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…

The covid-19 health emergency, with the containment and isolation measures adopted, has produced new ways of remote relationships, experienced by people in private and professional contexts through the use of digital platforms. Platforms have become the new virtual meeting, aggregation and learning…

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 article discusses a key issue of the legislative, social and cultural policies of today’s complex societies: the dialectical question between social integration, multiculture and interculture that refers to the pedagogical relationship between self and otherness. In particular, this report…

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…

What happens to university students during the COVID 19 emergency, when the University is betrayed (in the literal sense of the term, i.e. transported in a new dimension), and students leave the lessons in presence, to suddenly move to on line platforms? This is what we wanted to investigate in a…

Potential actions aimed at the creation and development of an Italian “New School”, capable of leaving no one behind, could be traced in many contexts: infrastructures, ministerial programs, laws, regulations and much more. This essay intends to establish a specific scope of action, determining…

In its educational, education and training values, schools are complex places on several levels: organisational, managerial and didactic. As a democratic device for the development of every citizen, the school is a milieu for promoting skills to inhabit the complexity of the processes under way and…

The robots are becoming more and more common in everyday life. In the last years their use has also increasingly spread to the field of didactics, starting with their use as tools in STEM education. With the advancement of social robotics, the use of robots in didactics has been extended also to…

This contribution, examining the Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR), an emerging form of Assistive Technology that incorporates all robotic systems capable of providing assistance through social interaction (Feil-Seifer & Mataric, 2005), aims to initiate an organic reflection on the potential…

Starting from the Lippmann-Dewey debate, this paper relates its themes to nowadays’ society, understood as featured by complexity, difficult access to scientific information, and poor political involvement. Such context prompts the authors to adopt Barber’s futurology, which envisages three…

In the innovative climate of continuous experimentation in which we are involved, development should be regulated not only by technical-scientific disciplines but also by humanistic ones such as education, psychology, anthropology and philosophy in order to train scientists to program machines that…

The paper analyzes the role that artificial intelligence can assume in the definition of more stimulating and inclusive teaching-learning environments, with particular reference to the possibility of supporting teaching action through augmented reality experiences. Augmented reality allows you to…

The paper analyzes the role that artificial intelligence is taking on in teaching processes, with particular reference to the possibility of monitoring students’ attention, during lessons or during an exam, using facial recognition software and movement analysis eyepieces. If on the one hand these…

In the realization that we cannot ignore that we live in what is called the infosphere, an environment in which the boundaries between the online life and the offline life in the reality of relationships, gradually disappear, this work wants to reflect on how this new environment makes it necessary…

The present article aims at providing an overview of the studies and research that, in the last years, have applied the principles of Affective Computing (Picard, 1995) to education, particularly in the supporting and developing of social and emotional competences in subjects with special…

Through an interdisciplinary interpretation reflecting the complexity of the topic, the authors intend to provide guidelines and perspectives on pedagogical research in order to analyse AI in relation to learning and lifelong training. Is artificial intelligence really a resource worthy of…

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…

Pattern of thinking have impacted the gender difference for a long time with the distribution of roles and different task depending on the gender. The attention for the physic nature, for the character and for the attitude of the men and women has product generalization, where models and stereotypes…

In western society, especially in the last decade, there has been an significant increase in the number of children in educational poverty. This situation is the consequence of multiple social factors that amplify the weaker subjects’ deprivation about their opportunities of learning and becoming…

This contribution reflects upon the issue of “educational poverty” linked to the current health situation. The emergency aroused by the spreading of Covid-19 has had multiple negative effects which, whilst affecting social and economic policies worldwide, have also experienced significant…

The digital skills are fundamental to make adequate use of the digital services of the public administration and to access to the world of work. In learning contexts, it is therefore important to increase the use of digital technologies in order to improve learning processes and to develop new…

This paper, through a study of the scientific literature, aims to understand the link between the phenomenon of educational poverty, young NEETs (Not engaged in Education, Employment or Training), and the use of new technologies in order to obtain effective training. This study deals with the…

The partnership between school and local actors is a very important organizational level factor for providing quality education, and because of the changes resulting from integrated teaching in the emergency and post-Covid19 restart phase it is even more so. The contribution focuses on the Italian…

Territorial inequality, and the consequent economic impoverishment, mean that instead of the urban dimension “typical” of the collective imagination a whole series of “minor” realities emerge, located in mountains, islands, internal and remote areas or in the suburbs of the country. In these…

The theme of educational poverty is becoming increasingly central to the national and international scientific and pedagogical debate, but also to the public and political one. The concept is multidimensional and presents the characteristics of scale necessary to frame the complexity of social and…

The 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…

The paper examines the main causes of educational poverty (economic crisis, inadequate redistribution of wealth, quality of education and training, personal choices); the social effects that can derive from the emulation of models in which the logic of “everything and now” prevails and the role…

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…

Technology, now for more than a decade, has entered the world of teaching in a predominant way, causing unconditional enthusiasm thanks to the myriad of possibilities offered by the countless applications and, at the same time, fears and harsh criticisms, especially for the consequences related to…

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…

Nearing the end of the Europe 2020 Strategy (EC, 2010) the essay aims to explore, through a meta-analysis and critical reflection, equity as one of the forms of prevention adopted by the Finnish school system, among the best in the world in terms of outcomes, participation and teachers training…

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…

This contribution aims to illustrate the contents of a learning module titled “The Italian language in the changing school”, as part of a PON project in a primary school, which involved disciplines such as Italian and Geography and which had as its main objective the reduction of scholastic…

Educational courses must be inclusive, so as to allow anyone, regardless of personal skills and needs, to complete them profitably. To achieve true inclusion it is necessary that both technological tools and teaching contents are accessible, that is, usable by everyone. But that's not enough:…

Maker Education is a cultural movement that is spreading in the educational field and that can offer significant opportunities to students in conditions of social, economic and cultural disadvantage. However, embracing the maker education movement and spreading this approach in schools and centres…

“Even people with developmental, learning and adaptation difficulties must be considered protagonists of their own growth” (MPI, 1975). This statement by the Falcucci Commission is a cornerstone of the path that has led Italy towards inclusion. In fact, although there are still pull and push out…

The paper intends to highlight the issues concerning educational poverty at the time of Covid-19 and how the inequalities that are encountered in the school environment in contexts of educational normality have become acute and / or have acquired new forms in the phases I and II. The changes in the…

The contribution aims to reflect on the recent and complex phenomenon of the implicit early school leaving in the Italian school context. This problem represents an indicator of educational inequality and lack of fairness (Benvenuto, 2016) which is rooted in the poor quality of the school system in…

Among the factors contributing to educational poverty are not only the lack of adequate educational infrastructures at a local level, but also the lack of cultural, sports and leisure educational services, and poor access to digital platforms. From data available in the literature, this article will…

The scholastic spread and dispersion is a complex phenomenon that is extended to the entire education system. The international community has for a long time invested in addressing the human right that every child has at an education, which is, therefore, an inalienable right that is due to every…

Health emergency and the following crisis for the pandemic, still alive, give evidence how much our social- economic systems create many inequalities. We can suggest, for example , not all the Countries is not able to put into action the hygienic rules to prevent the virus diffusion or in our …

The 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,…

The paper presents the first results of a survey (still in progress) promoted by the QTimes - Journal of Education, Technology and Social Studies, in collaboration with the Roma TrE - Education Foundation (University of Roma Tre) and National IRASE (Academic, Social and Educational Research…

The papers examines the elements of novelty that characterize current educational relationships, which in the era of the social emergency covid-19, become web-mediated. Teachers and students have been forced to radically change their way of communicating and interacting, without having, among other…

Distance learning is a much-discussed topic; however, it has found more space in the debates than in the practical reality due to a mentality not inclined to change. Due to the crisis of the last few months, the topic has become decidedly more current since distance teaching has proved to be the…

Distance learning has "rained" on us. The first sensations are not positive, after all, simulating at a distance what is normally done in presence cannot be the solution. We are witnessing a revolution in the Teaching-Learning relationship, everyone will have to "redefine" the personal consolidated…

This work, based on an interdisciplinary literature, reflects on the metamorphosis of technologies in society and on the responses that the person give in different dimensions: social, professional and educational. After the latest events, the digitization process is no longer a choice, but becomes…

The educational experience its emotional implications the debate on educational and social professions, that in latest years has involved the academic world and the professional associations, led to an intense exchange of experiences and, more recently, made possibile to draw up a legislative…

The sanitary emergency due to Covid-19 has and will have a strong impact on all our systems (education, training and, obviously, guidance). With the massive and invasive dissemination of distance teaching, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of digital resources and related…

The paper examines the impact of web-mediated communication on teaching, with particular reference to the dematerialization of the learning environment. The educational environment is analyzed from the psycho-pedagogical point of view in its meaning of “place of training”, part of the didactic…

This contribution aims to highlight what kind of pedagogy the DaD is capable of conveying. Drawing lessons from the moment of crisis that the country is going through, we will focus on the policies and educational actions to be organized along theoretical lines in an interdisciplinary…

The study of the relationships between culture and technology, especially in light of media studies and mediology, shows that distinctions typical of common sense, which are not always rigorous from an epistemological point of view, continue to be used in the pedagogical field. The concrete forms of…

The word “Metacooperative Learning” refers to the methodology of Cooperative Learning together with the priciples of metacognitive didactics.. The author of the present contribution developed this approach in an exploratory survey regarding pre-school children in the years 2016 and 2017. The…

Il Volume “La didattica a distanza - Metodologie e tecnologie per la DaD e l'e-learning” (Emiliano Barbuto per Edises - ISBN9788836220922 - 29 mag. 2020) rappresenta il primo volume interamente dedicato alla Didattica a Distanza, in modo estensivo e onnicomprensivo. Racconta l’esperienza della…

In literature many studies have been investigated burnout on teachers (Johnson et al., 2005; Kyriacou, 2001) as an effect of stress linked to various negative consequences in relation to various factors (Bakker et al., 2004; Leiter et al., 2000; Wright et al., 1998). In the scientific field,…

The state of emergency caused by COVID-19 has forced the closure of non-essential production and commercial services and activities and all face-to-face educational and training activities. Workplace training has required more time - compared to schools and universities - to resume activities via…

The article presents a Collaborative Research path between teachers and researchers, based on the analysis of practices and their transformation. The focus has been placed on the concept of task, an instrumental artifact that, even in a virtual situation, is configured as: a space for the…

This research investigates and analyses the emotional, social, and relational responses and attitudes put in place by children in order to react to the health emergency caused by the spread of Covid-19. Moreover, this study aims to develop an educational intervention tool that can be available to…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Higher Education Institutions had to quickly shift from a traditional or blended approach to an online one and find solutions to foster students’ engagement and motivation. This paper aims to describe the pilot experience of an instructional methodology based on…

The measures aimed to contain the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) led to social distancing and limitation of exits also at didactic level. Physical movement has been drastically limited or interrupted, with important consequences on mental and physical well-being. It can thus have a negative…

The health crisis triggered by COVID-19 puts the right of students to obtain a fair and appropriate education under stress. The assumption that the suspension of physical activities may involve an impoverishment of educational growth inspired this study, The National Operative Programme (PON) tried…

The contribution presented aims to give an account of a specific university experience, responding to the need for micro level analysis and proposing to enter the "black box" of a "class" inhabited by 40 students of the Master's Degree Course in Pedagogical Sciences. It also aims to share the…

A university department of social sciences engaged in a collective reflection on the distance learning experience during the Covid-19 emergency. Before the university decided, it chose the way of pluralism of digital solutions in favor of the continuity of teaching. The article discusses the first…

This paper addresses the issue of evaluation in distance learning (in France they call it continuité pédagogique, an expression that clearly refers to a pedagogical and cultural implicit, that is not in the expression “distance learning”) by taking an exploratory approach centered on teachers'…

The article highlights the role taken by technological resources in the emergency situation that we are tackling, witnessing either the extraordinary formative performances or the relational skills developed by digital media. In particular, it is the educative system that constitutes an interesting…

DaD is not the simple reproduction of traditional teaching practices with virtual tools, it is a teaching that requires an innovative approach, as on the basis of social constructivism, it pursues the objective of creating learning situations in which the student can independently and responsibly…

The present transformations and challenges that Knowledge Society demands, as well as the main implications that Information and Communication Technologies have over higher education, universities and especially over professional development of teachers of this educational level, have a deep impact…

Le mappe concettuali vengono impiegate in maniera sempre più stabile e sistematica in tutti i settori in cui è importante e necessario gestire e rappresentare la conoscenza, di conseguenza anche in ambito didattico-formativo. La conoscenza rappresentata con le/nelle mappe concettuali è…

In the new scenery, digital skills are essential for the promotion of digital literacy, to facilitate and allow technological and social innovation, to increase digital inclusion and to respond to the needs of a society in constant and constant change. In this scenario, the research and action…

The contribution starts with a reconnaissance in the study of emotions, of which prevailing conceptions are declared. Interdisciplinary reading on the topic allows you to focus on the educational value of the emotions, in the human life and in the formal experiences.

Deprivation and inequities are key determinants of social exclusion and marginalization. An additional factor compounds the negative effects generated by deprivation and inequity: educational poverty. Although it has been largely overlooked both in theory and in practice, educational poverty…

Teachers’ digital competence is one of the key elements for tackling the many and new challenges found in today schools. For this reason, it is crucial to start a reflection on the concept of Digital Pedagogy, an approach that integrates technological competencies with a profound pedagogical…

The study presents a research aimed at monitoring and analysing, through Learning Analytics (LA), the main actions that students / trainees undertake online to reflect and respond to different training needs. The analysis, which emerged from a careful and systematic reading of the data, provided…

The paper presents the results of a research carried out by Indire in the field of work based learning. Focusing on the development of the competencies for the citizen and the worker of the future, we selected some experiences oriented to engaged the students in the develop innovative and creative…

The technological innovations linked to the expansion of digital technology to production, distribution and consumption processes, brought up contrasting visions regarding their effects on work. The possible benefits connected to them are not uniformly distributed among skilled/unskilled workers, in…

The first part of the essay analyses the importance of the audiovisual document for contemporary history and the educational and emotional function of documentary and fiction films in the teaching of 20th century history. The second part proposes a formative path with the use of the audiovisual…

Italian public opinion has become familiar with guaranteed minimum. Concerning this measure, the discussion has gained momentum once again during the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic with the proposal on the so-called quarantine income. The debate concerns the very idea of society, and therefore…