The article presents the theoretical-conceptual framework of an empirical research. It aims to examine the conceptions that a non-probabilistic sample of future teachers, in training, have about assessment: for example, the assessment of the learning product with reporting purposes is considered…
The multi-perspective dimension of the ecological transition finds a pivotal point in education for the necessary transformative shift toward a new contextual generative humanism, of thought and culture, in harmony with Mother Earth. This contribution argues that ecomuseums emerge a) as a new…
The paper offers reflections on the survey and analysis of inclusive, agentive and participatory practices at school. In this sense, the RiPIAC tool is presented, which was developed and tested within the framework of the doctoral research Figure system mediators crucial to inclusive processes at…
The relics of bishop Nicholas, transferred from Myra to Bari in 1087, brought with them a religious and, above all, pedagogical value model that was decisive in defining the sense of community; this identity platform then crossed the ocean contributing to the founding of New York. From the same…
Over the last decade, because of catastrophic events planetary and other circumscribed but that globalization makes such, young people have assumed an emotional appearance mestiziforica, syncratic neologism formed by two antithetical emotions: sadness and euphoria. The signs of the new youthful…
In 2001 the World Health Organisation adopted the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health. Then in 2009 the United Nations ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This was a genuine revolution in interpretative categories, norms and language.…
The formulation of the professional life project makes a fundamental contribution to the formation of young people’s identity, since it implies a constant confrontation between the realism of the world of work and the image that young people have of themselves. The most recent Guidelines for…
In the wake of the Pedagogy of the Environment, which assumes sustainability as an interpretative-regulatory presupposition of human education, in order to educate to have regard for human relationships and with nature, direct encounters with works of art and places emblematic of a territory holds a…
The ability to project education and its nature seems to be more a fantasy game rather than a pedagogical necessity. Looking beyond the present or the near future, heading towards that horizon of aconian memory, appears a planning necessity and a real social requirement. The need to determine and to…
In the context of Agenda 2030 and within the debate opened by intercultural and decolonial education studies, the article aims to critically discuss the phenomenon of migration through the perspective of Global Education, by deconstructing dominant power relations and divisive narratives and…
The digital transition, accompanied by the growing demand for specific skills and flexible, personalised learning methods, is redefining the approach to continuing training. A renewed paradigm that has a concrete application in the dematerialisation and digitalisation of administrative,…
The contribution intends to focus attention on the inexhaustible wealth of pedagogical stimuli that have arisen from the work of Janusz Korczak, offering some points for reflection on the conception of childhood based on respect for the child’s identity and full recognition of the centrality of…
Caring and loving, in a dynamic of motivation and support aimed at the well-being of the person, are just some of the ingredients that in today’s time characterize the helping relationship. The school world, as the main and variable context, becomes a dialogical gymnasium that opens to new and…
Epochal change that we are going through sees, among other things, the progressive and widespread diffusion of digital technology, the presence – increasingly pervasive – of mobile and touch devices made accessible also to pre-school boys and girls. More and more often, small hands and small…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as the future of humanity and often optimistically equated with a "new industrial revolution," with the idea of an algorithm influencing intimate aspects of our lives spreading. This perspective, while seeming utopian, is an everyday reality in which…
From early childhood, children begin to explore and interact with the physical environment, gradually improving their spatial skills. Understanding how this process occurs is essential for teachers because they can effectively support the development of these skills in the educational context.…
Art education promotes, encourages and enhances the construction of knowledge based on senses, empathy, creativity, understanding and contamination. It creates spaces of mediation in which diversity is no perceived as a problem but as a value, that should be preserved and promoted. Due to these…
Educational poverty is considered a multidimensional concept that goes beyond the mere lack of economic resources, including elements such as access to educational opportunities, the quality of education received and support. However, the lack of a sufficiently shared definition, which can operate…
This theoretical-conceptual paper aims to highlight the pedagogical potential of Matthew Lipman’s community philosophical practice for the education of complex thinking by elaborating its links with Gianni Rodari’s pedagogy. The analysis refers to four thematic cores: (1) narrative as a…
This paper intends to propose a critical-comparative reading of the main policy measures in the field of innovation in the organization of Public Education and Training Systems in EU countries, as implementation of the NGEU, which allocates significant resources to the innovation of Public…
The dimensions of body and “presence” are decisive in the educational relation, both for students and teachers, allow to understand and manage the unpredictability of the situations, enhance engagement and motivation, contribute to educational success and didactic innovation. The paper…
Lo scopo di questo numero, senza alcuna pretesa di esaustività, è quello di affrontare il problema della valutazione in maniera multifocale e multiprospettica, guardando ai risultati della ricerca teorica, epistemologica, metodologica ed esperienziale più avanzata in ambito educativo e…
The promotion of learning and education well-being are two closely related factors; several studies have shown that students who experience greater emotional well-being are more likely to achieve scholastic success; conversely, those who experience greater emotional difficulties are likely to have…
According to Scriven (2000), evaluation is “the process through which the value, merit, or significance of some entity are determined” (p. 39). In line with this definition, the paper talks about the quality evaluation of the Italian school system carried out, at the national level, through the…
The contribution analyses evaluation methodologies and innovative measurement tools, used in the academic field with the support of digital tools for teaching and classifiable under the name of e-learning. The use of digital technologies in evaluation processes allows us to analyse not only…
This paper aims to explore the utility of the Economic, Social, and Cultural Status Indicator (ESCS) as a dynamic and informative measure for promoting educational equity. Beginning with an examination of its components (HISEI, PARED, and HOMEPOS), emphasis is placed on how the ESCS can contribute…
Often the end of a project manifests itself in the form of an evaluation. Where there is no learning to be certified, it takes the form of a satisfaction questionnaire or a final discussion. By presenting a thematization on evaluation in schools, starting from the perspective of general and social…
Assessment of learning is an indispensable part of any deliberate educational activity. This also applies in the case of disabilities. For this reason, it is important to stress that every, even those with severe disabilities, and their families have the right to be assessed according to the results…
The goal of this paper is to highlight the role of assessment today, analyzing it within educational contexts based on self-directed learning. In addition, the role of new technologies will be emphasized, highlighting how the high level of technologization we are experiencing allows for a twofold…
Through 3 different case studies, this article reflects on past experiences of teaching and on different interpretations of the meaning of the word evaluation in today’s changing educational sphere. Here, evaluation comes to comprise the entire experience in the classroom, from the abilities…
The School 4.0 Plan, promoter of a learning ecosystem formed by the intersection of physical spaces, schedules, activities, tools and human interactions, places a tangible space alongside a non-place produced by the society of surmodernity. The article, building on M. Scriven's (1991) reflection in…
In the framework of didactic-educational design, assessment, considered in its constructive function of the formative process (Scriven, 1967), can activate forms of complex cognitive interaction between teacher and student (Trinchero, 2023) and generate feedback useful for forms of…
The complexity of evaluation as a didactic operation must also deal with national regulations and supranational indications that somehow direct the evaluation processes. In the Italian school context, a particular case is represented by the teaching of the Catholic religion, which among the…
The paper focuses on the topic of evaluation in the Italian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system, within the framework of the national integrated education and training system, from birth to six years. Starting from an overview of evaluation as promoted in the key documents of the…
The introduction of transversal teaching of civic education in schools has the purpose of preparing the new generations to insert themselves in the social context in an active and productive way. The city is not just a place to live but a pedagogical object, a laboratory space, a context of dialogue…
While connecting young people with the contemporary media we often focus on the risks of the network and the need to educate minors to the digital thanks to the work of teachers and educators; not always the know-how of those who play an educational role is adequate to the task, by means of…
Some recent documents on happiness and well-being among citizens are the starting point for a reflection on the inter-human relationships; these are explored in this contribution in order to draw attention to some words, to give shape and content to a "language of care". Indeed, it is precisely in…
In Italy, during the Fascist period, political confinement was added to the common confinement intended to exclude the opponents of the regime from civil society, relegating them to inaccessible places with almost no communication routes. Among these localities is Ventotene, a small island in the…
The objective of school educational assistance is to improve the learning and socialization processes of the pupils with disabilities by working on complex autonomies and intervening in an inclusive perspective. According to the law 104/1992, the management of the service belongs to the local…
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…
In recent years, the concept of the “learning city” has acquired great relevance in the pedagogical debate, which has focused above all on the possibility of combining efforts aimed at expanding educational opportunities in a lifelong and lifewide learning perspective with the instances of…
Video analysis, understood as a device for teacher training, has progressively adapted its tools to technological innovations: from analogical Microteaching to digital Videoannotation up to the current enhancement made possible by their integration into Artificial Intelligence systems. What tools…
The metaverse, a participatory and shared three-dimensional space, the result of multiple technological elements including video, virtual reality and augmented reality, proposes an ad hoc learning context in which direct interaction with the contents offers the opportunity to experience a more…
In order to consider desire as a main category of contemporary Italian pedagogy, Education cannot be divorced from hegemony in terms of a “pedagogical relationship”. Inheriting the Gramscian instances, Pasolini builds a “pedagogy of desire” because the poetry is the magic key that creates…
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education is becoming increasingly important in today's society, as technology continues to advance and shape our world. However, effective STEM pedagogy requires more than just teaching these subjects in isolation. It involves creating a…
Il “serious game” (SG), concetto apparentemente ossimorico, rimanda ad un’attività seria in un contesto di gioco, senza finalità di intrattenimento. Si tratta, quindi, di un gioco “in cui l’educazione (nelle sue varie forme) è l’obiettivo principale piuttosto che…
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) methodology was born in the 1990s within the LEGO® Group to (re)-innovate managerial practices and has over time undergone significant development in various sectors including education, supported by constructivist learning theories. It affirms itself among the…
The serious game (SG) underlies the concept of edutainment, a type of game that aims to educate by entertaining. The effectiveness of such a tool is especially revealed when applied to the museum environment as promoting innovative forms of entertainment helps to attract new categories of users,…
The spread of technologies, of the growing human-machine interaction, of the culture of simulation and, in particular, of video games has led to the definition of a new anthropological model, the Homo Game, in which the playful dimension, increasingly linked to the technological one, has become…
The intercultural education of teachers and the design of training courses from an inclusive perspective is an important issue in order to foster experiences of encountering difference and affirming the ethical principles of otherness and democratic dialogue within schools. In this context, it is…
This is water is the commencement speech with which David Foster Wallace greeted undergraduates at Kenyon College in Gambier in 2005. It is an insightful speech. It shows on a literary level the dynamic through which biopolitical dispositifs exert their pervasive and ubiquitous power over human…
Learning can be fostered by technologies through devices aimed at embedded exploration of physical and digital spaces, which provide for the immersion and involvement of users in transformative experiences also based on play. The paper reflects on the relations between learning and game and the…
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…
The basis of a sustainable training path is the analysis of certain factors and the passing of certain stages that enable it to be predictive. The effectiveness of training design, in fact, depends, in large part, on a subject's ability to invest in one’s talent, to consider the resources…
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…
Play and work are realities that, within a society strongly striving for productivity, are often placed on two distinct planes, in opposition to each other: acknowledging the centrality of play as a space for adult character formation (Bondioli, 1996), play nevertheless seems to be a "waste of time"…
Online hate speech is receiving more and more attention in the present society as a great concern: this phenomenon is rapidly increasing, mainly through the widespread use of social media that expose young people to dangerous content. This makes it urgent to define an integrated and…
The health emergency caused by Covid-19 and the drastic interruption of face to face school activities have emphasized the importance of school-family relationship, as a guarantee of educational continuity especially in the weakest age groups. Distance Learning, first, and Integrated Digital…
The pandemic situation has drastically reduced the opportunities for movement and socialization of children even in the school environment, forcing them to carry out remote lessons, distance learning and digitally augmented education. Therefore, we will propose the method of active breaks or active…
The aim of this work is to valorising the transformative potential of engaged pedagogy (hooks, 2020; Freire 1970, Bianchi, 2019), through situated research, which has as its field of reference the School of Fight 8x5 in Prato, in which the researcher is absorbed. In this way, we want to give back…
The glut of information triggered by the network’s devices (intentional or not) risks limiting or preventing the rational procedures that allow their reliability to be verified. We are witnessing a crisis of critical-reflexive skills (Davies, 2019) whose history would be too challenging to…
In music modulation is a tonal shift, without interruption, of musical discourse. Modulations, as passages and transitions, characterise adolescence in all dimensions of the subject, involving voice, body, emotions and thought. In this essay, the musical metaphor of modulation is adopted to…
Affectivity and emotions are central to sociological reflection, especially if applied to the bullying (Olweus, 1996; Chiarugi, Anichini, 2012) and cyberbullying (Civita, 2006; 2022) study. These are complex social phenomena that, among many variables, are characterized by “gender” (Perasso,…
Italian Constitution assigns school a key role for social justice: assuming equity as a horizon of pedagogical meaning is essential. However, old and new inequalities weigh on students’ educational paths, generating iniquity. In this context, Antonio Gramsci’s thought on school is an important…
This contribution aims to understand the new forms of “ecological citizenship” (LS, 211) practised by generational 'cohorts' within a society characterised by crisis and abrupt changes. The ecological challenge matches the intergenerational dimension, relating Gen Z (Twenge, 2018) and adults…
The collaboration between neuroscience and pedagogy is today more fundamental than ever to understand what happens at the neuronal level when the subject learns, builds and organizes his own knowledge to elaborate a creative response and identify a solution to a problem. The studies conducted by…
Education and schooling represented for fascism, through indoctrination, one of the privileged strategies for obtaining the consent and mobilization of the entire Italian population, which was somehow brought to homologation with the prevailing principles and ideologies. But fascism cannot only be…
The topic of teaching professionalism has long been at the centre of the educational and training agendas of the various countries. How such expertise is recognised, supported, and promoted depends on the political, economic, and cultural background of each of them. The debate on the “expert…
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…
The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic has created a significant revolution in the way emotions are expressed, stress management, interpersonal relationships and lifestyle. Most affected has been schools where stress levels, in particular, in students and teachers have risen. In such a scenario - taking into…
Establishing a common framework for quality assurance (QA) in Europe is a pillar of the Bologna Process to strengthen the quality of teaching and learning in higher education (HE). QA rules have been implemented in Italy with diverse structures and timeframes between Universities and Higher…
Complex communication needs (CCN) in school settings may hinder the participation of student with Autism Spectrum Disorder also affecting their quality of life, relationships and learning process. For this reason, it seems appropriate to promote a Didactics that pay attention to student’s…
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…
Daily experiences are achieved by remaining connected to digital environments, in a dimension defined as onlife. To date, in fact, "virtual" environments and "real" environments can no longer be considered distinct "places", both representative of learning contexts where people, especially young…
The “generation Z” is the one that, since its birth, has had access to the Internet and social network: Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok are the "daily diet" of this generation. The rhetoric of digital natives according to which young people have different learning and information processing…
How neuroscientific research can help educational sciences and education and understand cognitive pro-cesses is the challenge of those involved in educational neuroscience. Neuroscience seems to be an invisible matrix of other sciences and practices, and it is easy to be tempted to fall into a…
After a long regulatory process, the educational offer of motor and sports education in the Italian primary school is enriched, thanks to the inclusion of the Sport Sciences specialized teacher with the intention of enhancing corporeity in its multiple expressions as a personal right and cognitive…
Initial training has often changed and changed without a vision and objective that could meet contemporary challenges. In fact the quality of teacher training cannot be separated from the overall school policy of a country. If school does not become one of the basic concerns of national policy,…
This paper intends to analyze from a pedagogical point of view the relationship between Digital Natives and technologies in order to investigate how the new digital devices enter into relationship with the socialization processes and the evolutionary dynamics of the adolescent, and how they…
The article wants to describe a training to teachers of middle and high school about inclusive didactic applied on use of technologies. In the article will be presented the four modules that they characterized the course and they led teachers to acquire specific knowledges: (1) interconnections…
The paper aims to analyse a being facing and a being in relationship by listening to the other basic element for communication and educational methods that can outline an approach to knowledge that takes into account the learning processes as result of communicative relationships. This takes the…
Childhood is a cultural construction, and it is within a certain way of representing childhood that children experience and learn to relate to the context of reference; in some cases, the context, the culture to which they belong, and their families appear inadequately supportive, indeed harmful and…
The paper aims to investigate the relationship between learning processes and attachment systems in an integrated and multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the analysis will focus on the question, still not much debated in the scientific field, of the complex system of interrelationships…
In the 1960s, within the framework of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham, a number of scholars, linked by their interest in popular culture, not only denounced the industrial logic that transforms content into products, but were also in search of the…
Il periodo post-pandemico ha lasciato aperte questioni importanti e ineludibili che interessano la scuola e l’educazione in generale e che interrogano tutti coloro che si occupano di insegnamento-apprendimento sulla necessità di vivere un’esperienza scolastica e didattica di qualità, capace di…
Questo numero della rivista QTimes - Journal of Education, Technology and Social Studies si propone di contribuire a un costruttivo dialogo tra i ricercatori per comporre un’indagine critica, multilivello e interdisciplinare sui divari nella competenza digitale, fornendo uno spazio in cui…
In the educational context, technology is increasingly perceived as a key element of great educational renewal. For this reason, its use must be versatile and dynamic and adapt to various factors such as the teacher, the specific level of education, the characterising elements of the discipline, the…
Due to the immersive and pervasive nature of technology and connectivity, digital skills are constantly evolving. It’s a stratified, immanent and historical knowledge, not limitated to technical skills only. It touches on the cultural, economic and political citizenship dimensions as well as the…
With the pandemic period, the generation of data has grown exponentially and in order to ensure that it can be accessed and read by citizens and future generations, new communication methods are emerging, which are immediate and easy to interpret, without the need for specialised skills. Through the…
In the wake of media education and research in the field of experimental pedagogy, this paper traces the regulatory stages, theories and empirical applications that are involved in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), with a focus on the inclusion of these tools in the educational…
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the conceptual framework of Universal Design for Transition (UDT) (Best, Scott, & Thoma, 2015; Thoma et al., 2009), a recent framework that integrates the founding principles of Universal Design for Learning (Meyer, Rose & Gordon, 2014; CAST, 2018;…
Over the past two decades, technological change has produced new digital environments capable of accommodating and enhancing the artistic and cultural heritage that exists in vision but also in interaction. The contribution analyzes the possibilities of using networked historical-theatrical…
Increasing the quality of learning and teaching by promoting a closer link with research is the main mission of the European Knowledge Area. After a first revolution that has affected the school, characterized by the introduction of distance learning, today we are witnessing an ambitious challenge…
Today there is no relational, physical, social and economic/digital phenomenon that manages to escape from algorithmic modeling: this pervasiveness of algorithms shapes and deconstructs economic and social relationships. The question is very serious and deserves a continuous pedagogical study: it is…
The ethical-functional design, programming and management of artificial intelligence and robotics represent one of the greatest challenges that the new generations are certainly facing. A challenge that commits man to a return to the sense of the relationship that he/she has always weaved with…
The paper poses as a basis for analysis a question connected to the evolution, which took place from the 2000s to today, of the amount of data relating to the European training environment and made available to teachers of all grades and levels: "2000: Data Base and E-learning Platforms; 2020: Big…
Google is the most widely used search engine in the world (Statcounter, 2022) and many users consider it an indispensable tool for accessing any content on the Web. Nevertheless, one cannot overlook the fact that the service offered by the Mountain View company is subordinate to the profits it makes…
In the educational applications of multimedia and virtual reality there is a work of redefinition of the principles relating to the construction of learning environments, and of the role assumed by digital instruments in attributing significance to real life contexts. digital skills education, an…
The relationship between giftedness and the digital revolution deserves particular attention as regards the emotional experience of gifted children and young people. They are dependent on the emotional context, they don’t know how to act without allowing themselves to be permeated by the affective…