learning environments and inclusive teaching strategies and to systematize groups and practices for self-evaluation of…