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…

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…