The Digital Transformation has brought obstacles and opportunities within Public Administrations, which have absorbed in different ways - sometimes ambiguously - the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies. In a people centered orientation, ICT spreads a new culture, exquisitely…

A Japanese Ministerial Commission provided the guidelines for a global reform of the Educational System, to prepare students for the challenges of society 5.0; the heart of the technical-scientific training is the human factor: professional development of teachers and enhancement of the arts (MEXT,…

The essay observing the state of the art in the employment field has the objective of activating a process of reflection on the implications of socio-economic changes related to technological developments and on what it is considered necessary to know and know to be trained as individuals within the…

The gamble on the realisation of a 5.0 society will be played -in the first place- on the ground of the revaluation of postmodernity to reflect on a not entirely smoothed contradiction: on one side the unprecedented technological development and on the other side its aberration form an ethical…

Pedagogical sustainability has become a challenge that has involved not only the institutions of the various governments of the European states and the whole civilized world but also all the aware citizens who are able to offer an effective and concrete contribution through direct personal and…

The Web, in its various forms and declensions, has promoted the birth of the Infosphere, an ecosystem dominated by a continuous flow of information in which both social institutions and individuals incorporate the "logic" of the media. People's lives themselves are becoming Onlife, a junction that…

Society 5.0 theorists argue that - through the sustainable use of technology - it is possible to build a society focused on people and their needs. Other lines of research - such as the "acceleratorist" one - call for a more intensive use of technology to free the productive forces. No social…

Education for sustainability becomes a cultural challenge and an educational priority in relation to the goals of peace, justice and inclusion. The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations and in particolar Goal 4 (Quality Instruction) call Education to drive the change of society and culture in order to…

This article presents the research on education for active listening and positive didactic communication. Listening education allows students to reach a so-called "reflective" phase which favors the meeting and dialogue in the educational sphere to improve the ability to share knowledge and an…

In Italy the standardized evaluation is always very lively debated, especially during the period of administration of INVALSI tests within the schools. To map the opinions and the beliefs published in the mainstream press and on the main websites and to follow the trend over time of these an…

In the present article we outline the role played by cultural beliefs concerning healthcare in multicultural settings: in doing this, we stress the need of an "olistic care", namely the doctor has the duty to establish a dialogue with the patient, being able to understand his specific culturally…

This paper examines the problem of addictions from an educational point of view connecting it to the topic of resilience relative to subjects who present forms of addictions and their families, the community, institutions and the territory. The interdisciplinary reading of the topic allow us to…

The paper aims to contribute to the theme of “hate speeches” with a methodological proposal focused on the employability of methods that become – according this approach – promoters of social change. The idea is that through storytelling and biographical interview we can produce…

In the present article we consider illness as a metaphor: mental disorders, in particular are always polifaceted, when it comes to their origin. We need to understand all the key factors that are involved in the outcome of mental disorders. Each mental disorder is indeea a "simbol" of something, not…

Objective of the essay is the analysis of ethics communication of a cilentana company through digital communication tools. The principles upon which of Poseidonia Beach Club is based - environment, eco-sustainability and solidarity - have been underlined by Facebook and Instagram communication.…

The complexity of world of work involves the exposure to health and safety risks and to organizational or psychosocial risks too. A particular risk linked to the workplace takes the name of bullying, it has known in the 90s as mobbing, and it refers to a set of factors linked to acts of violence…

The fear of the Other and the hate speech are phenomena increasingly and socially widespread: this makes necessary an educational response to promote intercultural competences. The school could become a place to promote non-discriminatory practices and to reduce prejudice, which is usually about…

In today's society, working models and participation in community life require a more careful interpretation and a reconsideration of the methods of using personal, relational and group skills. In the School, in addition to disciplinary knowledge, it is necessary to give students the skills to…

Since its debut in Western culture, theatre has brought conflict to the stage: with oneself, the other and the context. The theatre configures itself as a place that keeps away the typical background noises of the network. It represents an instrument of authenticity, made up of acts and…

The initial definition of thruth (i.e.: the equivalence between being and soul, or thought) has been criticized during the philosophical late Modernity. Both “being” and “thought”, in fact, were considered inconsistent. The picture changed with the so called linguistic turn: in this…

The paper aims to develop a reflection on new forms of cyberviolence against women and girls (Cyber-VAWG). Indeed, often the Internet, mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) and above all social media are used as tools to inflict damage on women and girls. This is a global…

Mobbing concerns a work situation in which the worker is the victim of persecutory actions by one or more attackers who may find themselves in positions of superiority, inferiority or equality. The actions are very heterogeneous and range from simple marginalization to the assignment of…

In a globalized world characterized by great migrations (Castle, 1993), by evident and unresolved social, political, economic and environmental issues that have generated a great uncertainty in the labor market, the vocational guidance practices of Third country national citizens in Europe,…

In the current geo-political scenario, at national and international level, germs of violence, conflict and prevarication creep into the micro and macro cosmos of relationships. In this general climate of fear and mistrust, it is urgent to return to talking about hospitality and hospitality so that…

The social role of women is undoubtedly changed over time. These changes result in a new female identity and take on new psychosocial meanings, both for the women themselves and for their life contexts. The results of investigations conducted over the past ten years provide an interesting picture of…

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Bruno Rossi's text perform a survey on the subject of power, of which it gathers implicit and explicit messages. If the word "power" refers to a play of force between the parts, the meaning changes with reference to educational contexts, in which power is not a form of domination and subjugation,…

In the context of the current scientific debate, soft skills are deemed a lifelong core factor of individual choices. As a consequence, a vast educational and psychological literature tries to individuate the real nature of soft skills and to find instruments for the development and assessment of…

Educational agencies are going through a difficult transition period, with important consequences in terms of de-legitimacy of the social mandate historically assigned to the school. The reason of this widespread uneaseness can be traced in the fact that today we live in a complex system where…

In the light of the situation of the Italians in the field of reading in the European scenario and of the national guidelines for the curriculum, the importance of the “reading aloud" is reflected and indications are given as to the most appropriate places and times to practice shared reading in…

The complexity of the times we live leads us to develop autonomy, potential, skills and competences to continually build our identity, knowledge and relationships, to reach the highest level of meta-competence; therefore the deep knowledge of the processes of introspection and relative reaction. In…

This article analyses the interactions between labour-market dynamics, education and lifelong-learning policies, by examining the principal changes in the economic system and in the strategic role of education in today’s knowledge society, in relation to critical global-scenario issues, like the…

The paper arises from the results of the PhD research on the identification and validation of non-formal and informal learning, in the framework of the adult education system in Italy and on the use of the ePortfolio of competencies, conducted at the Department of Education, University of Roma Tre,…

Today's school system suffers from many problems, in this article the comparison is made with the Postdam model, where we see not only a school with different laws, but also a different attention to the discomfort, treated through the eurhythmic method.

Reading stories to preschool children in the family and offering them quality books lays a solid foundation for reading promotion. For this reason, the article aims to highlight how the family can and should be the privileged place to learn and to refine the level of emotional literacy and the…

Leaders who choose the style of transformational leadership act on group members by changing their values, needs and beliefs through consensus and participation in achieving goals. In managing occupational health and safety, transformational leaders can be of fundamental importance as they can:…

School evaluation aims at monitoring or improving the quality of the school as a whole. In order to guarantee the quality of the Education and Training system it is not enough to define and control the starting standards, but it is crucial to explain and verify the arrival standards. In such a…

The contribute offer a reflection about education’s meaning and invite us to recover the value of instruction and formation for the purpose of human realization. Only through education the individual can to rehabilitate the thought’s liberty, idea’s strength, his creative capacity and express…

In this article, mainly referring to two authors (F.Covey and A. Grün), "I reflect aloud" on what can be the references for a Leader who does not drive, and therefore is not guided, only by following the business logic or even more simply the company logic. A leader who, although responsibly…

The culture of risk is the product of social organization, and therefore of the underlying relation-ships. Fatalism, individualism, marginalization are just some of the attitudes that individuals have towards risk. Ulrich Beck (2013) deals with the issue of risk communities, that is, groups of…

The relationship between the individual and the organization in the productive sphere express a very high level of complexity, in many respects superior to that relating to the multidimensional relationship between the individual and society. In fact, the impact that the work organization, with its…

For just over five years, even in our country, under the pressure of supranational public debate, there has been much talk about “social innovation”, without it being always clear what is meant by this definition. Therefore, the objective of this brief reflection is to circumscribe the meaning…

We consider three perspectives in determing the number of persons involved in the so called "Hensel twins", a case of adult conjoined twins: 1. the materialistic perspective establishes the equivalence between the number of brains and the number of persons involved. A body having two brains is…

The dual system work-based learning (WBL) allows the students to realize part of their formative curriculum in working contexts, turning the model of tied up learning to a single disciplines into a different model that recognizes the value of the informal and not formal learnings in terms of…

The problem of evaluation is an old problem, because every time we take initiatives to achieve a training objective, we also feel the need to check if the objectives are achievable. Evaluation processes today use new technologies that are able to meet this need, but it is also necessary to give the…

Digital culture transforms citizens into people who are aware of digital phenomena and dynamics wich have changed, and will change more and more, processes, habits, lifestyles. What is the role of the Public Administration and School in accompanying young people and adults to this new journey? How…

The main object philosophy deals with from its beginning is being. Human being, because of his peculiar connection with being, is characterized by an endless deside that cannot properly be fullfilled. Consciousness is indeed twofold, being composed by 1) its formal comprehension of being…

Today, training is considered one of the fundamental interventions to improve the perception of occupational risk and to help develop and sediment culture on occupational safety. With regard to occupational safety, a timely analysis of the training needs must take note of the risk assessment carried…

This final degree proyect is base don a topic that currently has a great relevance: Promotion of the inclusion of students with disabilies. The main objetive is to promote the social inclusion of students with disabilities. First, we will choose four types of disabilities from the most common ones,…

The today’s challenge by the organizations of the public health service is perhaps basically constituted by the need to develop an individual and collective more professional empreneurship capable of urge internal and external resources through a specific and well-defined strategic orientation,…

Thanks to the tumultuous digital technologies development, nowadays we live in a world without boundaries, characterized by liquid communities that meet and collide, sometimes denying mutual recognition. We move in a communicative bulimia where information runs like in a circus where the sense and…

Questo periodo storico si presenta come uno dei più duri. I prodotti più evidenti della crisi sono chiaramente le condizioni d’instabilità, incertezza e precarietà economica, che incidono profondamente anche sullo stato sociale, educativo e culturale. Il futuro prossimo non sembra capace di…

It has been 13 years since the European Year of Citizenship Through Education. The need of the role of the education relating to European Union’s issues is now clearer and clearer. Indeed, even though the Treaties define every inhabitant of the Member States as “citizen” and give him or her…

Rethinking the role of educator in formal and non-formal educational context: this is the objective of the article. In the reflection we remember the Law 205 (c. 594-601) that regulates the profession. To recognize the value of the educator, we recall the studies of John Dewey, Maria Montessori,…

From some years burnout seems to have an increasing escalation among teachers, with serious consequences both for the person that lives the uneasiness and for the organization school and for the students. Burnout is not therefore a problem of the single teacher, on which to act individually; it asks…

A lo largo de los últimos años se han producido un sinfín de avances en las llamadas Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación, (TICs). Su incorporación a diferentes ámbitos, han jugado un decisivo papel. Por este motivo, la comunidad educativa no puede mantenerse fuera de estos…

For three years (1949-1950-1951), Maria Montessori was candidate to Nobel Price for Peace without succeeding. These Events, which have not been sufficiently studied in the personal and intellectual biography of Maria Montessori, are reconstructed in the present essay, basing on the documents from…

The aim of the following work is to analyze an effective method for managing the growing issues at the infant and adolescent level. The "Making Stories" method will be described, implemented by the Institute of Group Research and Generational Psychology (IRG) of Lugano, founded by Marcoli Ferruccio.

In performing germline therapy, looking from the topic of the ethical problems connected to our modal duties related to future generations our conclusion is that the refusal of applying the engineering technique in attempt to treat genetic diseases is not acceptable. A prohibition of this kind…

The article describes the research results on the competences ePortfolio for the recognition and validation of non-formal and informal prior learning within the framework of the adult education system in Italy, conducted by the author in the PhD in Theory and research in education, at the Department…

In the present article, we will be focusing on the possible scenarios that could raise from the analysis of the anencephalic newborn as organ donor. These scenarios are as follows: 1) organ donation is banned; 2) organ donation is possibile according to the brain death criterion; 3) in order to…

After considering authors who criticize the brain death criterion (Singer, Defanti and Shewmon), we will conclude that brain death criterion cannot be considered the death of human beings: this does not lead to ban organ transplants. On the contrary, brain death as the "point of no return" in the…

In creating an effective and positive work environment in which prospects for organizational well-being are sought, the ability to communicate, the capability to relate to "team spirit" and the widespread sense of responsibility towards goals shared all play an essential role. In these dynamics of…

The research is of an exploratory nature and constitutes an initial study phase describing the digital habits and behaviour of the teaching staff during the period in which the 2007-2013 PON was in effect in the Regions covered by the Convergence Objective (Calabria, Campania, Puglia e Sicilia). The…

L’orientamento tradizionale non rappresenta più lo strumento idoneo a gestire la transizione “sempre più critica” tra scuola, formazione e lavoro, ma deve essere integrato da una nuova impostazione capace di creare valore permanente nella vita di ogni giovane studente, garantendone lo…

La dispersione scolastica e lo skills mismatch tra competenze richieste e disponibili, nonostante la diminuzione degli ultimi anni, costituiscono ancora un grave problema per il nostro Paese, con ricadute sui percorsi personali e sul sistema socio-economico. Partendo da un recente articolo, che…

Educational agencies are going through a difficult transition period that is having important consequences in terms of de-legitimation of the social mandate historically assigned to school. The reason of this widespread uneasiness is due to the fact that today we are living in a complex system where…

Italian Universities, under some social, cultural and economic pressures, have been called to change the institutional action adding to the two traditional missions, on the one hand the Didactics for a qualified training and on the other the Research, a new objective (called "Third Mission") aimed…

Every organization shall check an activity list in order to make profit; each activity is itself depending on a series of bonds (technology, assets, human resources, infrastructures...). In-business Learning is an essential bond: without it business process could even decade till complete breakout.…

What means ‘key competences’ and why developing them is so important in today's society? This paper focuses on three aspects of 21st century school: the importance of competences in information society, the definition in international frameworks for key competences and new approaches in teaching…

In this paper we’re trying to explain the first Italian experience of collaboration between Umbria Region and Regional Education Autority (USR) for the community of “animatori digitali” (teachers with particular role for the digital transformation of schools). A special network where the…

The involvement of teachers in training is essential to produce an expansion of their professionalism and an improvement of the education service. Give suggestions, requests to change the existing instruments is a delicate operation, because it does not impact only on the cognitive dimension of…

Esta investigación se ha llevado a cabo a estudiantes de Educación Infantil del Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Bailén (Jaén, España), a sus progenitores y a una parte del docente de dicho centro. Ésta se centra en el juego y la evolución que ha sufrido a lo largo del tiempo, siendo a su vez una…

After a quick analysis of the normative evolution of the skill's concept, the essay focuses on the introduction of compulsory certification of skills; then it analyses the development, first doctrinal and then legislative, of the authentic performance concept or real life tasks; furthermore, it…

The success factors of any policy on Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) depend on the effectiveness and efficiency of the communication channels and tools used to achieve all the stakeholders. Today even in OSH sector the new communication channels such as Internet, online applications and social…

The paper come out from a series of thoughts tending to go along the path of some of the principal problems of the relationship with the Other (in particular, ”the Stranger-Other”), the kind of relationship that today, in a territory of globalized societies and actually always more multiethnic…

Deciding to work illegally today, regardless of whether it's the only choice or a personal choice, it means condemn oneself and become trapped in an enclosed scheme, which hinders progress and personal development. But the black economy has a strong impact on the lives of others: the community and…

Hace unas décadas la Formación Profesional en España ha sido siempre contemplada como segunda opción en los estudios, por detrás del Bachillerato, para el alumnado que no quería seguir estudiando. Ahora es vista como una mejor opción alternando la teoría y la práctica en empresas. El…

The Italian educational system since the seventies became a women's world, both for the massive presence of girls in all levels of schooling, both for a teaching staff composed mainly of women, so that in some scope men have become one real “rarity”. The feminine school and university education…

70 years ago, on the 2nd of June 1946, the Italian Republic raised with an institutional referendum. Moreover, a constituent assembly was elected to write the Constitution of a new democratic and social State, not more mono-gender and mono-class. The Constitution was approved on the December 1947…

This paper would to analyze the role of digital competences in educational sistem to identify lights and shadows.

In this paper we are trying to find an answer to the following questions: why the topic of quality was introduced with increasing force in the education system? Which are the reasons that allowed the transition of the quality concept from the economics and social organization language to pedagogic…

People build themselves in their life, in relationships, in inputs and in requests they get. Everyone’s life is marked by encounters, stories and experiences shared through emotions and languages, signs and phenomena that require sensitivity and communicative and relational skills to be got. These…

Charles Taylor’s intercultural theories, characterized by socio historical paths of continuity and break with tradition, by acknowledgement of identity and interculture, as well as by needs of differentiation, survival of identity meaning and cultural transposition, have largely inspired the…

High levels of school dropouts that occur in different countries focus on the pressing need to implement educational and training programs that helps to reach the reducing dropout rate goal, within the limit set by the European Commission's plans for 2020.

The assurance of quality of teaching and teacher training are complex issues and strategic objectives that the European Union supports. This focus reflects the need to ensure appropriate initial and in progress professional development education, although the training model is a major diversity of…

This article intends to analyze the self-evaluation of school taking into account the input variables of students.

The present paper reports the results of a search, still in progress, focused on the fulfillment of intervention of inclusive teaching, based on the cooperative learning method, in multicultural classes of some Comprehensive Schools (C.S.) in Southern Lazio. The initial project has the aim to…

A profound change is needed in Education as response to demands set by 21st century competences. Due to these modifications, new opportunities arise for remodeling pedagogy too, for instance providing new ways of considering learning, i. e. the acquisition of new kinds of literacy, namely…

This article intends to analyze the self-evaluation of school taking into account the input and process variables of teachers.

This article intends to analyze the reforms in recent years in regards to the Italian education system, taking into account the role of the head teacher and newly assigned responsibilities in merit of questions of particular relevancy to the life of the scholastic institution. In the framework of…

Among the many reflections on multiple levels involving educational agencies grappling with the challenges of the digital age, our contribution wishes to deepen the controversial issue of ethics of social media, and the role that the education system is called to play in terms of accompanying and…

Game-based learning has a well-established tradition at the nursery and primary schools. Traditionally, however, in the upper school levels - and even more in adult education -, there is a split between educational and recreational activities, the latter being addressed mainly to pure entertainment,…

The training citizenship plays an unavoidable role in the field of education and leads to a strict comparison between new challenges of globalization and migration and on the other hand the crisis of the nation-states and its traditional patterns. The values of the peace and cultural diversity must…

The technological, socio-cultural and economic changes and the institutional development are forcing the Universities to rethink their teaching and learning strategies. Until a few years ago (in the presence of other conditions), these strategies were the most appropriate and, for this reason, the…