Open-ended play emerges as a profoundly democratic educational practice: it fosters active participation, stimulates critical and divergent thinking, and enables children and adults to construct meanings of the world in a free, subjective, and shared way. In a cultural context marked by the…

This contribution explores the formative value of video analysis as a reflective and participatory methodology within early childhood education services, with a specific focus on the observation of children's play. Drawing on a field-based training experience, it highlights how the use of video…

This paper aims to offer, from a distinctly pedagogical perspective, an analysis of recent legislative changes concerning the admission of migrants in Italy. In particular, adopting critical pedagogy as its epistemological framework (Freire, 1970; Colicchi, 2009; Giroux, 2020), the study first…

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 light of the indications and guidelines for the implementation of the PNRR measures (M4 C1) relating to Investment Area 1.6 'Active guidance towards school-university transition' and the indications provided by Ministerial Decree no. 934/2022, universities are called upon to implement 15-hour…

During the training workshops Assessment of learning organized by the scientific high school “E. Fermi” in Aversa (CE) for newly hired teachers and with transfer of role (a.s. 2022/2023), the paradigm shift was illustrated which, in recent decades, is transforming assessment in the classrooms,…

The essay presents the first results of the research that investigated the variegated universe of competences possessed by “future teachers”, i.e. those enrolled in PF24, the Training Path for the acquisition of 24 credits in anthropo-psycho-pedagogical disciplines, of the University of Naples…

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…