Culture is our heritage, made by the long chain of generations, and each of us is heir and caregiver of it. Everybody and the community can enjoy this heritage when an increasing number of citizens of all ages and backgrounds have access to it. The democratic states ideally grant this access, but…

In museums, the stratification of the realities of life and its historical process are preserved and ask to be understood. Every research grows by chasing the traces of the past, becoming a story in which we bring down the lived experience of our young people, giving birth in them the need to…

This contribution, examining the Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR), an emerging form of Assistive Technology that incorporates all robotic systems capable of providing assistance through social interaction (Feil-Seifer & Mataric, 2005), aims to initiate an organic reflection on the potential…

In the innovative climate of continuous experimentation in which we are involved, development should be regulated not only by technical-scientific disciplines but also by humanistic ones such as education, psychology, anthropology and philosophy in order to train scientists to program machines that…

The present article aims at providing an overview of the studies and research that, in the last years, have applied the principles of Affective Computing (Picard, 1995) to education, particularly in the supporting and developing of social and emotional competences in subjects with special…

Pattern of thinking have impacted the gender difference for a long time with the distribution of roles and different task depending on the gender. The attention for the physic nature, for the character and for the attitude of the men and women has product generalization, where models and stereotypes…

This contribution aims to illustrate the contents of a learning module titled “The Italian language in the changing school”, as part of a PON project in a primary school, which involved disciplines such as Italian and Geography and which had as its main objective the reduction of scholastic…

The scholastic spread and dispersion is a complex phenomenon that is extended to the entire education system. The international community has for a long time invested in addressing the human right that every child has at an education, which is, therefore, an inalienable right that is due to every…

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 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.

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…

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 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…

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,…

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…

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; -…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…