Vocational Education and Training (VET) aims to prepare young students for the labor market by jointly promoting vocational and transversal competences. Some of the most transversal ones, such as the Citizenship Competence (Council of the European Union, 2018), are particularly important in…

The university is undoubtedly a privileged place for participation, confrontation, and continuous educational investment. A place where students are actively encouraged to reason and solve problems by autonomously obtaining and drawing on all the necessary information sources. The study describes…

Serious Games (SG) represent an innovative and increasingly popular learning mode in a variety of fields, including education, vocational training and personnel selection. The use of such tools is based on the ability to engage users in playful activities, aimed at assessing and developing specific…

The central role of Serious Games (SG) in the development of soft skills, of the worker's personal competences, prompts pedagogical reflection. In fact, if on the one hand their presence is propaedeutic to better performance in work roles, on the other hand one cannot ignore the formative scope for…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The concept of resilience describes the ability to resist and cope with the destructive challenges that life sometimes imposes, a process that involves dynamic aspects that support, encourage and promote the ability to struggle, overcome obstacles, alongside biological determinants, caregivers…

Humanoid robotics will help us to live better (Cingolani, 2018): human-like robots able to interact with their surroundings are no longer science fiction, but they can be purchased by e-commerce platforms. Dealing with the new evolutionary paradigm based on artificial intelligence and machine…

The technological innovations linked to the expansion of digital technology to production, distribution and consumption processes, brought up contrasting visions regarding their effects on work. The possible benefits connected to them are not uniformly distributed among skilled/unskilled workers, in…

In today's society, working models and participation in community life require a more careful interpretation and a reconsideration of the methods of using personal, relational and group skills. In the School, in addition to disciplinary knowledge, it is necessary to give students the skills to…

In the context of the current scientific debate, soft skills are deemed a lifelong core factor of individual choices. As a consequence, a vast educational and psychological literature tries to individuate the real nature of soft skills and to find instruments for the development and assessment of…