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Exploring the Montessori method in university courses. Active teaching and experiential learning to rediscover the value of the educational relationship

The multimedia nature of today’s expressive contexts and communicative languages has changed learning environments and youth training needs, dematerializing relational experiences. In May 2023, two professors from the SFBCT Department of the University of Macerata offered, to their students, a…

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Assessing teacher beliefs about the value of digital technology in instruction: Initial evidence of factor structure and reliability of the TECNOVAL questionnaire

The paper presents the construction and psychometric property analysis of a questionnaire (TECNOVAL) developed to investigate in-service teachers’ beliefs about the value of digital technology in instruction. The study examined the instrument’s data properties, factor structure, and reliability…

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Supporting the accessibility of educational services 0-6: good practices to promote educational continuity between school and family

This paper aims to provide a reflection on accessibility and continuity in education as key elements in supporting Integrated System implementation processes, leveraging the support of interprofessional pathways and fostering family participation. International research, reports and national laws…

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Olfactory LearNap: olfactory stimulation during learning and nap to strengthen memorization in early childhood

This pilot study investigates whether olfactory stimulation, proposed during both learning and naps for children aged 2-3 years, can impact the consolidation of a mnemonic trace. Research demonstrates how sleep plays a central role in this process, and, in early childhood, promotes brain…

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Teacher Training and the Course for the 5 ECTS Credits: Satisfaction with the Quality of the Service Perceived by the Teachers

The paper reflects on satisfaction as an evaluative measure of perceived quality; in particular, on the satisfaction with the quality of the service on the part of the secondary school teachers who passed the extraordinary competition and followed the training course to acquire the 5 ECTS credits,…

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Analysis of assessment practices and implementation of evaluation reform in the primary school: an interplay between persons and contexts

The article examines a project carried out in collaboration with U.S.R. Toscana in the 2020-21 school year. The researchers designed three actions - research, training, consultancy - and analyzed 15 assessment practices in the context of the primary evaluation reform decreed by the O.M. 172/2020. A…

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The effects of assessment as learning on the development of students’ evaluative judgement and self-efficacy: an experience in primary school

The recognition of an active and co-responsible role of learners in assessment has grown in importance over time. In particular, the “assessment as learning” approach highlights how assessment processes contribute to the developing of learners’ competences and engagement. In recent years,…

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The evaluation process in the parental education practices. From the analysis of the outcomes to the evaluation of the contexts

The theme of evaluation allows us to explore a reality continuously growing abroad, which is also quite widespread in Italy: the parental education. Unconventional educational experiences and traditional school paths find a common element in the evaluation of the outcomes. From our perspective, the…

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Evaluating for Redesign: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Demographic Changes of Students in the Master’s Degree Program in Teacher Education Education

This paper presents the results of an evaluation research project conducted at the University of Milano-Bicocca's Master's Degree Program in Teacher Education. The research used a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to: a) describe the changing socio-demographic and occupational profiles of…

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“Educating to choose for the future”: an active guidance programme towards school-university transition (PNRR)

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…

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Creative Practices 3-6 in kindergarten

The concept of creativity recalls multiple skills and competencies, such as personality and motivational factors, styles, strategies, and metacognitive reflections (Runco, 2013). Educational proposals aimed at developing creativity in preschoolers involve diverse cognitive processes that develop…

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Tackling online hate speech with the involvement of targeted groups. The methodological proposal of the project REASON – REAct in the Struggle against ONline hate speech

This article analyses the project "REASON - REAct in the Struggle against ONline hate speech", which aims to counter online hate speech from a methodological point of view, drawing attention to the training actions of the Research Center on Intercultural Relations of the Catholic University of the…

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University education between professional skills and the development of students' subjectivity: the case of two degree courses in communication sciences

University education is conceived, on the one hand, as a contribution to the development of subjectivities (Biesta, 2017) and, on the other hand, as a response to the various demands of stakeholders, territories, work sectors and, in general, the market economy (De Feo & Pitzalis, 2017). This…

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A school outside of school: an analysis of the laboratory methodology from a pedagogical point of view in educational community for young people

This paper aims to explore the pedagogical aspects, still little explored, of the competence of the social educator in non-formal contexts of educational community for young people. These entities draw the development of a laboratory methodology from the perspective of the pedagogical design,…

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