The survey carried out as part of "Digital Connections", a two-year project by Save the Children with the Research Center on Education for Media, Innovation and Technology (CREMIT) of the Catholic University, detects a significant number of minors of lower secondary schools in which the condition of…

Within the framework of a strategy of attention to the life cycle (Pinto Minerva, 2012; WHO, 2011), the pedagogy of the elderly (Musaio, 2020) approaches the theme of care (Mortari, 2006; Iori, 2008) through the promotion of the person in his uniqueness, in consideration of the networks in which he…

The paper presents the results of a first exploratory survey on an innovative teaching project, created on the initiative of some teachers interested in practicing formative and orienting assessment with strength and continuity, as well as inclusive pedagogical methodologies. The project – “The…

This paper aims to present an ongoing experimentation in the University of Bari to the propotyping of blended learning training models in the university context. The current academic scenarios, in fact, are characterized by a particular attention to the methods of delivery and use of the training in…

The article provides an overview of the education professionals, who operate in different educational fields with an “apical” level role. Specifically, the research presents the results of a survey referred to the ex-students of Master’s Degree course in Pedagogia e Scienze dell’educazione e…

Cooperative approaches and technology are recognized as key issues in the contemporary debate on how to promote social inclusion in schools. Within the ongoing EU Project COoPING (Erasmus+ KA210-SCH) the links between them were explored through a scoping review. The ERIC database was queried to…

The research was carried out as part of a vast project to combat failure in university studies, the provision of guidance and mentoring for students entering the university for the first time, with a view to improving the services offered. First, it was meant to verify the content validity of a…

The third sector also represents an informal learning context where competence and knowledge are acquired, often in a tacit and indirect way. This research focuses on the strategic competences of the third sector professionals and on the pedagogical methods to make them visible and to encourage…

The paper introduces the theoretical and methodological framework behind the design of a digital internship programme (Tirocinio-on) and the related tools based on the constructs of self-directed guidance, digital work-integrated learning and career management skills. The programme involved a total…

The overcoming of the Covid-19 pandemic elicited to rethink didactic models of STEAM teaching towards the construction of methodological repertories learner-centered and inquiry-based, useful to emphasize learning through experience in highly technological contexts. Against this backdrop, the…

The spaces in which education takes place are becoming progressively more fluid, especially when we think of the advances in the development of increasingly sophisticated and all-consuming technologies and digital tools. The resulting network can no longer be configured as an actual place, confined…

In recent years, while the Covid-19 epidemic has highlighted the centrality of teachers’ skills for learning in non-standard conditions, ministerial actions related to the PNRR have led to the establishment of Teaching and Learning Centers. In 2022, a University Commission for Faculty Development…

The paper describes two Project-Based Learning experiences (PjBL) that engage future educators. The proposed projects include the creation of a radio program for the web broadcaster Radio UAO and a virtual Lego set for the Lego Idea contest. The methodology allows to acquire meaningful concepts in…

The transition from upper secondary education to tertiary education is a crucial node of awareness and empowerment that, if not managed correctly, can give life to "university drop-out". This contribution examines one of the strategies implemented by universities to handle this phenomenon: peer…

The article presents a two-year trial aimed to develop reading and writing pre-requisites in kindergarten through the enhancement of metaphonological and musical activities. On the basis of scientific evidence, it is reasonable to suppose that the use of musical play may represent a promising…

The illustrated study, by the title “Cyberbulling? No thanks, together we can! would like to present the results of a research that involved some classes in the territory of Bari’s city, on a sample of eighthundredand fifty male and female students. The focus of the research is to identify the…

About 30% of students in the world attend primary education in multi-grade classes. Multi-grade education is common in many rural areas of the so-called minority world, i.e. high-income countries such as the United States, Canada, in many European countries and in majority world countries such as…

This contribution is part of the study and research trajectories launched by the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education, Teacher education for inclusion – International Literature Review (2012) and aims to highlight how the ICF-CY (World Health Organization 2001), based on the…

The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes 17 goals, the fourth of which is dedicated to quality and inclusive education as a basis for improving people's lives. Sustainable development goes hand in hand with the construction and dissemination of a scientific approach and method, as an…

Using devices and of self-narration can be essential for those who experience multiple forms of inconvenience and think they cannot find their way in their lives, losing the meaning. They represent a toolbox for rediscovering who one is, for understanding what one has to do for what one wants to…

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced higher education systems in most parts of the world to quickly adapt to face the emergency. While a certain amount of research has focused on analysing the influence of the pandemic on teaching and learning practices or on international mobility, less interest has…

The article presents a case study dedicated to the analysis of teaching and learning resources elaborated in the scope of the FABULA C-Plus Project, developed between 2020 and 2022, through partnerships with institutions from Italy, Greece, and Spain; as well as the potentiality of these strategies…

The reception and inclusion of immigrants is a process in which educational inclusion is still a problematic node, which needs to be investigated, in order to understand what the obstacles are to access to lifelong learning and what are the necessary interventions to encourage participation. The…

In 2021 the Research Center on Education for Media, Innovation and Technology (Cremit) of the Catholic University and Save the Children proposed using the new construct of “digital educational poverty”, which broadens the concept of “digital divide”. Digital educational poverty is not…

The paper aims to contribute to the reflection on the new scenarios and to deepen the best practices that emerged in the school context during the pandemic period. Are reported the outcomes of an exploratory research carried out within the framework of a Manifestation that, integrating a plurality…

The different contexts of education - both related to the university context, to teacher training, and to different professional figures - have been going through a profound change in the ways not only of delivery and fruition of online training content. A debate, the one related to instructional…

Agenda 2030 sets out goals that refer directly to the world of education: "Providing quality, equitable and inclusive education and learning opportunities for all" (ONU, 2015, p. 14). The need for equitable and inclusive education is, in fact, a fundamental prerequisite for the improvement of people…

Starting from the principles of Karl Mannheim's sociological theory of generations and from the analysis of the 11th Civita Report "Indagine su Giovani e Cultura", focused on the knowledge of values and expectations of the young generations in the digital age in order to favour their active…

After the spread of Covid-19 in Italy, digital technologies have made it possible to carry on the ordinary activities of the various educational agencies, through the main tool of Distance Learning (DaD). This paper focuses attention on the social impact (OEC-DAC in Stern, 2016) of the DaD to…

The general purpose of this review is to analyze the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the labour market. The specific objectives consist in making explicit the relationship between AI, lifelong learning and school education and identifying the skills and capabilities needed, within this…