The contribution reports the data related to the monitoring of the first year of the project "Solo posti in piedi. Educare oltre i banchi", financed by the Social Enterprise “Con i Bambini”, with the aim of fighting educational poverty in L'Aquila, ten years after the earthquake that struck it…

A territorial analysis of the Index of Educational Poverty points out that the Italian regions which have the lowest scores in terms of educational poverty are those that are more willing to participate in the calls for applications for founding provided by the ESF and the EFRD. A longitudinal…

The contribution presents some results of a survey on the relation among the quality of university experience, dropout, resilience and earthquake, conducted at the University of L'Aquila. The latter represented a university context located in an area of high fragility, which offered the opportunity…

In Italy, the right to study is guaranteed without any discrimination to Italians and foreigners (Article 34 of the Constitution). Among the national targets there is the aim to invest on training actions of operators and on renewal of educational and vocational guidance measures, also aimed at…

The lockdown due to Covid-19 required recourse to personal and community resilience. To investigate this ability, the RRC-ARM questionnaire (Resilience Research Center - Adult Resilience Measure) was administered to a sample of 455 adults. The questionnaire has been adapted to the Italian context…

The contribution presents the research-training implemented within the EduSostenibile project, funded by the “Con i Bambini Foundation”. The project proposal has promoted the birth and development of Educating Communities which has resulted in the construction of eight Territorial Educational…

The contribution presents a reflection, based on research, on the theme of guidance and enhancing the competences of foreign students in the CPIA (Center for adult education). Access to education of migrants requires methods suitable for promoting an effective inclusion process. The CPIA are the…

Starting from the concrete experience of the New Generation Community (NGC) project, selected by the Con i bambini Foundation, part of the Fund for the fight against child educational poverty, with a portfolio of forty-three subjects, the article considers the perspective of the educating…

This contribution presents an experience conducted during the Coronavirus -COVID19 pandemic to investigate students' emotional distress. The typology of this discomfort is located within emotional poverty, which has its roots in the absence of equity and social justice, to which difficulties linked…

The purpose of this contribution is to evaluate the self-efficacy perceived by the educator who operates in contexts of disability in the management of complex problems (Bandura, 2006) such as those characterizing the period of health and social emergency derived from COVID-19, where educational…

In Italy, the health emergency has had strong consequences on people’s lives, amplifying already evident inequalities and generating new ones. In the field of education, there have been heavy effects on educational poverty: the rapid move to distance learning (at least its “emergency” version…

Affective poverty, strongly related to emotional illiteracy, has lifelong implications for the individual and can manifest through different behavioural problems. In this work, we took into consideration callous-unemotional (CU) traits, which are judged as one of the most serious forms of emotional…

How can we develop training courses through distance teaching ensuring same learning opportunities for all students taking into account different forms of communication and a plurality of educational mediators (Damiano,1999)? Starting from the recent and fruitful assumption that teaching is design…

The national health emergency, caused by the spread of Covid-19, involved the school system and required an effort to the school-family alliance and to institutions in order to promote e-learning. The paper describes strategies adopted to reschedule an educational project for primary schools,…

The paper presents the first results of a survey (still in progress) promoted by the QTimes - Journal of Education, Technology and Social Studies, in collaboration with the Roma TrE - Education Foundation (University of Roma Tre) and National IRASE (Academic, Social and Educational Research…

In literature many studies have been investigated burnout on teachers (Johnson et al., 2005; Kyriacou, 2001) as an effect of stress linked to various negative consequences in relation to various factors (Bakker et al., 2004; Leiter et al., 2000; Wright et al., 1998). In the scientific field,…

The state of emergency caused by COVID-19 has forced the closure of non-essential production and commercial services and activities and all face-to-face educational and training activities. Workplace training has required more time - compared to schools and universities - to resume activities via…

The article presents a Collaborative Research path between teachers and researchers, based on the analysis of practices and their transformation. The focus has been placed on the concept of task, an instrumental artifact that, even in a virtual situation, is configured as: a space for the…

This research investigates and analyses the emotional, social, and relational responses and attitudes put in place by children in order to react to the health emergency caused by the spread of Covid-19. Moreover, this study aims to develop an educational intervention tool that can be available to…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Higher Education Institutions had to quickly shift from a traditional or blended approach to an online one and find solutions to foster students’ engagement and motivation. This paper aims to describe the pilot experience of an instructional methodology based on…

The measures aimed to contain the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) led to social distancing and limitation of exits also at didactic level. Physical movement has been drastically limited or interrupted, with important consequences on mental and physical well-being. It can thus have a negative…

The health crisis triggered by COVID-19 puts the right of students to obtain a fair and appropriate education under stress. The assumption that the suspension of physical activities may involve an impoverishment of educational growth inspired this study, The National Operative Programme (PON) tried…

The contribution presented aims to give an account of a specific university experience, responding to the need for micro level analysis and proposing to enter the "black box" of a "class" inhabited by 40 students of the Master's Degree Course in Pedagogical Sciences. It also aims to share the…

A university department of social sciences engaged in a collective reflection on the distance learning experience during the Covid-19 emergency. Before the university decided, it chose the way of pluralism of digital solutions in favor of the continuity of teaching. The article discusses the first…

This paper addresses the issue of evaluation in distance learning (in France they call it continuité pédagogique, an expression that clearly refers to a pedagogical and cultural implicit, that is not in the expression “distance learning”) by taking an exploratory approach centered on teachers'…

The article highlights the role taken by technological resources in the emergency situation that we are tackling, witnessing either the extraordinary formative performances or the relational skills developed by digital media. In particular, it is the educative system that constitutes an interesting…

DaD is not the simple reproduction of traditional teaching practices with virtual tools, it is a teaching that requires an innovative approach, as on the basis of social constructivism, it pursues the objective of creating learning situations in which the student can independently and responsibly…

The present transformations and challenges that Knowledge Society demands, as well as the main implications that Information and Communication Technologies have over higher education, universities and especially over professional development of teachers of this educational level, have a deep impact…

Deprivation and inequities are key determinants of social exclusion and marginalization. An additional factor compounds the negative effects generated by deprivation and inequity: educational poverty. Although it has been largely overlooked both in theory and in practice, educational poverty…

Teachers’ digital competence is one of the key elements for tackling the many and new challenges found in today schools. For this reason, it is crucial to start a reflection on the concept of Digital Pedagogy, an approach that integrates technological competencies with a profound pedagogical…