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…

The dramatic chain died at work inevitably leads to a deep reflection and attracts more and more to the inevitable acceptance of responsibility and the necessary commitment and constructive synergy between the various actors in the world to launch a widespread information activities, that combined…

The main objective of the paper is to illustrate the theoretical and methodological construction of an experimental " app digital education " in some schools of the Municipality of Rome, with special attention to the analysis of the effects of the insertion of the digital input in teaching…

In terms of recent innovations affecting the Higher Education sector, two are generating significant interest: the creation and delivery of MOOCs as Open Education Resources, and the concept of the flipped classroom, a pedagogic approach whereby the roles of teacher and learner are inverted.…

The 2020 European strategy aims to a smart growth, through more effective investments in education, research and innovation fields. In particular, smart growth means improving the following areas of assistance: - education encouraging people to learn, study and update their skills; -…

This paper introduces the complex relationship among technology-school-society as framework of the discourses, processes and policies of the daily practices of schooling. Nowadays, we live in an interconnected digital ecosystem that represents a powerful architecture for user participation, posing…

To stimulate processes of change into the P.A., a precise and carefully explained reference is made today to the absolute importance for the public administrations of the promotion of know-how development by means of the creation, valorisation and sharing a common cultural meaning by the…

Trans-media is the new configuration of behavioral and cultural dynamics to transmit knowledge, tell stories, share ideas and experiences, promote diverse kinds of entertainment through more digital platforms. Hence, it is going to become a new form of social and cultural capital. The implications…

Despite a long history of research and debate, currently there is still no universally accepted definition of “creative intelligence”. The word “intelligence” derives from the Latin noun intelligentĭa, which comes from the verb intelligĕre. According to some specialists, intelligĕre is a…

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…

Bespoke school. Almost a paradox: a meticulous attention to detail - similar to what happens in an atelier - for a large number of beneficiaries, school students, for which a prêt-à-porter solution would seem the only alternative. Nevertheless, during the clash with the organizational level, a…

Today there is a widely shared view concerning the importance of the promotion of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in the educational area, thanks to the efforts undertaken by the European Community with the inception of the Bologna Process (1999) which assigns to ICT an important role…

From beginning of the new millennium the evolution and the widespread availability of telecommunication systems has allowed the birth of current information system and interconnection system (Internet) within which everybody can exchange information. Thanks to this fast developing today the online…

“To learn”, in the contemporaneous society, is even more an integrated and ubiquitous process (Schlemmer et alii, 2009). The learning processes are today frequently developed with in-distance methodologies, using digital technologies, social networks (Massarotto, 2011), simulations and…

In the twenty-first century italian universities are called to face up to new social and economic challenges, connected to the globalization, to the technological progress in production processes and the profound transformations of organizations. These developments affect the education system and…

The complexity of the educational process can be noticed in the facts and in the acts that make reality become plural and multiform and represents different contexts, experiences, stories, reflections, subjectivity and objectivity, universality and particularity. These aspects have to be understood…

For several years, web technologies are used in education not only in e-learning, but also as a form of Experiential Learning to be implemented in virtual contexts. Specifically, the student is advocated to confront the building of knowledge actually similar to that developed through the classroom…

It is now nearly four years since the so-called "year of the MOOC", 2012; and is good to return on an issue which remains still hot. In good conscience, the expected tsunami in higher education seems to turn into a case less "disruptive" than it was painted at the time, but certainly worthy of…

At an educational level, technology and the digital gap are indeed a moving target. On the one hand, it is commonly regarded as vital to have access to and participate in information society. On the other hand, the mutable nature of the field and its derived problems prompt educational systems to…

The relationship between the educational system, the world of work and the territory becomes strategic, since in the information and knowledge society to be able to field an effective local (glocal strategy), active policies in the field education, training and lifelong learning are presented as an…

The analysis of nowadays society, characterized by complexity, globalization and cosmopolitanism, detects the need for an educational process, characterized not only by being able to read and interpret these phenomena, but also to know how to learn, how to reason and essentially knowing how to think…

Problem Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional method by which students learn through simplified problem solving. Students work in collaborative groups to identify what they need to learn to solve a problem. This paper deals the nature of Problem Based Learning and examines as it helps students…

The contribution proposes a terminology and educational analysis of person, not as a biological being, but as a complex, emotional, happy, and resilient. So starting from the epistemological position of human beings, according to educational theories, the complexity of emotion and in synergy with…

The issue of safety is of crucial importance today because of the number of dead white. Occur annually in Italy over 1,000,000 work accidents, more than 1,200 deaths. The New Consolidated Safety at Work (Decree 81 of 2008) brings together in a single text much of the previous legislation on safety…

In today's technologically advanced scenarios the e-learning takes a strategic relevance due to expansion on networks. The present paper describes the evolution of e-learning in recent years thanks to the development of new media and describe the new version of the e-learning environments make…

This article discusses the enhancement of the environmental awareness, considered as an important step in the promotion of respect for human beings and for nature. Many aspects are important in this perspective: sensibility in comprehending problems, and caring thinking (Lipman) oriented towards…

Italian school is wondering about the changes to be introduced to improve the effectiveness of educational paths. These questions highlight the need to promote a culture of evaluation approaches by adopting new assessment on which to base educational decision-making processes in order to improve the…

This essay presents the analysis of the school dimensioning which has been realized through the vertical organization choice of “Istituto Comprensivo of the school ”Mommsen” in Rome. The objective of this reflection is to consider risks and chances laid ahead by dimensioning. Our intention is…

In order to study, teach and write the history of the XX Century the use of audiovisual sources is critically important. Documentaries and fictions are essential in the reconstruction of the economical, social, political and cultural dynamics of the XX Century. Indeed, cinema has been defined as the…

The diffusion of open education is well represented by the ever-increasing free availability on the web of open educational resources and practices, without any restrictions on their use and reuse. In this paper, after a brief introduction on related literature of Open learning, we’ll examine MOOC…

To ensure an equal and a quality education has become one of the key objectives of the European Commission’s strategic framework for cooperation in education and training (ET 2020). In this policy context, is important examines fundamental aspects of school and working conditions. Educators have…

Simulation games for learning geometry are learning environments purposely designed, and are being experimented within a research project, that has been demonstrating their effectiveness. They offer a different learning and teaching system, that opens interesting spaces to be explored relating the…

Report “The Good School” has achieved the goal of bringing the school of the future at the center of public debate. In this new scenario, to avoid launching too ambitious, threatening to fragment and disperse energy, it is possible to identify three strategic actions, towards which to direct all…

The didactic transposition transform disciplinary contents to define the curricula of the corresponding disciplines "of school", through a process with a sequence of almost linear knowledges logically and epistemologically organized in the written text of the programs and textbooks. In this paper,…

«Everyone – observes Herder – is a universe in which unknown inner strengths sleep in the shadow like kings never born». In our subjectivity there are great potentialities that we can not express during our life: these potentialities remains in the «dark side» of our shadow. According to…

The paper explores the topics of new media and their influence towards new forms of socialization that generate new knowledge and new learning ability. The new media have changed the relations between human beings in all areas of society, and this is because they are able, thanks to new forms of…

Today the use of technology is characteristic element of our lives, thanks to this our potential is significantly increased in every daily activity. With the use of Internet, for example, we have the ability to locate information in countless times much shorter. The advantages offered by the…

With the advent of the web, the way we produce and manage knowledge has been profoundly changed. This technological development makes available ever more versatile instruments that are able to access and manage increasing quantities of diversified information. It is important to observe these new…

"Organizations. Cultures, models, governance" is the recent volume of Antonio Cocozza, published by Franco Angeli, that develops an original and interdisciplinary approach to the study of organizations, through the history and the evolution of organizational paradigms and the analysis of the role…

A scuola di social media è un lavoro di ricerca teorico-empirica che si focalizza sul ruolo che l’istituzione educativa può e deve svolgere nella nuova società della rete che fa intravedere rinnovate configurazioni sociali attraverso cui la comunità può esprimersi. Il lavoro è indirizzato a…

Following this area of research, it is useful to mark the semantic link among knowledge, creative thinking and creative intuition. Creative intuition is an immediate cognition, perceptive «insight»: it is the act or faculty of knowing without the use of rational-logical processes. In this horizon,…

In the last years the professional development of the teachers has been considered an international and strategic field survey because it can be read both as instrument to reach quality standard increasingly, in terms of scholastic performance, both as means for the best educational offer in step…

Cooperation between family and school is an important factor in promoting students success in learning and person's overall formation. Due to this, it is necessary to promote reflection on the reasons often hinder the establishment of a constructive dialogue between these two educational agencies.

The concepts of learning outcomes and outcome-based education are relevant for qualification and quality system development. These notions have features in common with the instructional objective movement, very popular in the 1960s, but recently the focus of the scientific debate on education…

There-appropriation of meta-reflexive and narrative skills is a strategic imperative in order to be able to deal with awareness with the challenge of post-modernity , by getting used to rethink-ing one´s existential trajectories in the light of the past experiences and of the opportunities of the…

The social system is profoundly changed, producing important consequences both in the school, and in our "communities." The concept of community is polysemic and various, depending on the perspective from which we study it. So, this essay focuses on the nature of the school as educational community.…

Literacy is the word that we used to refer to competence’s set that include capacities to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. “Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to…

Negli allievi con DSA il rischio che il disturbo possa ripercuotersi sulla sfera affettive, oltre che su quella cognitiva, è una evenienza concreta. Altrettanto concreta è la probabilità che il bambino/ragazzo strutturi un’immagine di sé svalutante, trasferendo all’intera attività di studio…

La riflessione sui compiti educativi non può ignorare le trasformazioni in atto, cambiamenti che accomunano e avvicinano contenuti, metodi e linguaggi che concorrono a definire lo statuto epistemologico di ogni disciplina. Anche la pedagogia avverte la necessità di ridefinire costantemente i suoi…

The paper explores the topics of new media and their influence towards new forms of socialization that generate new knowledge and new learning ability. The new media have changed the relations between human beings in all areas of society, and this is because they are able, thanks to new forms of…

The process of school orientation is a central theme in our post-industrial society. There is an increased need to find new strategy to orient ourselves. In this way, the school and the persons engaged in orientation process must find articulated and complex strategies. In this paper we will try to…

La formazione viene riconosciuta come un bene primario poiché è di ausilio ai soggetti al fine di metterli nelle condizioni di saper governare i cambiamenti continui dominanti nell’attuale società della conoscenza in cui la competizione ha acquisito un elevato livello in tutti i campi, da…

The notion of education is linked to the acquisition of the alphabets needed to communicate, produce and be able to reflect on knowledge, but is also closely linked to the ability of each person to be able to combine, in a creative way, the alphabets acquired as well as to rework them in order to…

In contemporary time, the continuous research about a possible theory approach for helped the learning activity, and associable to the use of electronics technologies is frequently the focus of a educative researches and questions. Dewey whit your pragmatism has modeled the educational objects on…

L’apprendimento continuo, per tutta la vita, e il continuo bisogno di conoscenza diventano elementi essenziali per fronteggiare il continuo cambiamento che investe il contesto socio- economico e culturale tipico della “Società della conoscenza” (Lundvall, 1999). …

Il repentino sviluppo degli ultimi anni dei social network ha avuto come diretta conseguenza un cambiamento radicale delle modalità stesse di utilizzo della rete da parte di tutti coloro che in essa hanno riconosciuto un ambiente “da abitare” e che, nel corso del tempo hanno cercato strategie…

Portare a compimento con successo un percorso di apprendimento attraverso uno studio efficace, e per ciò stesso soddisfacente, è al tempo stesso un obiettivo, un'aspettativa e un desiderio di tutti gli attori che direttamente e indirettamente partecipano al processo d'istruzione e di formazione,…

Con l’avanzare prepotente della tecnologia, sia nelle abitudini quotidiane di vita, tanto quanto “nell’azione didattica” a scuola, sembra utile iniziare a parlare di un nuovo concetto: quello di “saggezza digitale”, proposto e corroborato nelle recenti ricerche dello studioso americano,…

Nell’affrontare la problematica relativa alle tecnologie dell’informazione e delle comunicazioni (TIC), è prioritariamente e scientificamente importante riuscire ad individuare, all’interno delle molteplici attività sviluppate in modalità e-learning, dei criteri guida e dei modelli…