Distance learning is a much-discussed topic; however, it has found more space in the debates than in the practical reality due to a mentality not inclined to change. Due to the crisis of the last few months, the topic has become decidedly more current since distance teaching has proved to be the…

Distance learning has "rained" on us. The first sensations are not positive, after all, simulating at a distance what is normally done in presence cannot be the solution. We are witnessing a revolution in the Teaching-Learning relationship, everyone will have to "redefine" the personal consolidated…

This work, based on an interdisciplinary literature, reflects on the metamorphosis of technologies in society and on the responses that the person give in different dimensions: social, professional and educational. After the latest events, the digitization process is no longer a choice, but becomes…

The educational experience its emotional implications the debate on educational and social professions, that in latest years has involved the academic world and the professional associations, led to an intense exchange of experiences and, more recently, made possibile to draw up a legislative…

The sanitary emergency due to Covid-19 has and will have a strong impact on all our systems (education, training and, obviously, guidance). With the massive and invasive dissemination of distance teaching, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of digital resources and related…

The paper examines the impact of web-mediated communication on teaching, with particular reference to the dematerialization of the learning environment. The educational environment is analyzed from the psycho-pedagogical point of view in its meaning of “place of training”, part of the didactic…

This contribution aims to highlight what kind of pedagogy the DaD is capable of conveying. Drawing lessons from the moment of crisis that the country is going through, we will focus on the policies and educational actions to be organized along theoretical lines in an interdisciplinary…

The study of the relationships between culture and technology, especially in light of media studies and mediology, shows that distinctions typical of common sense, which are not always rigorous from an epistemological point of view, continue to be used in the pedagogical field. The concrete forms of…

The word “Metacooperative Learning” refers to the methodology of Cooperative Learning together with the priciples of metacognitive didactics.. The author of the present contribution developed this approach in an exploratory survey regarding pre-school children in the years 2016 and 2017. The…

Il Volume “La didattica a distanza - Metodologie e tecnologie per la DaD e l'e-learning” (Emiliano Barbuto per Edises - ISBN9788836220922 - 29 mag. 2020) rappresenta il primo volume interamente dedicato alla Didattica a Distanza, in modo estensivo e onnicomprensivo. Racconta l’esperienza della…

In literature many studies have been investigated burnout on teachers (Johnson et al., 2005; Kyriacou, 2001) as an effect of stress linked to various negative consequences in relation to various factors (Bakker et al., 2004; Leiter et al., 2000; Wright et al., 1998). In the scientific field,…

The state of emergency caused by COVID-19 has forced the closure of non-essential production and commercial services and activities and all face-to-face educational and training activities. Workplace training has required more time - compared to schools and universities - to resume activities via…

The article presents a Collaborative Research path between teachers and researchers, based on the analysis of practices and their transformation. The focus has been placed on the concept of task, an instrumental artifact that, even in a virtual situation, is configured as: a space for the…

This research investigates and analyses the emotional, social, and relational responses and attitudes put in place by children in order to react to the health emergency caused by the spread of Covid-19. Moreover, this study aims to develop an educational intervention tool that can be available to…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Higher Education Institutions had to quickly shift from a traditional or blended approach to an online one and find solutions to foster students’ engagement and motivation. This paper aims to describe the pilot experience of an instructional methodology based on…

The measures aimed to contain the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) led to social distancing and limitation of exits also at didactic level. Physical movement has been drastically limited or interrupted, with important consequences on mental and physical well-being. It can thus have a negative…

The health crisis triggered by COVID-19 puts the right of students to obtain a fair and appropriate education under stress. The assumption that the suspension of physical activities may involve an impoverishment of educational growth inspired this study, The National Operative Programme (PON) tried…

The contribution presented aims to give an account of a specific university experience, responding to the need for micro level analysis and proposing to enter the "black box" of a "class" inhabited by 40 students of the Master's Degree Course in Pedagogical Sciences. It also aims to share the…

A university department of social sciences engaged in a collective reflection on the distance learning experience during the Covid-19 emergency. Before the university decided, it chose the way of pluralism of digital solutions in favor of the continuity of teaching. The article discusses the first…

This paper addresses the issue of evaluation in distance learning (in France they call it continuité pédagogique, an expression that clearly refers to a pedagogical and cultural implicit, that is not in the expression “distance learning”) by taking an exploratory approach centered on teachers'…

The article highlights the role taken by technological resources in the emergency situation that we are tackling, witnessing either the extraordinary formative performances or the relational skills developed by digital media. In particular, it is the educative system that constitutes an interesting…

DaD is not the simple reproduction of traditional teaching practices with virtual tools, it is a teaching that requires an innovative approach, as on the basis of social constructivism, it pursues the objective of creating learning situations in which the student can independently and responsibly…

The present transformations and challenges that Knowledge Society demands, as well as the main implications that Information and Communication Technologies have over higher education, universities and especially over professional development of teachers of this educational level, have a deep impact…

Le mappe concettuali vengono impiegate in maniera sempre più stabile e sistematica in tutti i settori in cui è importante e necessario gestire e rappresentare la conoscenza, di conseguenza anche in ambito didattico-formativo. La conoscenza rappresentata con le/nelle mappe concettuali è…

In the new scenery, digital skills are essential for the promotion of digital literacy, to facilitate and allow technological and social innovation, to increase digital inclusion and to respond to the needs of a society in constant and constant change. In this scenario, the research and action…

The contribution starts with a reconnaissance in the study of emotions, of which prevailing conceptions are declared. Interdisciplinary reading on the topic allows you to focus on the educational value of the emotions, in the human life and in the formal experiences.

Deprivation and inequities are key determinants of social exclusion and marginalization. An additional factor compounds the negative effects generated by deprivation and inequity: educational poverty. Although it has been largely overlooked both in theory and in practice, educational poverty…

Teachers’ digital competence is one of the key elements for tackling the many and new challenges found in today schools. For this reason, it is crucial to start a reflection on the concept of Digital Pedagogy, an approach that integrates technological competencies with a profound pedagogical…

The study presents a research aimed at monitoring and analysing, through Learning Analytics (LA), the main actions that students / trainees undertake online to reflect and respond to different training needs. The analysis, which emerged from a careful and systematic reading of the data, provided…

The paper presents the results of a research carried out by Indire in the field of work based learning. Focusing on the development of the competencies for the citizen and the worker of the future, we selected some experiences oriented to engaged the students in the develop innovative and creative…

The technological innovations linked to the expansion of digital technology to production, distribution and consumption processes, brought up contrasting visions regarding their effects on work. The possible benefits connected to them are not uniformly distributed among skilled/unskilled workers, in…

The first part of the essay analyses the importance of the audiovisual document for contemporary history and the educational and emotional function of documentary and fiction films in the teaching of 20th century history. The second part proposes a formative path with the use of the audiovisual…

Italian public opinion has become familiar with guaranteed minimum. Concerning this measure, the discussion has gained momentum once again during the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic with the proposal on the so-called quarantine income. The debate concerns the very idea of society, and therefore…

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.

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 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…

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…