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…

Over the past fifteen years, the subject of the pedagogical and technological renewal of higher education has received increasing attention. When appropriately introduced in education, technologies offer new opportunities for the improvement of teaching and learning. Recently, an area of particular…

Starting from the original suggestions offered by the thought of bell hooks, we intend to decline some of the concepts of the author within the framework of the pedagogy of inclusion. The post-Covid condition has left us a school profile, unbalanced digital training, which needs to be reviewed by an…

Il titolo della presente Call manifesta una duplice intenzione: da una parte richiama l’attenzione sulle competenze e dall’altra vuole avviare un dialogo fra prospettive e letture disciplinari che pur nella loro specificità e diversità possono tracciare linee e direttive comuni. La finalità…

In questo numero della rivista QTimes - Journal of Education, Technology and Social Studies si propone uno spaccato del dibattito nazionale sulle competenze non cognitive. Il contenuto riportato in auge dal disegno di legge n. 2493 approvato alla Camera dei deputati l’11 gennaio 2022, afferma…

In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the so-called "non-cognitive skills" in relation to learning processes and the role they play in people's personal and professional lives. This led to the bill no. 2493 on the introduction of the development of non-cognitive skills in the…

Non-cognitive competences refer to thought patterns, personal traits, motivations and behaviors that are built and changed over the course of life in a continuous transformative learning process and have a positive effect on social life and career paths. The narrative biographical approach within…

The pandemic emergency of recent years, followed by the international conflicts between East and West, have materialized the concerns of the general public, beginning with those of children. The shock of a health, human and nuclear catastrophe has also entered the classroom, driven by the…

Starting from bill 2372/22, now in the Senato as Ddl 2493/22, the essay explores the link between non-cognitive competences and equity and social justice in education, thematizing the multiplicity of expressions referring to this domain of skills and attitudes and seeing in Philosophy for Children a…

The complexity of our time presents education with new challenges. Among these is that of youth discomfort, which risks halting young people's constitutive openness to the possible. Against this risk, education must become a moment of cultivation of cognitive and non-cognitive competencies that are…

In the current educational context, characterized by school autonomy, the importance attributed to evaluation is growing; hence the need to identify ways of structuring learning paths capable of improving the outcomes of project interventions. The centrality of a reflection that interests the…

Intelligent personal assistants, conversational agents that can dialogue with humans through speech, have quickly entered the homes of people around the world, as smart speakers. Thanks to the use of the voice channel instead of the visual/tactile one, they allow people to perform many hands-free…

The intention of this contribution is to discuss the types of social aid organizations. The reflection aims to identify to what extent a pedagogical approach centered on the person and equipped with the most up-to-date educational reflections can create a quality training system in the helping…

The recognition and enhancement of the human represent the core of the social contract to which the Unesco report “Reimagining our Futures together: A new social Contract for Education” refers. The school of today, therefore, is called to realize what is foreseen in the report through new…

The current debate on the skills (soft, life, socio-emotional,… ), further revitalized by the draft law n. 2372/22, can be read as an expression of the need to raise – again – the question about which are the traits that allow us to recognize the human, such that it is. Without pretending to…

Human capital represents the most important resource available to countries for equitable and sustainable social and economic growth. For this reason, all states should commit themselves to pursuing policies aimed at guaranteeing universal and permanent access to the education and training system.…

Since the end of the XX century, the construct of competence has gained a central role in the redefinition of school system’s educational goals (Rychen & Salganik, 2001; EU-Lex, 2006; 2018; MIUR, 2010). However, according to the criticalities highlighted by recent national and international…

The aim of this contribution is to focus on the skin’s colour, a "mere" morphological characteristic, which has influenced and still influences the corruption of inter-human relations and, consequently, the formative paths of humanisation. Inside the multifaceted galaxies of racism, colourism - as…

The new educational emergencies, exacerbated by the pandemic situation, highlight the need for a pedagogy committed to building new possible paths of “social citizenship”, declined in its complexity and multidirectional: on the one hand as civicness, on the other as citizenship. The debate on…

The paper presents a critical analysis of the concept of “non-cognitive”, often used by policymakers, educators, researchers and teachers when addressing that vast and varied set of skills that affect students’ learning but that do not fall within areas such as mathematics, literacy, numeracy…

“Skills for life” are not simply identifiable with non-cognitive skills. They are a very different object from other constructs in use, often used synonymously, such as “transversal skills”, “managerial skills”, “soft skills”. Understanding their specificity allows us to define the…

This work embraces the most recent contributions of Italian special pedagogy (Pinnelli, 2019; 2017; Sorrentino, 2020; Cinque, 2013) and of international pedagogical research (Gagné, 1985, 2004) on giftedness and talent in the sports field (Platvoet et al., 2015), as well as on approaches (Faber et…

In this theoretical article, we define Learning to Learn (L2L), at the intersection between cognitive and non cognitive skills. We then point to a pedagogical pathway to develop L2L since early childhood, framed in a sociocultural perspective. In this line of thought, we describe L2L’s empowerment…

Today's digital contemporaneity requires more than ever the ability to relate and to socially connect, even and above all, at a distance, without however ever neglecting the emotional and empathic aspects that characterize, shape and found educational communication. This article discusses the…

In the last two years, pupils and school and teaching staff have experienced situations of discomfort, malaise, stress, distancing, learning deficits and relationship problems. To contrast this acute phenomena caused by the pandemic, schools are now invested with new responsibilities and are called…

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 French intellectual Michel Foucault describes how the concept of madness has developed over time and how it has integrated into the social and pedagogical order of Western society, transforming the person into an excluded individual deprived of his freedom. He dealt with the development of…

The policies of educational systems, as the driving force behind indications, real measures and concrete practices, are the space by means of school integration can be investigated, though it is not the only one. In this sense, it seems interesting to refer to international policies in the field of…

The article proposes a reflection on the assessment of technology-mediated museum education, with particular reference to serious games, virtual ludic simulations with educational and training purposes which, using digital devices, reproduce real situations and experiences. The introduction of…

L’apprendimento umano è indubbiamente un tema di estremo interesse, non solo per gli addetti al settore, ma anche per chiunque intenda comprendere come si apprende nel corso della vita, non solo in ambito formale, ma anche nei contesti non formali e informali

Il volume Ricerca sperimentale e processi valutativi in educazione (Experimental Research and Evaluation Processes in Education) di Gaetano Domenici, Pietro Lucisano e Valeria Biasi, pubblicato da McGraw-Hill Education nel 2021, si propone di affrontare in modo sistematico le molteplici tematiche…

Il primo numero del 2022 di questa rivista esce in un momento delicato della nostra vita comunitaria. Dopo ventiquattro mesi di convivenza forzata con la Pandemia, determinata dal virus denominato Sars-Cov 2, mentre siamo ancora immersi nelle cosiddette ondate di contagi, con numeri stabilmente…

La sezione monografica del numero 1/2022 della rivista Q-Times ha inteso riflettere sulla progettazione scolastica e sociale a partire dal Piano Educativo Individualizzato, così come definito dal Decreto interministeriale n. 182 del 29 dicembre 2020, successivamente annullato dalla sentenza n.…

Since the Guidelines for school integration, it is made explicit that the life project is an integral part of the IEP (Individualized Education Plan) and “concerns the personal and social growth of student with disabilities” (MIUR Guidelines, 2009). The connection between IEP and life project is…

The inclusive horizon, understood as a potentially infinite process, opens up the acquisition of a critical-transformative perspective by the schools called upon to follow this process. The definition of the IEP is the planning act where the need to foster cultures, make choices and plan and…

The divergent conceptions of disability (medical model/social model) have made it difficult to grasp the innovative scope of the new models for inclusiveness adopted by the school system. The new PEI models represent a considerable opportunity for change in view of overcoming the reductive logic of…

From an ICF perspective, observing facilitators and barriers is a fundamental step in building inclusive school settings. This article proposes a model of analysis and documentation, based on general levels (the school, organization, resources and services) and specific levels (the classroom,…

This contribution aims to highlight how the perspective of inclusion and, consequently, the educational and didactic planning will have to evolve thanks to the new PEI in a line of humanisation and special attention to the "different" person. For this reason, the role of Pedagogy, faced with deep…

Today, schools are being asked to respond to increasingly pressing and complex emergencies wi-thin the education sphere, and are thus having to re-examine their role as cultural, social and edu-cational agents as far as inclusion is concerned. Often, inclusion is nothing more than a series of…

The article offers a theoretical reflection that focuses on the Individualised Educational Project as a personalised and participatory planning device for emancipation. The topic is the exit from the education cycle and the perspective of the transition to adulthood of young people with…

The paper proposes a reflection on the role played by social stereotypes, beliefs and convictions on the mental predisposition of teachers and students towards disabilities. The subject of the analysis is the teachers’ adoption of attitudes that can favor, but also hinder, the integration process…

The ICF, as a conceptual coordinator, is able to guide the methods of collaboration within the learning environments. It is presented as an expression of the capability approach. In the current analysis we intend to highlight the elements of the multidimensional and multi-perspective language of the…

According to the current lines of contemporary research, the aim of the framework of inclusive education is to respond to the diversity and learning differences of all students, through a different environmental organization for everyone. The IEP can represent an extremely important educational and…

The paper proposes a reflection on the impact that disability and its social representations can have on the identity definition of these students. The subject of the investigation is the social roles that the disabled are called to interpret in a society where fears and prejudices can often take on…

On the basis of an idea of inclusive didactics conceived as particularly committed to equity in the way educational actions are planned, carried out and evaluated, the article develops the theme of inclusive lesson planning. The present literature on lesson planning highlights how the current…

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…

In the first part of this work we focused on the main protagonists of the behaviorist movement (until the 1950s) in order to highlight its most significant aspects. In the second part of this work, however, we will focus on the early methodological models prompted by the main scholars of behavioral…

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…

Modern society, or as in J.-F. Lyotard’s (1979) words, postmodern society, is always more frequently identified as a vessel containing the conditions of human distress which derive from “destructive emotions”; these emotions change the surrounding environment such that they are eventually out…

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…

In this paper the author tries to focus the educational principles which establish the concept of “the community of practice”. Through this analysis the author gives us some concepts of social pedagogy and also clarifies the deep meaning of an inclusive school, which is one of crucial problems…

Today, digital tools are an integral part of our social fabric, and this leads us to reflect on two interrelated aspects: transformation and awareness. By transformation, we are referring to those spaces where social interaction takes place, and which, thanks to the continual growth of internet…

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 presents the joint experience between the Italian National Statistical Institute and the European Association for Economic Education (EAA) to design teaching and learning units on the themes of the 2030 Agenda. The learning units concern 3 Goals coherent with the work objectives of the…

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…

Within the Italian educational and scholastic contexts, the commitment of the socio-pedagogical professional educator, as well as all the other specialties present in the multi-professional team of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), represents an essential point of observation.…

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…

Within a few years, the word cyborg has extended its presence beyond the boundaries of scientific research and coming to invade the collective imagination: precisely, it indicates interventions on the human being that have as a result the thread and ontogenetic change of the human being through the…

This consideration begins from the evident observation regarding how technology has an important and central role in human lives. First of all, this study looks at the essence of the technique and the benefits and risks of technology. Then, it tries to deduce from its logical procedure the essential…

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…

What is the academic path of aspiring teachers? What is the perception of this role in the community? Theachers’ training is today more than ever a current topic. Different competences are requested from teacher, including planning and organizational skills in the face of the changing interests…

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…

We are all more or less aware of the role that fairy tales play in the balanced growth of a child. In his or her developmental journey, the fantasy that comes from them can certainly accompany him or her and help him or her to cope better with some of life's most important moments. But why is it so…

The new Italian legislation, in terms of inclusion, highlight the principle of self-determination and the necessity of active involvement of students with disability in their educational path. The purpose of the present essay is to define the possible strategies useful to promote the participation…

The relationship between cultural interventions and the territory has assumed particular relevance in the current educational scenario, characterized by a profound transformation in the concept of cultural heritage, also following the requests coming from the numerous stakeholders and policy makers.…

The paper seeks to examine educational potentialities and implications belonging to a pedagogical action which resorts to narrative and metaphoric language as key for a rereading of the invisible dimension of formation, fostering the encounter and comparison with the latency sphere otherwise…

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…