This work embraces the most recent contributions of Italian special pedagogy (Pinnelli, 2019; 2017; Sorrentino, 2020; Cinque, 2013) and of international pedagogical research (Gagné, 1985, 2004) on giftedness and talent in the sports field (Platvoet et al., 2015), as well as on approaches (Faber et…

In this theoretical article, we define Learning to Learn (L2L), at the intersection between cognitive and non cognitive skills. We then point to a pedagogical pathway to develop L2L since early childhood, framed in a sociocultural perspective. In this line of thought, we describe L2L’s empowerment…

Today's digital contemporaneity requires more than ever the ability to relate and to socially connect, even and above all, at a distance, without however ever neglecting the emotional and empathic aspects that characterize, shape and found educational communication. This article discusses the…

In the last two years, pupils and school and teaching staff have experienced situations of discomfort, malaise, stress, distancing, learning deficits and relationship problems. To contrast this acute phenomena caused by the pandemic, schools are now invested with new responsibilities and are called…

Il primo numero del 2022 di questa rivista esce in un momento delicato della nostra vita comunitaria. Dopo ventiquattro mesi di convivenza forzata con la Pandemia, determinata dal virus denominato Sars-Cov 2, mentre siamo ancora immersi nelle cosiddette ondate di contagi, con numeri stabilmente…

La sezione monografica del numero 1/2022 della rivista Q-Times ha inteso riflettere sulla progettazione scolastica e sociale a partire dal Piano Educativo Individualizzato, così come definito dal Decreto interministeriale n. 182 del 29 dicembre 2020, successivamente annullato dalla sentenza n.…

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 inclusive horizon, understood as a potentially infinite process, opens up the acquisition of a critical-transformative perspective by the schools called upon to follow this process. The definition of the IEP is the planning act where the need to foster cultures, make choices and plan and…

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 paper proposes a reflection on the role played by social stereotypes, beliefs and convictions on the mental predisposition of teachers and students towards disabilities. The subject of the analysis is the teachers’ adoption of attitudes that can favor, but also hinder, the integration process…

The ICF, as a conceptual coordinator, is able to guide the methods of collaboration within the learning environments. It is presented as an expression of the capability approach. In the current analysis we intend to highlight the elements of the multidimensional and multi-perspective language of the…

According to the current lines of contemporary research, the aim of the framework of inclusive education is to respond to the diversity and learning differences of all students, through a different environmental organization for everyone. The IEP can represent an extremely important educational and…

The paper proposes a reflection on the impact that disability and its social representations can have on the identity definition of these students. The subject of the investigation is the social roles that the disabled are called to interpret in a society where fears and prejudices can often take on…

On the basis of an idea of inclusive didactics conceived as particularly committed to equity in the way educational actions are planned, carried out and evaluated, the article develops the theme of inclusive lesson planning. The present literature on lesson planning highlights how the current…

Modern society, or as in J.-F. Lyotard’s (1979) words, postmodern society, is always more frequently identified as a vessel containing the conditions of human distress which derive from “destructive emotions”; these emotions change the surrounding environment such that they are eventually out…

In this paper the author tries to focus the educational principles which establish the concept of “the community of practice”. Through this analysis the author gives us some concepts of social pedagogy and also clarifies the deep meaning of an inclusive school, which is one of crucial problems…

Today, digital tools are an integral part of our social fabric, and this leads us to reflect on two interrelated aspects: transformation and awareness. By transformation, we are referring to those spaces where social interaction takes place, and which, thanks to the continual growth of internet…

This paper presents the joint experience between the Italian National Statistical Institute and the European Association for Economic Education (EAA) to design teaching and learning units on the themes of the 2030 Agenda. The learning units concern 3 Goals coherent with the work objectives of the…

Within the Italian educational and scholastic contexts, the commitment of the socio-pedagogical professional educator, as well as all the other specialties present in the multi-professional team of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), represents an essential point of observation.…

Within a few years, the word cyborg has extended its presence beyond the boundaries of scientific research and coming to invade the collective imagination: precisely, it indicates interventions on the human being that have as a result the thread and ontogenetic change of the human being through the…

This consideration begins from the evident observation regarding how technology has an important and central role in human lives. First of all, this study looks at the essence of the technique and the benefits and risks of technology. Then, it tries to deduce from its logical procedure the essential…

What is the academic path of aspiring teachers? What is the perception of this role in the community? Theachers’ training is today more than ever a current topic. Different competences are requested from teacher, including planning and organizational skills in the face of the changing interests…

We are all more or less aware of the role that fairy tales play in the balanced growth of a child. In his or her developmental journey, the fantasy that comes from them can certainly accompany him or her and help him or her to cope better with some of life's most important moments. But why is it so…

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…

The relationship between cultural interventions and the territory has assumed particular relevance in the current educational scenario, characterized by a profound transformation in the concept of cultural heritage, also following the requests coming from the numerous stakeholders and policy makers.…

The paper seeks to examine educational potentialities and implications belonging to a pedagogical action which resorts to narrative and metaphoric language as key for a rereading of the invisible dimension of formation, fostering the encounter and comparison with the latency sphere otherwise…

Surveys on the financial literacy levels of Italians show that there are still many categories of people at risk of social exclusion; OECD-PISA surveys show that from 2012 to 2018 the financial skills of Italian 15-year-olds have not improved, while recent Bank of Italy surveys show a high diversity…

Change and innovation have spread on as new landmarks in a networked society, where new cultural challenges are now shaping up: even more so in the present crisis time, stressed by persisting Sars Cov-2 pandemia, and they are now looking forward to getting proper responses and interventions that…

How to design and implement equitable and inclusive teaching? What pedagogical paradigm should be referred to? How do technologies contribute to enhance differences and personalize students' learning paths? With the aim of achieving the goal of designing and implementing flexible and equitable…

Through a general introduction on the experiences of DaD (Distance Learning) and DDI (Integrated Digital Education), which involved all schools of all levels and also saw the most reluctant teachers approaching digital to the DigCompEdu European framework to understand how teachers of the 21st…

This paper presents a critical approach to address the concept of learning to learn. It is emphasized the qualitative nature of such an approach and the challenge it represents for education. The focus is on learning to learn as a core strategic competence for lifelong learning, since it can…

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 cyborg has looked like a chimeric dream for a long time. Nowadays, the systematic development and application of convergent technological projects have made it possible to develop. Each technological evolution then walks hand in hand with the cultural self-understanding of a certain historical…

In the last decades there has been a revolution in the didactic-evaluation field, this revolution - still in progress - is called Distance Learning (DAD). This new method of teaching/learning became necessary in the pandemic period 2020-2021. It presents, as a fundamental aspect, the redefinition of…

The pandemic situation has changed many of our habits, especially in the communication and the relational fields, due to the so-called “social distancing”. The complex adaptation to the adopted prevention norms has been even more complicated for some categories, which have been further penalized…

The Covid19’s emergency forced the entire educational system, even colleges, to switch from frontal classes to remote classes (DaD). This brand new way of taking classes changed all at once roles and routines, organizational procedures, teaching methods, interaction. This article presents the…

The dynamics of know-how and professional declinations in the fields of pedagogy and didactics. The progressive epistemological autonomy of the Pedagogical Sciences and the prospective of the educational behaviour in its many professional declinations. New frontiers and transdisciplinary approaches…

This article focuses on the main stages of the short-lived experience of the regional Almanacs, or regional culture textbooks containing a variety of notions, which became part of the mandatory reading materials in primary schools during the aftermath of the Gentile Reform of 1923, with the aim of…

In an essential, rigorous and systematic way, the paper defines traits and functionalities of one of the practice the pedagogical practitioner employs in the planning and supervision of adult education actions: self-narration training circle.. The analysis deals with theoretical references, venues,…

In the digital world, socio-relational dynamics and communications take place as conversations using different language forms. Today, writing has assumed other connotations, as the linguistic codes being used are not only the traditional ones of the text, but include different symbolic and…

The current Covid-19 pandemic is revealing - in all its drama - how the biological problem is actually strongly interconnected with human, social, political, environmental and justice factors. The prevalence of corporalized, hyper-specialized, technological health care and the medicalization of…

This article suggests a consideration on value of corpo reality, that have been for a long time disregarded in formal educational situations, where cognitive and intellectual dimension of students has been given more preference in comparison with the one given to their own emozional lives, like this…

The pandemic highlighted the critical issues already present in our school for several years. However, this period of health emergency also represents an opportunity to redefine the role of the educational institution in social life and to ask ourselves what the future prospects of the education…

The Covid-19 pandemic led to further restrictions within the prison, which exacerbated pre-existing problems and weaknesses. The school in prison, which has always suffered from low visibility and lack of recognition of its specific features compared to other educational contexts, has had to face…

The crisis caused by the pandemic has made us understand the fragility of our educational system and how fundamental it is to start from a new pedagogical sensitivity that is able to enhance the ethics of responsibility. The introduction of the transversal teaching of civic education in the Italian…

Drawing on a perspective grounded on educational policy, this paper initially highlights how the post-pandemic age could bring about social change and foster the development of new shared ways of perceiving social reality—all of them being relevant for the renewal of school culture. In order to…

The pandemic emergency has strongly impacted numerous aspects of life, including education and training (United Nations, 2020). Due to the consequences of Covid-19, a multitude of situations of access to educational experiences at various levels and in the perspective of formal, non-formal and…

Covid-19 pandemic has hit all regions of the world hard. Despite efforts to contain the virus, no nation has managed to escape the infections and each person has been able to experience that the destiny of all men is united. The health emergency is teaching us that we are citizens of the same planet…

The paper analyzes the transformations to which teaching has been exposed during the pandemic emergency, with the aim of reflecting on the limits and opportunities offered by distance learning. The pandemic emergency has forced teachers and students to review not only the methods of teaching, but…

One year after the start of the pandemic, each child and adolescent globally has lost seventy-four days of education: more than a third of the school year. One hundred and twelve billion days of education lost, especially among the world’s poorest children (UNESCO and Center for Global…

This paper represents a reflection on the critical issues that the Italian school has faced during the pandemic, in order to identify an inclusive educational culture. Starting from some national in progress researches (SIRD; Agnelli Foundation, University of Bolzano, LUMSA University &…

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…

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…

The strong limitations to teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic raise fears that in the school there may be a loss of learning in all school grades. The learning loss, which occurs in periods of prolonged interruption from lessons, cannot currently be calculated exactly. The lack of INVALSI data for…

The covid-19 health emergency, with the containment and isolation measures adopted, has produced new ways of remote relationships, experienced by people in private and professional contexts through the use of digital platforms. Platforms have become the new virtual meeting, aggregation and learning…

The article discusses a key issue of the legislative, social and cultural policies of today’s complex societies: the dialectical question between social integration, multiculture and interculture that refers to the pedagogical relationship between self and otherness. In particular, this report…

What happens to university students during the COVID 19 emergency, when the University is betrayed (in the literal sense of the term, i.e. transported in a new dimension), and students leave the lessons in presence, to suddenly move to on line platforms? This is what we wanted to investigate in a…

Potential actions aimed at the creation and development of an Italian “New School”, capable of leaving no one behind, could be traced in many contexts: infrastructures, ministerial programs, laws, regulations and much more. This essay intends to establish a specific scope of action, determining…

In its educational, education and training values, schools are complex places on several levels: organisational, managerial and didactic. As a democratic device for the development of every citizen, the school is a milieu for promoting skills to inhabit the complexity of the processes under way and…

The robots are becoming more and more common in everyday life. In the last years their use has also increasingly spread to the field of didactics, starting with their use as tools in STEM education. With the advancement of social robotics, the use of robots in didactics has been extended also 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…

Starting from the Lippmann-Dewey debate, this paper relates its themes to nowadays’ society, understood as featured by complexity, difficult access to scientific information, and poor political involvement. Such context prompts the authors to adopt Barber’s futurology, which envisages three…

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 paper analyzes the role that artificial intelligence can assume in the definition of more stimulating and inclusive teaching-learning environments, with particular reference to the possibility of supporting teaching action through augmented reality experiences. Augmented reality allows you to…

The paper analyzes the role that artificial intelligence is taking on in teaching processes, with particular reference to the possibility of monitoring students’ attention, during lessons or during an exam, using facial recognition software and movement analysis eyepieces. If on the one hand these…

In the realization that we cannot ignore that we live in what is called the infosphere, an environment in which the boundaries between the online life and the offline life in the reality of relationships, gradually disappear, this work wants to reflect on how this new environment makes it necessary…

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…

Through an interdisciplinary interpretation reflecting the complexity of the topic, the authors intend to provide guidelines and perspectives on pedagogical research in order to analyse AI in relation to learning and lifelong training. Is artificial intelligence really a resource worthy of…

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…

In western society, especially in the last decade, there has been an significant increase in the number of children in educational poverty. This situation is the consequence of multiple social factors that amplify the weaker subjects’ deprivation about their opportunities of learning and becoming…

This contribution reflects upon the issue of “educational poverty” linked to the current health situation. The emergency aroused by the spreading of Covid-19 has had multiple negative effects which, whilst affecting social and economic policies worldwide, have also experienced significant…

The digital skills are fundamental to make adequate use of the digital services of the public administration and to access to the world of work. In learning contexts, it is therefore important to increase the use of digital technologies in order to improve learning processes and to develop new…

This paper, through a study of the scientific literature, aims to understand the link between the phenomenon of educational poverty, young NEETs (Not engaged in Education, Employment or Training), and the use of new technologies in order to obtain effective training. This study deals with the…

The partnership between school and local actors is a very important organizational level factor for providing quality education, and because of the changes resulting from integrated teaching in the emergency and post-Covid19 restart phase it is even more so. The contribution focuses on the Italian…

Territorial inequality, and the consequent economic impoverishment, mean that instead of the urban dimension “typical” of the collective imagination a whole series of “minor” realities emerge, located in mountains, islands, internal and remote areas or in the suburbs of the country. In these…

The theme of educational poverty is becoming increasingly central to the national and international scientific and pedagogical debate, but also to the public and political one. The concept is multidimensional and presents the characteristics of scale necessary to frame the complexity of social and…

The paper examines the main causes of educational poverty (economic crisis, inadequate redistribution of wealth, quality of education and training, personal choices); the social effects that can derive from the emulation of models in which the logic of “everything and now” prevails and the role…

Technology, now for more than a decade, has entered the world of teaching in a predominant way, causing unconditional enthusiasm thanks to the myriad of possibilities offered by the countless applications and, at the same time, fears and harsh criticisms, especially for the consequences related to…

Nearing the end of the Europe 2020 Strategy (EC, 2010) the essay aims to explore, through a meta-analysis and critical reflection, equity as one of the forms of prevention adopted by the Finnish school system, among the best in the world in terms of outcomes, participation and teachers training…

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…

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…

“Even people with developmental, learning and adaptation difficulties must be considered protagonists of their own growth” (MPI, 1975). This statement by the Falcucci Commission is a cornerstone of the path that has led Italy towards inclusion. In fact, although there are still pull and push out…

The paper intends to highlight the issues concerning educational poverty at the time of Covid-19 and how the inequalities that are encountered in the school environment in contexts of educational normality have become acute and / or have acquired new forms in the phases I and II. The changes in the…

The contribution aims to reflect on the recent and complex phenomenon of the implicit early school leaving in the Italian school context. This problem represents an indicator of educational inequality and lack of fairness (Benvenuto, 2016) which is rooted in the poor quality of the school system in…

Among the factors contributing to educational poverty are not only the lack of adequate educational infrastructures at a local level, but also the lack of cultural, sports and leisure educational services, and poor access to digital platforms. From data available in the literature, this article will…

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…

Health emergency and the following crisis for the pandemic, still alive, give evidence how much our social- economic systems create many inequalities. We can suggest, for example , not all the Countries is not able to put into action the hygienic rules to prevent the virus diffusion or in our …

The papers examines the elements of novelty that characterize current educational relationships, which in the era of the social emergency covid-19, become web-mediated. Teachers and students have been forced to radically change their way of communicating and interacting, without having, among other…

Distance learning is a much-discussed topic; however, it has found more space in the debates than in the practical reality due to a mentality not inclined to change. Due to the crisis of the last few months, the topic has become decidedly more current since distance teaching has proved to be the…

Distance learning has "rained" on us. The first sensations are not positive, after all, simulating at a distance what is normally done in presence cannot be the solution. We are witnessing a revolution in the Teaching-Learning relationship, everyone will have to "redefine" the personal consolidated…

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 educational experience its emotional implications the debate on educational and social professions, that in latest years has involved the academic world and the professional associations, led to an intense exchange of experiences and, more recently, made possibile to draw up a legislative…

The sanitary emergency due to Covid-19 has and will have a strong impact on all our systems (education, training and, obviously, guidance). With the massive and invasive dissemination of distance teaching, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of digital resources and related…

The paper examines the impact of web-mediated communication on teaching, with particular reference to the dematerialization of the learning environment. The educational environment is analyzed from the psycho-pedagogical point of view in its meaning of “place of training”, part of the didactic…

This contribution aims to highlight what kind of pedagogy the DaD is capable of conveying. Drawing lessons from the moment of crisis that the country is going through, we will focus on the policies and educational actions to be organized along theoretical lines in an interdisciplinary…