The integrated system for early childhood education from 0 to 6 years, an educational ecosystem interconnected with the local area and its policies, aims to guarantee all children equal opportunities to develop their potential by strengthening alliances with families and networking with all…

To date, WHO estimates that more than one billion people need assistive technology, but that only 10% of them have access to it. The article aims to analyze the current model of territorial prosthe-tic assistance, highlighting all the epistemological-cultural and practical difficulties that the…

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…

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…

This article presents results from the first phase of an action research process conducted together with a group of secondary school teachers, with the aim of experimenting with actions that reduce educational risk and improve inclusion and participation in schools. The ‘Framework for…

The relevant increase in the number of female and male students with DSA enrolled in recent years has placed new demands on university teaching. The latter, is in fact, requested to increase its capacity to include, placing the person's potential at the centre of its pedagogical-didactic planning,…

Abstract: Culture, education, a correct language are elements to be able to guarantee a system of equal opportunities and inclusion of all. Men and women, Italian and non-Italian, high-functioning students and people with disabilities, all belonging to a world that must be increasingly welcoming and…

The issue of employment for people with disabilities, and in particular for young adults taking their first steps in the world through PCTO, has emerged within special education as fundamental to a broader conceptualisation that includes aspects of adulthood, self-construction, self-determination…

Serious Games are proving their suitability in business training and inclusion processes aimed at promoting and respecting all diversities. In fact, the main objective of this contribution is to investigate how serious games can facilitate the updating of employees, the individual and collective…

The article starts from some solicitations of Pope Francis regarding the urgency of a new ecological thought, which permeates culture and education tout court, and of a new vision of the human person that is characterized by its tension to recognize in the "other" a brother. In particular, it…

Italian State Schools abroad constantly face an important challenge: guiding their students to face academic and informational barriers to University entry, combining the spread of Italian Culture abroad with the potential and real possibilities students have to move and get grants and scholarships…

The studies carried out in the field of neurosciences, motor sciences and the consequent didactic applications have highlighted the need to start processes for the planning and organization of contents, organizational methods and methodologies in physical education and in introducing sports, to…

For many years the scientific literature, almost exclusively international, has questioned the potential that Artificial Intelligence has in Education, in favoring the processes of inclusion and in modifying learning environments in an inclusive direction. Experiences of educational robotics…

This paper aims at building a state-of-the art pedagogical strategies to adopt in primary school to promote the inclusion of pupils from migration backgrounds, according to an intercultural approach. This framework, in fact, is currently missing, despite a flourishing scientific production in this…

As systemic organization which interacts with the external environment (Weik, 1976), the school has to provide suitable solutions for the multiple challenges of the context, in order to reach a quality education for all and each one. Considering it and the feature of the school as organization based…

In today's hyper-connected society, the implications of developing one's own identity, experience and collective memory are influenced by algorithms. Everything is interconnected between real and virtual World. In this panorama there is also the world of school and training that has had to adapt,…

Digital skills currently play a fundamental epidiptic role in the ability of education systems to renew themselves and actively project future generations into an increasingly medial anthropic reality within a process of evolution which globally affects the whole of society. The multifaceted…

The recent development of eSports raised a number of ethical, philosophical, and pedagogical questions, building a new and lively interdisciplinary debate. Hence, this paper aims to offer a general overview of the topic, focusing firstly on the controversial definition of electronic sports and the…

Since 2020, the sanitary emergency conditions caused by the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic have dramatically and shockingly spilled over the entire globe. This has affected and still affects every aspect of human living, including education. The structural change in school organization, committed…

Recent legal reference (Art. 103 of the Italian Budget Law for 2022) has induced Italian educational authorities to consider Motor and Sports Sciences graduates as prospective Italian Primary School teachers from 2022/2023 onwards. This provision finally puts an end to the long-standing dilemma…

Italian state schools abroad are facing a new challenge: to take the concept of inclusion of students with special education needs out of the national territory to better promote the spread of Italian culture and a solid culture of inclusion and acceptance. This study, through the special…

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…

The pandemic emergency of recent years, followed by the international conflicts between East and West, have materialized the concerns of the general public, beginning with those of children. The shock of a health, human and nuclear catastrophe has also entered the classroom, driven by the…

The concept of resilience describes the ability to resist and cope with the destructive challenges that life sometimes imposes, a process that involves dynamic aspects that support, encourage and promote the ability to struggle, overcome obstacles, alongside biological determinants, caregivers…

Since the Guidelines for school integration, it is made explicit that the life project is an integral part of the IEP (Individualized Education Plan) and “concerns the personal and social growth of student with disabilities” (MIUR Guidelines, 2009). The connection between IEP and life project is…

The divergent conceptions of disability (medical model/social model) have made it difficult to grasp the innovative scope of the new models for inclusiveness adopted by the school system. The new PEI models represent a considerable opportunity for change in view of overcoming the reductive logic of…

From an ICF perspective, observing facilitators and barriers is a fundamental step in building inclusive school settings. This article proposes a model of analysis and documentation, based on general levels (the school, organization, resources and services) and specific levels (the classroom,…

This contribution aims to highlight how the perspective of inclusion and, consequently, the educational and didactic planning will have to evolve thanks to the new PEI in a line of humanisation and special attention to the "different" person. For this reason, the role of Pedagogy, faced with deep…

Today, schools are being asked to respond to increasingly pressing and complex emergencies wi-thin the education sphere, and are thus having to re-examine their role as cultural, social and edu-cational agents as far as inclusion is concerned. Often, inclusion is nothing more than a series of…

The article offers a theoretical reflection that focuses on the Individualised Educational Project as a personalised and participatory planning device for emancipation. The topic is the exit from the education cycle and the perspective of the transition to adulthood of young people with…

The recent debate regarding the new IEP model based on ICF and on Tar sentence n. 975/21 has opened new perspectives for the research highlighting the need to rediscuss and modular again the documentation and inclusive processes regarding the scholastic environment. The purpose of the present essay…

This paper presents the results of a survey conducted with a sample of teachers attending the specialization course for special education teachers of the University of Florence, with teaching experience with pupils with autism, who participated in the administration of a questionnaire developed by…

In order to guide the teachers in the dialogue with the bio-psycho-social perspective in articulated training planning for the benefit of the pupil with disabilities, the working group of the Center on New Technologies for Disability and Inclusion (CNTHI) of the University of Salento, in June 2020,…

This paper intends to reflect on the relationship between disability, life project, adulthood and educational orientation in schools. On the basis of a qualitative analysis of the interviews with privileged witnesses, it highlights the critical aspects and the potentialities of educational project.…

The training of competent professionals, who in their role as general or specialized teachers, support pupils in the development of their affective-relational, cognitive and communication skills, as well as in the acquisition of autonomy, is an essential factor for the design and the management of…

The new Italian legislation, in terms of inclusion, highlight the principle of self-determination and the necessity of active involvement of students with disability in their educational path. The purpose of the present essay is to define the possible strategies useful to promote the participation…

This paper describes a reflection on an experience carried out as part of a direct internship in the support specialization course at the University of Sassari. Serious Games (SG) activate gamification dynamics, develop skills and competences transferable in the real world, convey educational…

The objective of this article is to identify the indispensable and qualifying element of inclusive practices, long in the educational and scholastic vocabulary, but made dramatically prioritized by the pandemic: the inclusive attitude of the teacher. This objective requires the rethinking and…

This article describes the results of a research that involved 814 school operators on the inclusive processes activated in the school during the lockdown. The survey, conducted through the administration of a questionnaire, was aimed at understanding if and how much DaD has succeeded in ensuring…

Educational courses must be inclusive, so as to allow anyone, regardless of personal skills and needs, to complete them profitably. To achieve true inclusion it is necessary that both technological tools and teaching contents are accessible, that is, usable by everyone. But that's not enough:…

Maker Education is a cultural movement that is spreading in the educational field and that can offer significant opportunities to students in conditions of social, economic and cultural disadvantage. However, embracing the maker education movement and spreading this approach in schools and centres…

The contribution presents a reflection, based on research, on the theme of guidance and enhancing the competences of foreign students in the CPIA (Center for adult education). Access to education of migrants requires methods suitable for promoting an effective inclusion process. The CPIA are the…

How can we develop training courses through distance teaching ensuring same learning opportunities for all students taking into account different forms of communication and a plurality of educational mediators (Damiano,1999)? Starting from the recent and fruitful assumption that teaching is design…

The national health emergency, caused by the spread of Covid-19, involved the school system and required an effort to the school-family alliance and to institutions in order to promote e-learning. The paper describes strategies adopted to reschedule an educational project for primary schools,…

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 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,…