In the light of the situation of the Italians in the field of reading in the European scenario and of the national guidelines for the curriculum, the importance of the “reading aloud" is reflected and indications are given as to the most appropriate places and times to practice shared reading in…

The complexity of the times we live leads us to develop autonomy, potential, skills and competences to continually build our identity, knowledge and relationships, to reach the highest level of meta-competence; therefore the deep knowledge of the processes of introspection and relative reaction. In…

This article analyses the interactions between labour-market dynamics, education and lifelong-learning policies, by examining the principal changes in the economic system and in the strategic role of education in today’s knowledge society, in relation to critical global-scenario issues, like the…

Reading stories to preschool children in the family and offering them quality books lays a solid foundation for reading promotion. For this reason, the article aims to highlight how the family can and should be the privileged place to learn and to refine the level of emotional literacy and the…

Leaders who choose the style of transformational leadership act on group members by changing their values, needs and beliefs through consensus and participation in achieving goals. In managing occupational health and safety, transformational leaders can be of fundamental importance as they can:…

School evaluation aims at monitoring or improving the quality of the school as a whole. In order to guarantee the quality of the Education and Training system it is not enough to define and control the starting standards, but it is crucial to explain and verify the arrival standards. In such a…

The contribute offer a reflection about education’s meaning and invite us to recover the value of instruction and formation for the purpose of human realization. Only through education the individual can to rehabilitate the thought’s liberty, idea’s strength, his creative capacity and express…

In this article, mainly referring to two authors (F.Covey and A. Grün), "I reflect aloud" on what can be the references for a Leader who does not drive, and therefore is not guided, only by following the business logic or even more simply the company logic. A leader who, although responsibly…

The culture of risk is the product of social organization, and therefore of the underlying relation-ships. Fatalism, individualism, marginalization are just some of the attitudes that individuals have towards risk. Ulrich Beck (2013) deals with the issue of risk communities, that is, groups of…

The relationship between the individual and the organization in the productive sphere express a very high level of complexity, in many respects superior to that relating to the multidimensional relationship between the individual and society. In fact, the impact that the work organization, with its…

For just over five years, even in our country, under the pressure of supranational public debate, there has been much talk about “social innovation”, without it being always clear what is meant by this definition. Therefore, the objective of this brief reflection is to circumscribe the meaning…

We consider three perspectives in determing the number of persons involved in the so called "Hensel twins", a case of adult conjoined twins: 1. the materialistic perspective establishes the equivalence between the number of brains and the number of persons involved. A body having two brains is…

The dual system work-based learning (WBL) allows the students to realize part of their formative curriculum in working contexts, turning the model of tied up learning to a single disciplines into a different model that recognizes the value of the informal and not formal learnings in terms of…

The problem of evaluation is an old problem, because every time we take initiatives to achieve a training objective, we also feel the need to check if the objectives are achievable. Evaluation processes today use new technologies that are able to meet this need, but it is also necessary to give the…

The main object philosophy deals with from its beginning is being. Human being, because of his peculiar connection with being, is characterized by an endless deside that cannot properly be fullfilled. Consciousness is indeed twofold, being composed by 1) its formal comprehension of being…

Today, training is considered one of the fundamental interventions to improve the perception of occupational risk and to help develop and sediment culture on occupational safety. With regard to occupational safety, a timely analysis of the training needs must take note of the risk assessment carried…

The today’s challenge by the organizations of the public health service is perhaps basically constituted by the need to develop an individual and collective more professional empreneurship capable of urge internal and external resources through a specific and well-defined strategic orientation,…

Thanks to the tumultuous digital technologies development, nowadays we live in a world without boundaries, characterized by liquid communities that meet and collide, sometimes denying mutual recognition. We move in a communicative bulimia where information runs like in a circus where the sense and…

Questo periodo storico si presenta come uno dei più duri. I prodotti più evidenti della crisi sono chiaramente le condizioni d’instabilità, incertezza e precarietà economica, che incidono profondamente anche sullo stato sociale, educativo e culturale. Il futuro prossimo non sembra capace di…

It has been 13 years since the European Year of Citizenship Through Education. The need of the role of the education relating to European Union’s issues is now clearer and clearer. Indeed, even though the Treaties define every inhabitant of the Member States as “citizen” and give him or her…

Rethinking the role of educator in formal and non-formal educational context: this is the objective of the article. In the reflection we remember the Law 205 (c. 594-601) that regulates the profession. To recognize the value of the educator, we recall the studies of John Dewey, Maria Montessori,…

From some years burnout seems to have an increasing escalation among teachers, with serious consequences both for the person that lives the uneasiness and for the organization school and for the students. Burnout is not therefore a problem of the single teacher, on which to act individually; it asks…

The aim of the following work is to analyze an effective method for managing the growing issues at the infant and adolescent level. The "Making Stories" method will be described, implemented by the Institute of Group Research and Generational Psychology (IRG) of Lugano, founded by Marcoli Ferruccio.

In the present article, we will be focusing on the possible scenarios that could raise from the analysis of the anencephalic newborn as organ donor. These scenarios are as follows: 1) organ donation is banned; 2) organ donation is possibile according to the brain death criterion; 3) in order to…

L’orientamento tradizionale non rappresenta più lo strumento idoneo a gestire la transizione “sempre più critica” tra scuola, formazione e lavoro, ma deve essere integrato da una nuova impostazione capace di creare valore permanente nella vita di ogni giovane studente, garantendone lo…

La dispersione scolastica e lo skills mismatch tra competenze richieste e disponibili, nonostante la diminuzione degli ultimi anni, costituiscono ancora un grave problema per il nostro Paese, con ricadute sui percorsi personali e sul sistema socio-economico. Partendo da un recente articolo, che…

Educational agencies are going through a difficult transition period that is having important consequences in terms of de-legitimation of the social mandate historically assigned to school. The reason of this widespread uneasiness is due to the fact that today we are living in a complex system where…

Italian Universities, under some social, cultural and economic pressures, have been called to change the institutional action adding to the two traditional missions, on the one hand the Didactics for a qualified training and on the other the Research, a new objective (called "Third Mission") aimed…

Every organization shall check an activity list in order to make profit; each activity is itself depending on a series of bonds (technology, assets, human resources, infrastructures...). In-business Learning is an essential bond: without it business process could even decade till complete breakout.…

What means ‘key competences’ and why developing them is so important in today's society? This paper focuses on three aspects of 21st century school: the importance of competences in information society, the definition in international frameworks for key competences and new approaches in teaching…