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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surveys on the financial literacy levels of Italians show that there are still many categories of people at risk of social exclusion; OECD-PISA surveys show that from 2012 to 2018 the financial skills of Italian 15-year-olds have not improved, while recent Bank of Italy surveys show a high diversity…

Change and innovation have spread on as new landmarks in a networked society, where new cultural challenges are now shaping up: even more so in the present crisis time, stressed by persisting Sars Cov-2 pandemia, and they are now looking forward to getting proper responses and interventions that…

How to design and implement equitable and inclusive teaching? What pedagogical paradigm should be referred to? How do technologies contribute to enhance differences and personalize students' learning paths? With the aim of achieving the goal of designing and implementing flexible and equitable…

Through a general introduction on the experiences of DaD (Distance Learning) and DDI (Integrated Digital Education), which involved all schools of all levels and also saw the most reluctant teachers approaching digital to the DigCompEdu European framework to understand how teachers of the 21st…

This paper presents a critical approach to address the concept of learning to learn. It is emphasized the qualitative nature of such an approach and the challenge it represents for education. The focus is on learning to learn as a core strategic competence for lifelong learning, since it can…

This paper describes a reflection on an experience carried out as part of a direct internship in the support specialization course at the University of Sassari. Serious Games (SG) activate gamification dynamics, develop skills and competences transferable in the real world, convey educational…

The cyborg has looked like a chimeric dream for a long time. Nowadays, the systematic development and application of convergent technological projects have made it possible to develop. Each technological evolution then walks hand in hand with the cultural self-understanding of a certain historical…

In the last decades there has been a revolution in the didactic-evaluation field, this revolution - still in progress - is called Distance Learning (DAD). This new method of teaching/learning became necessary in the pandemic period 2020-2021. It presents, as a fundamental aspect, the redefinition of…

The pandemic situation has changed many of our habits, especially in the communication and the relational fields, due to the so-called “social distancing”. The complex adaptation to the adopted prevention norms has been even more complicated for some categories, which have been further penalized…

The Covid19’s emergency forced the entire educational system, even colleges, to switch from frontal classes to remote classes (DaD). This brand new way of taking classes changed all at once roles and routines, organizational procedures, teaching methods, interaction. This article presents the…

The dynamics of know-how and professional declinations in the fields of pedagogy and didactics. The progressive epistemological autonomy of the Pedagogical Sciences and the prospective of the educational behaviour in its many professional declinations. New frontiers and transdisciplinary approaches…

This article focuses on the main stages of the short-lived experience of the regional Almanacs, or regional culture textbooks containing a variety of notions, which became part of the mandatory reading materials in primary schools during the aftermath of the Gentile Reform of 1923, with the aim of…

In an essential, rigorous and systematic way, the paper defines traits and functionalities of one of the practice the pedagogical practitioner employs in the planning and supervision of adult education actions: self-narration training circle.. The analysis deals with theoretical references, venues,…

In the digital world, socio-relational dynamics and communications take place as conversations using different language forms. Today, writing has assumed other connotations, as the linguistic codes being used are not only the traditional ones of the text, but include different symbolic and…

The current Covid-19 pandemic is revealing - in all its drama - how the biological problem is actually strongly interconnected with human, social, political, environmental and justice factors. The prevalence of corporalized, hyper-specialized, technological health care and the medicalization of…

This article suggests a consideration on value of corpo reality, that have been for a long time disregarded in formal educational situations, where cognitive and intellectual dimension of students has been given more preference in comparison with the one given to their own emozional lives, like this…

The pandemic highlighted the critical issues already present in our school for several years. However, this period of health emergency also represents an opportunity to redefine the role of the educational institution in social life and to ask ourselves what the future prospects of the education…

The Covid-19 pandemic led to further restrictions within the prison, which exacerbated pre-existing problems and weaknesses. The school in prison, which has always suffered from low visibility and lack of recognition of its specific features compared to other educational contexts, has had to face…

The crisis caused by the pandemic has made us understand the fragility of our educational system and how fundamental it is to start from a new pedagogical sensitivity that is able to enhance the ethics of responsibility. The introduction of the transversal teaching of civic education in the Italian…

Drawing on a perspective grounded on educational policy, this paper initially highlights how the post-pandemic age could bring about social change and foster the development of new shared ways of perceiving social reality—all of them being relevant for the renewal of school culture. In order to…

The pandemic emergency has strongly impacted numerous aspects of life, including education and training (United Nations, 2020). Due to the consequences of Covid-19, a multitude of situations of access to educational experiences at various levels and in the perspective of formal, non-formal and…

Covid-19 pandemic has hit all regions of the world hard. Despite efforts to contain the virus, no nation has managed to escape the infections and each person has been able to experience that the destiny of all men is united. The health emergency is teaching us that we are citizens of the same planet…

The paper analyzes the transformations to which teaching has been exposed during the pandemic emergency, with the aim of reflecting on the limits and opportunities offered by distance learning. The pandemic emergency has forced teachers and students to review not only the methods of teaching, but…

One year after the start of the pandemic, each child and adolescent globally has lost seventy-four days of education: more than a third of the school year. One hundred and twelve billion days of education lost, especially among the world’s poorest children (UNESCO and Center for Global…

This paper represents a reflection on the critical issues that the Italian school has faced during the pandemic, in order to identify an inclusive educational culture. Starting from some national in progress researches (SIRD; Agnelli Foundation, University of Bolzano, LUMSA University &…

Culture is our heritage, made by the long chain of generations, and each of us is heir and caregiver of it. Everybody and the community can enjoy this heritage when an increasing number of citizens of all ages and backgrounds have access to it. The democratic states ideally grant this access, but…

The objective of this article is to identify the indispensable and qualifying element of inclusive practices, long in the educational and scholastic vocabulary, but made dramatically prioritized by the pandemic: the inclusive attitude of the teacher. This objective requires the rethinking and…

The strong limitations to teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic raise fears that in the school there may be a loss of learning in all school grades. The learning loss, which occurs in periods of prolonged interruption from lessons, cannot currently be calculated exactly. The lack of INVALSI data for…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…