The educational inclusion of adult immigrants is a goal that requires the personalization of education and training paths, both in terms of supply and methodological approaches. In sub-Saharan Africa, school education is not always accessible to everyone, but a tradition of education and lifelong…

The paper examines the transformations that with the pandemic emergency (impact on quality of life) and technological evolution (cognitive overload) are introduced into teaching processes. Subject of analysis are the contextual and personal factors that can affect the learners’ propensity to…

In function of educational practice, aimed at supporting the individual in the complex development of personal growth, guidance is outlined as a continuous process of deconstruction and reconstruction of one’s existence in a form that is at the same time autopoietic (the individual is the author…

Among the social, economic and political contradictions of the post-war period that reverberate in Italian school education with the class structure of society, grades used for selective and judicial purposes, school dropout, etc., emerges the figure of Don Lorenzo Milani who saw the Italian school…

Early school leaving is a complex phenomenon that often appears as a combination of individual factors, personal history, and the cultural context. Moreover, this phenomenon impacts the individual's paths, choices, quality of life and the social and cultural capital of the country in which they…

Residential care experiences are heterogeneous, as well as educators’ practices and educational models of reference. Challenges faced by residential care to meet increasingly heterogenous emerging needs (Marchesini et al., 2019) and the need to act at systemic level, raises questions on…

Among the social, economic and political contradictions of the post-war period that reverberate in Pauline Kergomard, an active and committed personality from a social and political point of view, is a French pedagogist who articulated her educational reflection between 1800 and 1900 whose name is…

Western society is organised according to the so-called contractualist legislative model, i.e., all subjects act on the basis of benefits or sanctions resulting from their behaviour; this means that everyone chooses his or her behaviour according to the social role he or she plays and the utility of…

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…

To outline the characterizing traits of work as an aspect of human education, it is essential to cross the pedagogical reflection diachronically, underlining those plots on which the pedagogical discourse around work is based. Work, a word used to identify both actions related to fatigue and effort,…

Music is one of the main creative languages of our culture and, if proposed through an appropriate manner to the educational instances of each ages, it contributes to the harmonious and integral development of subjectivity. This present essay wants to reflect on the decisive role of music education…

Today it is not complex to detect a great fragmentation of the fields of experience, which translates into the diversity of languages and symbolic codes, and in the multiplicity of evaluation criteria with which one approaches the study of the surrounding reality. A fragmented situation, therefore,…

The assessment theme is capable of generating a reflection on complexity starting from the educational-curricular dimension. Over the years, the evaluation approach has expanded and modified its role, so that from the mere formulation of a judgment on learning, it has gradually arrived at 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…

A supporter of women's emancipation, Georges Hébert founded in 1918 “La Palestra”, a gymnastics school for women and children, considered the flagship of what was called “Méthode naturelle d'éducation physique, virile et morale”, a method that combined training of physical abilities,…

In this essay we consider the educational experiences for the childhood that had influenced a lot the past and they are typical of the present, which are a demonstration of a possible connection between tradition and innovation. Once we have discussed over the pedagogical thinking and the Ferrante…

Il titolo della presente Call manifesta una duplice intenzione: da una parte richiama l’attenzione sulle competenze e dall’altra vuole avviare un dialogo fra prospettive e letture disciplinari che pur nella loro specificità e diversità possono tracciare linee e direttive comuni. La finalità…

In questo numero della rivista QTimes - Journal of Education, Technology and Social Studies si propone uno spaccato del dibattito nazionale sulle competenze non cognitive. Il contenuto riportato in auge dal disegno di legge n. 2493 approvato alla Camera dei deputati l’11 gennaio 2022, afferma…

In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the so-called "non-cognitive skills" in relation to learning processes and the role they play in people's personal and professional lives. This led to the bill no. 2493 on the introduction of the development of non-cognitive skills in the…

Non-cognitive competences refer to thought patterns, personal traits, motivations and behaviors that are built and changed over the course of life in a continuous transformative learning process and have a positive effect on social life and career paths. The narrative biographical approach within…

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…

Starting from bill 2372/22, now in the Senato as Ddl 2493/22, the essay explores the link between non-cognitive competences and equity and social justice in education, thematizing the multiplicity of expressions referring to this domain of skills and attitudes and seeing in Philosophy for Children a…

The complexity of our time presents education with new challenges. Among these is that of youth discomfort, which risks halting young people's constitutive openness to the possible. Against this risk, education must become a moment of cultivation of cognitive and non-cognitive competencies that are…

The recognition and enhancement of the human represent the core of the social contract to which the Unesco report “Reimagining our Futures together: A new social Contract for Education” refers. The school of today, therefore, is called to realize what is foreseen in the report through new…

The current debate on the skills (soft, life, socio-emotional,… ), further revitalized by the draft law n. 2372/22, can be read as an expression of the need to raise – again – the question about which are the traits that allow us to recognize the human, such that it is. Without pretending to…

Human capital represents the most important resource available to countries for equitable and sustainable social and economic growth. For this reason, all states should commit themselves to pursuing policies aimed at guaranteeing universal and permanent access to the education and training system.…

Since the end of the XX century, the construct of competence has gained a central role in the redefinition of school system’s educational goals (Rychen & Salganik, 2001; EU-Lex, 2006; 2018; MIUR, 2010). However, according to the criticalities highlighted by recent national and international…

The aim of this contribution is to focus on the skin’s colour, a "mere" morphological characteristic, which has influenced and still influences the corruption of inter-human relations and, consequently, the formative paths of humanisation. Inside the multifaceted galaxies of racism, colourism - as…

The new educational emergencies, exacerbated by the pandemic situation, highlight the need for a pedagogy committed to building new possible paths of “social citizenship”, declined in its complexity and multidirectional: on the one hand as civicness, on the other as citizenship. The debate on…