The developmental window covering the last year of pre-school and the beginning of primary school is an important period for observation and early identification of the predictors of specific learning difficulties. This identification process, through the use of specific screening, makes it possible…

The constant increase in students with disabilities and Specific Learning Disorders within Italian universities has contributed to the implementation of dedicated Tutoring Services and the establishment of specific actions, including peer tutoring, which plays a pivotal role in mediating the…

Museums play a vital role in safeguarding and preserving cultural heritage and providing educational experiences. However, people with visual impairment face significant challenges in trying to access and interact with museum exhibits. Currently, museums are dedicated to enhancing education and…

Neurodiversity pedagogy recognizes and enhances, on an educational level and from an inclusive perspective, individuals' different cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning modes, considering neurodiversity as a natural manifestation of human biodiversity. The general purpose of the…

Technological evolution and the use of advanced digital tools play a crucial role in various aspects of our daily lives. A significant example concerns their integration into the educational context, influencing the development of skills and teaching approaches. Recently, there has been a growing…

The presence of students with Complex Communicative Needs (BCC) in school requires educational-didactic measures aimed at enhancing the vicarious potential of the body and the use of assistive technologies which may support and facilitate communication, learning and social relationships. Thus,…

In Italian preschools, children with special educational needs are constantly increasing. If appropriate educational activities aren't proposed, children will not acquire the prerequisites that are essential to face successfully the teaching of reading and writing in elementary school. Currently,…

There is a international understanding that pupils with SLD, specifically with dyslexia, need effective teaching, not special/separate teaching, evidence informed. Given the text comprehension difficulties of Italian students, based on the Evidence Based Education (EBE) approach, the article…

Numerous studies published in the scientific literature, conducted in recent decades, have highlighted the difficulties in teaching and learning foreign languages, in pupils with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD). However, the provision of environments in which there is an active role of pupils with…

In the school, teachers are now familiar with the Ministerial Directive of December 27, 2012, which provides those who have a certification for DSA but also those who have school difficulties with access to a Personalized Learning Plan (PDP). However, there seems to be little knowledge in the school…

The implementing decree of Law 170 /2010 gives the national education system the task of drawing up Personalised Learning Plans (PDP), identifying appropriate educational and teaching strategies and assessment methods for students with Specific Learning Disorders, to ensure educational success and…

Including students with specific learning disorders (SLD) in the university environment is increasingly important. This study compares Italian and Spanish university lecturers' training on SLD and the teaching strategies for supporting students with SLD. A qualitative-quantitative approach was used…

This paper explores the fundamental contribution of scientific research in improving and informing instructional practice, with a focus on its application in heterogeneous classrooms. Through a critical review of the existing literature, the paper highlights how scientific research provides…

Following the enactment of Law 170/2010, Italian universities have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs). This exploratory study employed a mixed-methods approach to assess the use and perceived effectiveness of various educational…

Literature currently recognizes Universal Design for Learning as one of the most innovative approaches to inclusive education. The effort to translate these principles in music education are though occasional. The Esagramma Center has developed a theoretical and methodological approach to make the…

This research seeks to explore the relationship between intelligence and creative skills or creative thinking in students with SLD. The research wants to demonstrate if there is a relation between intelligence and the dimensions of thinking creative (Fluidity, Originality, Flexibility and…

In recent years the school has been called to review the teaching strategies and methodologies used up to that point to respond to the educational needs of pupils with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysorthography. The Law n. 170 of 2010 and the related guidelines have provided teachers with a series of…

This paper aims, through the analysis of some of the latest studies conducted, to highlight the correlations between the diagnosis of SLD and the presence of emotional, social and behavioral problems. Students with SLD, often show a reduced ability to adapt to the school and relational context,…

This contribution offers an opportunity to start reflecting on the use of comics as a useful resource for improving the pedagogical skills of teachers dealing with specific learning disorders (SLD). To this end, a literature review focusing on the transformative value of comics was conducted. The…

The contribution offers a systematic review of national and international scientific contributions published from 2010 to 2024 that examines support devices for facilitating the learning of students with disabilities and Specific Learning Disorders (DSA). In constructing the methodological…

Knowing how to manage one's own study and the ability to acquire an effective study method are the basis for achieving educational success for each student, in particular for students with Special Educational Needs. The role of the teacher becomes fundamental in developing methodologies and tools…

Support services for students with disabilities and specific learning disorders (SLD) refer to the services offered by higher education institutions to promote students’ inclusion and integration in academic life. Despite extensive studies on inclusion and accessibility, the knowledge of support…

The interaction between oral and written language develops in the Kindergarten through familiarization with books, adult reading, conversation and the formulation of hypotheses on the contents of the texts read, the acceptance of the first conjectures and the first practical attempts about the…

Recent studies indicate that students with specific learning disorders (dyslexia, dysorthography, etc.) often face particular barriers in learning foreign languages (Long et al., 2023; Tanabe, 2021; Danielli & Perrucci, 2020) that rely heavily on complex reading and decoding capabilities. For…

The article illustrates an experience exploring students' study skills, cognitive styles and emotional aspects in a classroom with Specific Learning Disorders (SLDs) to raise awareness and identify strategies to improve their learning process. The methodological approach combines quantitative and…

Are the strategies I use in reading workshops appropriate to the cognitive characteristics of the pupils? Can I keep the attention of children affected by attention deficit? During participatory reading, do I consider the emotional dimension of children who are affected by reading difficulties or…

Pepper and NAO are versatile and high-performance humanoid robots that prove to be ideal platforms for human-machine interaction, cognitive computing, and autonomous navigation. These robots are particularly effective in education, establishing empathetic connections with children and fostering the…

The theory of mind (ToM), which refers to the ability to attribute mental states such as beliefs, intentions, desires, emotions, and knowledge to oneself and others (Baron-Cohen, 1985), has sparked renewed interest in current pedagogical debate (Wang, 2015; Allen, 2013). Recent research has…

Although, on the one hand, advances in all fields of knowledge have improved people’s lives, however, the current era of hyper-complexity is not exempt from numerous problems, some of which affect teenagers, children and, consequently, even adults in their different roles and responsibilities.…

The international debate on school inclusion outlines the UDL framework as a virtuous approach for the development of teaching practices able to promote both the academic success of everyone and the participation of each in the construction of a new educational culture, which is oriented towards…

Today, school books present many multimedia elements. Enhancing the effectiveness of an inclusive educational curriculum implies assessing the characteristics of materials used in the classroom. In fact, both Italian school laws and scientific literature mention specific textual properties to meet…

The adoption of the transition from grading to a descriptive evaluation in primary schools, introduced by Ministerial Order 172 of 2020, represents a significant opportunity (Piscozzo & Stefanel, 2022) for teachers to reshape their assessment methods. The evaluation model proposed by current…

Typically, individuals enter the teaching profession after completing a well-established pathway of academic qualification. Research illustrates that, nowadays, an increasing number of teachers join the classrooms after spending time in different career backgrounds and after working within a prior…

In recent years, the use of technologies in sport has become the main focus of continuous evolutions. In exercise and sports sciences degree, seizing these evolutions could represent a significant opportunity to align teaching perspectives with the sociocultural evolution of sport training…

ECEC was instituted by Law n.65 of 2017 in Italy to respond to the European and National political and educational debate. This step marks a crucial moment for the early and secondary childhood education sector and for the definition of specific training paths for education professionals. One of the…

The paper presents the effectiveness of a coaching course carried out with sixteen teachers belonging to four schools in Palermo. The coaching process was launched starting from the hypothesis that enhancing the skills of middle management in educational institutions positively affects the overall…

The contribution examines the experience received by university students with respect to the territory. Meetings have been proposed with the actors of the social partners (Community managers and entities) who reported their direct experience in the educational field. The research will be conducted…

The multimedia nature of today’s expressive contexts and communicative languages has changed learning environments and youth training needs, dematerializing relational experiences. In May 2023, two professors from the SFBCT Department of the University of Macerata offered, to their students, a…

Pedagogical documentation can be a continuous research activity that commits the educator to eschew the usual and taken for granted practices (Wien, 2011), directing him/her towards the path of listening and observation to collect data that testify to the children's progress so as to make their…

The contribution presents an experience conducted in a secondary school following a careful rereading of the Institute Self-Evaluation Report (RAV) and a long analysis by the teaching staff regarding the frequent difficulties that many students encounter in the final period of studies relating to…

Feedback is one of the most important factors in supporting study and promoting academic achievement. Engagement and motivation are considered important dimensions of feedback recipience. In a Laboratory of Educational Technology of a blended master's degree, the teacher released digital written…

As part of a project on teacher professionalism, When I Teach questionnaire has been validated, aimed at exploring certain aspects of teaching and stimulating teachers and schools to reflect on them. The dimensions explored are Self-evaluation, Critical Awareness, Openness to Confrontation,…

This contribution explores the relationship between migration, marginalization, and educational planning within a migration reception program implemented in the city of Reggio Emilia. The project, in which one of the authors actively participates and which forms the basis of a seven-year thesis,…

Teachers play a key role in supporting equitable and quality education, as also advocated by the 2030 Agenda, leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes. To achieve this, they must develop themselves as transformative agents and change-makers, especially in a post-pandemic era. To this end,…

This contribution places within the historical nexus between popular scientists and educators in STEM disciplines. It investigates the identities of communicators, be they individual or collective entities, who garner attention from educators within the sphere of social media. The study contemplates…

This paper aims to investigate, with the help of an exploratory survey, the gap that exists between the moment a disability diagnosis is communicated and the subsequent state of isolation experienced in many cases by families, and thus the role that an accompanying educational pathway could play for…

The Listening, Orientation, and Support Desk is a socio-educational service aimed at promoting social inclusion and employment integration for Sub-Saharan migrants hosted at Casa Sankara. Casa Sankara is established in the Foggia region ten years ago, initiated by a small group of African migrants,…

In the Italian National teacher Training Plan (MIUR, 2016) a profile based on three main competences emerges: teaching, organization, and professionalism; acquired via individual and context level interventions. The latter has an impact on the didactic aspects in order to realize effective,…

Teacher leadership plays a crucial role in encouraging active engagement of teachers in guiding and sharing responsibilities, not only enhancing organizational effectiveness but also significantly shaping their professional growth. This paper aims to explore teachers' perception of obstacles,…

Skills enabling individuals to face life challenges are crucial in a rapidly changing world. The European Union promotes the LifeComp framework in a lifelong learning perspective. However, how can individuals learn to unlock their potential, to self-regulate and deal with complexity? To what degree…

Among many rights the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN, 2006) also guarantees the right to receive accessible information so that no one is excluded. Based on this principle, Inclusion Europe issued Guidelines in 2009 to ensure that information is written in a way that is…

The paper presents a workshop experience conducted at the University and aimed at deepening the analysis and perception of hate speech and violence. Hate speech often takes the form of manifestations directed towards more fragile individuals or entire social groups and conveyed through mainly…

Several meta-analyses and systematic literature reviews conducted in recent decades have demonstrated the effectiveness of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in acquiring communicative, linguistic and relational skills in students with complex communication needs (CCN), including those…

The paper aims to offer a reflection on the theme of welcoming the Different (in this case, the Foreigner who flees from war, the Refugee) and on the related dimensions of hospitality, care and integration, starting from the analysis of the qualitative data emerged in research on the management of…

The development of educators' professional skills is nowadays fundamental for designing, implementing and evaluating quality educational experiences in kindergartens. The contribution refers to the initial training course aimed at educators in the nurseries of the Municipality of Foligno and intends…

The school is made by a variety of times: the time of learning, the time of teaching, the time of the curriculum, the authentic time of learning, the times of differentiated teaching, but also the time of the school calendar and the canonical time of the minutes allotted to the class hour. Time can…

The paper presents the construction and psychometric property analysis of a questionnaire (TECNOVAL) developed to investigate in-service teachers’ beliefs about the value of digital technology in instruction. The study examined the instrument’s data properties, factor structure, and reliability…

The increase in social networking accounts among the young people of the Alpha generation draws the attention of educational institutions on the possible online misinformation on health prevention topics. It is well known by now how social networks can contribute to the identity construction of…

Drawing on studies in intercultural pedagogy, informal learning and the sociomaterial perspective, the paper presents the results of a qualitative research interested in investigating what types of learning emerge as a result of frequenting stores located in a highly multi-ethnic neighborhood of a…

This paper aims to provide a reflection on accessibility and continuity in education as key elements in supporting Integrated System implementation processes, leveraging the support of interprofessional pathways and fostering family participation. International research, reports and national laws…

This pilot study investigates whether olfactory stimulation, proposed during both learning and naps for children aged 2-3 years, can impact the consolidation of a mnemonic trace. Research demonstrates how sleep plays a central role in this process, and, in early childhood, promotes brain…

This article presents a literature review, encompassing a scoping review, and a narrative review within the broader context of game studies. Inside a project focused on Classcraft in Italian secondary school, the aim is to answer the research question: Are the students actually playing while they…

The contribution aims to present the initial results of a study that sought to investigate the potential of prison libraries, conceived as privileged space for designing educational interventions aimed at supporting inclusion pathways for incarcerated individuals. Through the collection and analysis…

The article examines the specific social and training needs of migrant women from the content analysis of 60 interviews carried out in Second Language (SL) schools in the city of Rome. The feminization of migratory flows has increasingly led us to reflect on the peculiarities of the experience of…

Are information able, to influence and condition the attitude of partecipation and civintenship? Does a relationship between fear and responsible and critical civic behaviours exist? 'Globalization facilitates the formation of real media empires, controlled by the aforementioned powerful entities or…

Sport activities are an important resource for promoting the education, well-being, and social inclusion of all children. However, children with disabilities participate in these activities less than their peers due to various physical and social barriers in their environment. A full understanding…

The EU documents emphasize how, for the development of effective policies and strategies for the modernization of higher education, both at the level of political accountability and at the level of individual higher education institutions (HEI), it is essential to develop a broad spectrum of data…

The aim of this article is to present those elements of assessment approaches that change as a consequence of a process of educational innovation. To this end, a multiple case study in which seven schools in Catalonia (Spain) that are implementing this innovation was carried out. The results…

The focus of the paper is an observational-descriptive study of three comprehensive schools in the Lombardy Region. It examines: the context in which teachers worked during the COVID-19 pandemic, their beliefs and practices regarding formative assessment, student learning and engagement during ERT,…

The year 2020 was a time of profound changes for elementary school support teachers, first with the d. interm. n. 182 and then with the O.M. n. 172, the latter introduced the descriptive assessment for each school discipline in place of the grade in tenths, in the periodic and final assessments of…

Vocational Education and Training (VET) aims to prepare young students for the labor market by jointly promoting vocational and transversal competences. Some of the most transversal ones, such as the Citizenship Competence (Council of the European Union, 2018), are particularly important in…

The paper reflects on satisfaction as an evaluative measure of perceived quality; in particular, on the satisfaction with the quality of the service on the part of the secondary school teachers who passed the extraordinary competition and followed the training course to acquire the 5 ECTS credits,…

The article examines a project carried out in collaboration with U.S.R. Toscana in the 2020-21 school year. The researchers designed three actions - research, training, consultancy - and analyzed 15 assessment practices in the context of the primary evaluation reform decreed by the O.M. 172/2020. A…

Assessment in HE literature states that alternative assessment approaches (Boud, 2010; Grion & Serbati, 2019; Sambell, McDowell & Montgomery, 2013) improve students' learning. At the national level, the debate on the topic is not yet widespread and the practices are predominantly…

The recognition of an active and co-responsible role of learners in assessment has grown in importance over time. In particular, the “assessment as learning” approach highlights how assessment processes contribute to the developing of learners’ competences and engagement. In recent years,…

The theme of assessment refers to a complex and multidimensional construct, in which epistemological assumptions, methodologies, tools and relational contexts converge. The present contribution intends to decline this reflection within the horizon of inclusive processes aimed at students with…

The theme of evaluation allows us to explore a reality continuously growing abroad, which is also quite widespread in Italy: the parental education. Unconventional educational experiences and traditional school paths find a common element in the evaluation of the outcomes. From our perspective, the…

The kindergarten teacher plays the role of educational guide capable of proposing learning paths that allow the children to discover himself, ensuring his centrality (Ellerani, 2013), and guaranteeing the discovery of others and of the surrounding world. Through movement, the child develops social…

The contribution deepens the evaluation practices with a specific focus on the induction phase of the newly hired teacher and the strategic function of training and peer observation activities carried out with the mentor teacher (Bleach, 2013; Magnoler, 2018; Fiorucci & Moretti, 2019, 2022). The…

This study explores the relationship between school climate variables and students’ resilience and social-emotional skills. Eight aspects of the school climate were examined, including Teacher Support for Learning, Teacher Support for Relationship Building, Social and Civic Learning, Social…

The contribution reported here aims to describe photovoice experimentation as an image-based didactic experience carried out in higher education. The multicultural change that characterizes the academic context, in which this pedagogical experience has been realized, is a challenge for professors,…

In primary school, pupils often use drawings to express themselves, but it is rare for these drawings to be used to evaluate educational experiences. A study in Verona, Italy used drawings to better understand the impact of Mixed Reality (MR) technology on heritage education for 132 fifth-grade…

This paper presents the results of an evaluation research project conducted at the University of Milano-Bicocca's Master's Degree Program in Teacher Education. The research used a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to: a) describe the changing socio-demographic and occupational profiles of…

Feedback is considered as a primary component in formative assessment, as well as one of the factors that has a great influence on student learning. The paper aims to illustrate and evaluate the results of an investigation in which the use of feedback, and in particular peer feedback, is promoted in…

Some research has shown that pedagogical postures and meaningful relationships between teachers and students oriented towards a highly inclusive evaluation process, because it is negotiated, participatory, and pedagogically based, can produce benefits in performance, in the involvement of the…

The issue of educational evaluation has long attracted the attention of stakeholders, engaging them in debates of a different nature (Scriven, 1991; Corsini, 2015). This contribution emphasizes comparative evaluation and the levels within which this takes place (OECD, 2013). The objective is to…

This paper presents the results of the monitoring of the activities implemented under measure 5 ("Extracurricular Internships") of the Youth Guarantee Programme, funded by Regione Campania and reserved specifically for undergraduates and graduates with disabilities under the age of 35. After…

In the school context, learning to understand the reason for an evaluation is certainly one of the most arduous challenges that students try to accomplish on a daily basis. The active guidance of teachers can effectively help in this continuous reflection that accompanies each person throughout…

Evaluation allows students to become aware of their own educational process with the acquisition of disciplinary contents and skills and competences connected to them; however, it is also an educational moment because it can guide students' attitudes, improving the subjects and contexts involved. In…

In the light of the indications and guidelines for the implementation of the PNRR measures (M4 C1) relating to Investment Area 1.6 'Active guidance towards school-university transition' and the indications provided by Ministerial Decree no. 934/2022, universities are called upon to implement 15-hour…

The migratory choice represents a planning action in the course of which various transition dimensions arise: spatial, emotional, cultural, social status, alphabetic, linguistic, professional, citizenship. The immigrant adult goes through a process of recontextualization of his personal and cultural…

Barriers and facilitators represent two substantial constructs for the design of an inclusive teaching aimed at students with Special Educational Needs, but they must be analyzed within an epistemo-logical framework that avoids a simple list of elements. This contribution illustrates the research…

Recent years have seen a change in the way pre-school children play and learn. In this regard, experts are increasingly questioning how effective the use of technologies is in educational and training contexts and how digital applications can facilitate the learning and development of young…

The paper presents the results of an exploratory research aimed at investigating various aspects related to the use of immersive virtual reality (IVR) in schools. In a high school computer lab, five students in a first-grade class participated in a lesson on the cardiovascular system while wearing…

This paper shows the early results of a Participatory Action-Research (PAR) in which University, School, and Third Sector of the city of Palermo dialogue with each other to design new educational systems’ architectures. Within the theoretical framework provided by Universal Design for Learning,…

Since the 1970s the Italian school has chosen the path of integration and inclusion of all male and female students, making difference its cornerstone. The education cannot but feed on diversity in order to be truly effective, in terms of building cultures and citizenship practices. In this…

Memes have become one of the most insidious tools for spreading online misinformation. Their power stems from their ability to create strong emotions using images accompanied by ironic or humorous jokes on a particular topic. Very often, they are based on stereotypes or cultural, social, or…

The paper concerns an observational-correlational research aimed at detecting the “profile” of conceptions about assessment of the aspiring secondary school teachers enrolled in PF24 provided by the University of Bologna. The research was initiated in A.Y. 2020/21 and continued in A.Y. 2021/22,…

The structuring of teachers' professional stance is a complex, dynamic, and collective process (Magnoler, 2017), influenced by various factors: initial and in-service training, beliefs within the school community (Lussi Borer et al., 2015), individual self-determination and intentionality, and…

Video production-based learning is widely recognised as a powerful strategy to engage students in meaningful learning in terms of disciplinary outcomes (Sablić et al., 2021), motivation (Carmichael et al., 2018) and collaborative skills (Hung et.al., 2004). The aim of the present study is to…