This article describes an educational project based on a collaborative simulation game designed to promote understanding a text as an essential first stage in developing summarizing skills for primary school pupils. The game has been developed and tested as part of a research project, which includes…

Strong of the idea that the application of the intersectional construct (Crenshaw, 1989; 1991; Hill Collins, 2019) can have important repercussions on the educational paths of all those who inhabit school contexts (De Castro, Guerini & Straniero, 2022; De Castro, 2023; Migliarini & Elder,…

The paper intends to propose a reflection about the kind of university training to provide to educa-tion professionals, now more necessary than ever. This considering the social complexity that is affecting the whole Europe and that makes increasingly worrying the working environment of these…

Bertin's works on ethics, the phenomenology of commitment, problematicism and the rational personality helps to clarifying how the charisma of the educator must never cross over into the abuse of irrationality. In the specific case we want to try to re-read Jean Vanier's message, identifying the…

“Passing” is realised in being able to be considered as belonging to a social and relational category different from the one imposed, generally, by birth. This passing, in situations of extreme racial abuse, is necessary to survive; in most cases, it is motivated by obtaining a better quality of…

In the Autumn of 2021, the Italian Regional School Office (USR) for Sicily launched the Insieme project with the aim of supporting schools and teachers in the development of learning environments and inclusive teaching strategies and to systematize groups and practices for self-evaluation of…

In this paper the author analyzes an hypothesis to define an educational project for a school as an educational community to promote the inclusive democracy. In this perspective the author focuses a new possible Agreement of the Educational Co-responsibility and the importance of the role of the…

Over the past fifteen years, the subject of the pedagogical and technological renewal of higher education has received increasing attention. When appropriately introduced in education, technologies offer new opportunities for the improvement of teaching and learning. Recently, an area of particular…

Starting from the original suggestions offered by the thought of bell hooks, we intend to decline some of the concepts of the author within the framework of the pedagogy of inclusion. The post-Covid condition has left us a school profile, unbalanced digital training, which needs to be reviewed by an…

In the current educational context, characterized by school autonomy, the importance attributed to evaluation is growing; hence the need to identify ways of structuring learning paths capable of improving the outcomes of project interventions. The centrality of a reflection that interests the…

Intelligent personal assistants, conversational agents that can dialogue with humans through speech, have quickly entered the homes of people around the world, as smart speakers. Thanks to the use of the voice channel instead of the visual/tactile one, they allow people to perform many hands-free…

The intention of this contribution is to discuss the types of social aid organizations. The reflection aims to identify to what extent a pedagogical approach centered on the person and equipped with the most up-to-date educational reflections can create a quality training system in the helping…

The French intellectual Michel Foucault describes how the concept of madness has developed over time and how it has integrated into the social and pedagogical order of Western society, transforming the person into an excluded individual deprived of his freedom. He dealt with the development of…

The policies of educational systems, as the driving force behind indications, real measures and concrete practices, are the space by means of school integration can be investigated, though it is not the only one. In this sense, it seems interesting to refer to international policies in the field of…

The article proposes a reflection on the assessment of technology-mediated museum education, with particular reference to serious games, virtual ludic simulations with educational and training purposes which, using digital devices, reproduce real situations and experiences. The introduction of…

In the first part of this work we focused on the main protagonists of the behaviorist movement (until the 1950s) in order to highlight its most significant aspects. In the second part of this work, however, we will focus on the early methodological models prompted by the main scholars of behavioral…