This paper is a qualitative case study which explores university teachers' attitudes towards gamification, their expectations about the use of a gamified approach in HE courses, and their willingness to adopt this approach. This study also intends to highlight strategies by which HEIs interested in…

Digital learning increases cognitive and social skills (Anolli & Mantovani, 2011). This paper explores the use of Serious games (SGs) as online and collaborative learning tools. It reports the experience of an intervention addressed to 90 university students and the evaluation of the…

This paper presents an experience conducted by the writer within the Support Specialization Course of Roma Tre University in order to investigate whether and to what extent play is tolerated within a group of adults in training. More specifically, starting from the principles and methodology of Open…

In consideration of the growing application of seriuous games in multiple contexts (Breuer & Bent, 2010; Donovan, 2012; Bertolo & Mariani, 2014), the contribution bears witness to a training experience rooted within a formative culture that recognises in the “serious game” a fertile…

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 contribution presents a game-based training experience aimed at high school students, developed as part of the "Career Development and Future Professions'' orientation course offered by the University of Siena and funded through PNRR resources (D.M. 934/2022). The course involved 5 high schools…

“We can always do something. Didactic itineraries for legality” (Gianeselli, 2023) : in this project the serious game is built in four phases. The classroom’s setting is the simulation of a debate with the dialogical paradigm already experimented by Pasolini in the theatrical field and the use…

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…

Italian State Schools abroad constantly face an important challenge: guiding their students to face academic and informational barriers to University entry, combining the spread of Italian Culture abroad with the potential and real possibilities students have to move and get grants and scholarships…

The combination of disability and sexuality is a topic which still deserves deep analysis within the special-pedagogical research field, still dealing with taboos and prejudices. Teachers may promote a new culture of sexuality (within and with disability), only if they are seriously trained to…

The in-service training of tenured teachers is mandatory, permanent and structural (paragraph 124 of Law 107 of 2015) and it represents ethically, as well as legally, the fundamental prerequisite for the professional development, both individual and for the entire teachers’ community. For the…

The implementation of advanced manufacturing solutions in companies makes possible to improve the productivity, quality and production flexibility introducing new types of human-machine interactions that require appropriate assessment from an occupational health and safety perspective. In this…

The study aims to reflect on the training of future primary school teachers by starting from the use of the e-portfolio as an innovative tool to promote the acquisition of reflective and self-evaluation competence within the flipped classroom. The research, involved 154 students of Primary Education…

Despite the existing debate about the potential critical issues in translating neuroscientific findings into effective educational practices, Educational Neuroscience (EN) could be defined as an interdisciplinary field involving different perspectives and research areas in in constantly developing.…

Within the institution of the integrated Italian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system for children aged 0-6, a central aspect is the quality of services, besides their quantity. Legislative Decree 65/2017 provides for the establishment of Pedagogical Territorial Coordination groups…

The resort to distance (digital) learning, forced by the pandemic, has shed light on the urgence of laying the foundations of a digital inclusive education. Accordingly, this has now become a top priority in national and international agendas. The Erasmus+ project DigIn addresses this need by…

The development of a meaningful school-territory relationship is promoted by legislative indications and is implemented by building an educational offer that includes the expectations of families and the socio-economic context. The aims concern the design of pathways for the development of active…

The article presents a summary of the main outcomes of the project titled “Making Learning and Thinking Visible”, an initiative resulting from the collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Boston, MA), INDIRE and three upper secondary schools in Italy. The paper will…

The studies carried out in the field of neurosciences, motor sciences and the consequent didactic applications have highlighted the need to start processes for the planning and organization of contents, organizational methods and methodologies in physical education and in introducing sports, to…

Representations of disability have taken different forms over the centuries. From the exhibition of the monstrosities (of those were considered non-compliant) we have come to the exaltation of the tolerance of the different/disabled. Prejudicial attitudes and compassionate rhetoric – as well as…

This paper concerns some self-assessment initiatives in a comprehensive school in Rome (primary and lower secondary school) in 2021 and 2022. In particular, a written semi-structured interview on the well-being and discomfort conditions, developed by a group of teachers in collaboration with the…

For many years the scientific literature, almost exclusively international, has questioned the potential that Artificial Intelligence has in Education, in favoring the processes of inclusion and in modifying learning environments in an inclusive direction. Experiences of educational robotics…

Educational intervention by means of music implies improvements in language and sound recognition related to a certain letter, as the musical sound can support the written symbol. The auditory stimulation resulting from listening is a mechanism through which the child can therefore improve in letter…

In a globalised world, schools mirror a changing society. The research aims to identify the role of Intercultural Education in preparing future teachers. The study focused on the historical course of intercultural education in the European and former Soviet space. A comparison is made between…

The contribution describes phases and tools of a participatory research process, aimed at experimenting a fast and intuitive method for developing organizational wellbeing in an Italian company. It puts into practice the concept of sustainable employability and Amartya Sen's Capabilities approach…

The present work consists of an experiment, in a broad sense, of using an Artificial Intelligence model to define the state of the art on Artificial Intelligence in education. In short, we asked an Artificial Intelligence what Artificial Intelligence is, what are the possible applications in…

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 paper aims at illustrating the theoretical framework that has been used within the DigiCulture project (Erasmus+ KA204) to design, realize and evaluate the Digital Skills and Social Inclusion for Creative Industries MOOC Courses. Based on the data obtained from empirical research activities and…

The Ministerial Ordinance 172/2020 has modified the model for assessing the learning outcomes of pupils attending primary school, proposing an assessment system that leaves out the numerical grade and introduces descriptive judgment in the periodic and final assessment. As is clear from the…

The viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are rooted in the body’s interactions with the world aimed at gathering and collecting as much information as possible: cognition is situated, body based and for action (Wilson, 2002). From this perspective, embodied cognition…

This paper aims at presenting a survey dedicated to students, which investigates the awareness and beliefs they have about being part of the European Union and a European university alliance. Indeed, the recipients of this research are students belonging to the 6 founder institutions and to the…

The paper reflects on the formative potential and the limits of a typology of feedback scarcely explored in the literature, the collective feedback in the field of online education. The study evaluates the quality of formative feedbacks in a Professional Development Program on school evaluation…

This paper aims at building a state-of-the art pedagogical strategies to adopt in primary school to promote the inclusion of pupils from migration backgrounds, according to an intercultural approach. This framework, in fact, is currently missing, despite a flourishing scientific production in this…

This contribution aims to describe a good practice of digital literacy for the elderly population by insisting on an intergenerational educational logic. The Cyber School for Grandparents project aimed to train students attending the High School of Human Sciences to become warm experts of their…

The use of educational technologies allows on the one hand a greater personalization of learning and on the other hand offers a diversification of the contents to be presented. The literature has highlighted the value of the use of storytelling in the context of educational communication and thus…

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…

the article investigates the ethical relevance of artificial intelligence and the impact of technologies on the university life of the student population. Using both a theoretical and empirical approach, it is divided into two parts: in the first, the importance of ethically investigating the…

The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on the Italian school system have indirectly suggested the path that the Italian education system must be able to take in order to move toward a cutting-edge school model where the fluidity of communicative processes triggered by ICT must be able to integrate…

Digital skills currently play a fundamental epidiptic role in the ability of education systems to renew themselves and actively project future generations into an increasingly medial anthropic reality within a process of evolution which globally affects the whole of society. The multifaceted…

In the hyper-connected society, the profound and incessant technological transformation, augmented by the pandemic, inevitably reverberates in school contexts, reinforcing the innovative use of digital technology by competent teachers and school managers who are aware of the new forms of…

The unfolding educational scenario imposes reflections related to the function and decisive role that technologies can have in settings where emergency looks like a constant condition of the world and not a temporary and limited phenomenon. It requires new skills for teachers, related to the…

In the academic year 2021/2022 the research project “Prevention of domestic accidents and promotion of physical activity over 60” was carried out to promote the well-being of 8 groups of people over 60 (218 in total) in the province of Palermo. Within the project, the administration of the…

A strong expansion of digital practices has accompanied the pandemic emergence, also in education. This rapid change in an increasingly digital society implies to rethink the way education and training are designed in the various subject areas (European Commission, 2020), taking into account the…

The paper presents the main findings of exploratory research on the use of smartphones in the period of Covid-19. In particular, the quantitative survey, analyze the use of mobile phones within the family and domestic environment, specifically in the context of those family and intimate…

Due to the increasing SARS-CoV-2 infections, teaching activities in Italian schools were suspended on 5 March 2020. Since then, ministerial decrees promoted a teaching-learning process, totally or partially computer-mediated, leading to significant changes in the relational and content dimension of…

The common ground into which historical knowledge, techniques for creating digital environments and the tools of contemporary museology converge is called, by experts, Virtual cultural heritage, a recent field of research that aims at the virtual reconstruction of cultural heritage, useful for…

The new digital technologies are now an integral part of the communication and training practices of young people, who are conceived as naturally predisposed to the use of ICT. However, the rhetoric of the screen or net generation (Rivoltella, 2006) risks masking the diversity of ICT use experiences…

In Italy the training of the support teachers takes place in universitary specialization courses, in which the ICT are an important topic, and in the Covid-19 pandemic era the lectures were conducted remotely. Within the ICT remote class dedicated to the secondary teachers at the University of…

This contribution is dealing with the issue of online teaching in the Degree Course in Primary Education Sciences (SFP) at the University of Bari. An exploratory approach was adopted for the research, centered on students’ perceptions and opinions with reference to the latest ways of conducting…

This study aims to investigate the relation between students’ perception of their parental involvement in education and their motivation and well-being at school. For the survey, a parental involvement questionnaire (Clinton & Hattie, 2013) was adapted, administered to a sample of 361 middle…

The pandemic has had a strong impact on the psyche, emotions, sociability, behavior and lifestyles of adolescents and its prolongation is defined as a "secondary pandemic" because it is a less tangible, visible and quantifiable consequence than the primary one that every day invades official…

The health emergency caused by Covid-19 has highlighted the importance for students of having a quiet place to study and a technological equipment suitable for distance learning, in their homes. Until two years ago, the in-person classroom learning could compensate for the lack of these aspects,…

The health emergency caused by the spread of COVID-19 during 2020-21 forced schools of all levels to provide online education. The complexity of the situation that has emerged and the problems that have immediately spread has stimulated debate on various aspects of the issue, in particular on the…

The Hospital School (HSO) is configured as a non-standard learning environment in which all the indicators of the school system changes: space, time, bodies and relationships. The research saw a first phase consisting of an exploratory survey conducted with a mixed method approach to investigate:…

The birth of a child with a disability marks an irreversible existential turning point for the family. We have chosen to carry out a narrative investigation by examining the so-called "sliding doors effect" in family caregivers, in search of possible worlds, aspirations, stories, bonds, impulses…

In today’s world, the technological devices are becoming more and more protagonists in education field. They are predominant not only at school and university level, but they also have considerable educational potentiality in teacher training courses. This paper aims at focusing on the skills of…

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, blended teaching has been the norm in the past two years. This has brought about online workshops characterized by collaborative learning, action-reflection and on line interaction. Through an exploratory data research performed via an on-line questionnaire, this…

The paper presents an in-depth focus on the SIRD national survey on distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic for the Tuscany Region regarding the dimension of collaboration as a strategic asset to co-construct effective educational and teaching practices in all school orders. The…

The paper examines the structural model of a new type of lesson used to verify the preparation of the student before the final examination of any academic study course. This innovative teaching tool, which can be easily applied also in the study paths of all other non-academic levels, including…

One of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda is to promote lasting, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in which digital technology is an essential driver to ensure the active participation of the entire population and to support structural and organisational change. With the digital…

The Information and Communication Technologies, in today's school, represent useful tools to mediate and support students in a systemic-relational learning process and in activities of shared and participatory construction of new knowledge (Van Leeuwen & Janssen 2019; Torri, 2020). However, when…

For several years teachers’ training has been the object of analysis and reflections by different scholars who question (us and) themselves on the meaning of doing school in our contemporary world (Bocci, 2018; Sibilio & Aiello, 2018; Baldacci, Nigris & Riva, 2020). In the area of…

The growing immigration wave of populations fleeing wars, famines and poverty highlights the need to create tools for welcoming children to schools in countries unknown to them. Language can represent a great barrier to inclusion and integration, causing children to suffer especially for the lack of…

Italian state schools abroad are facing a new challenge: to take the concept of inclusion of students with special education needs out of the national territory to better promote the spread of Italian culture and a solid culture of inclusion and acceptance. This study, through the special…

In this contribution we wish to present the case of a two-year training course, conducted within a Comprehensive Institute, aimed at co-design the Civic Education curriculum. The starting need was to give both an epistemological and didactic structure, and a design framework to the Citizenship…

Orienting secondary school students to an informed choice of university path is one of the university's missions. The orientation actions involve different levels of detail: from informative/dissemination to more active activities. This contribution presents an effort to orient high school students…

The pandemic period has generated an invisible “flood” of dropouts. Invalsi data for 2021 show that the number of students who have not yet reached the minimum level of basic skills has increased. This hidden form of early school leaving looks set to grow and create huge gaps across the country,…

The fragility of human existence, highlighted by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, involved different areas of life on an individual and social level. Significance of the other/s has placed the whole world faced with the new ways of future planning, including education. From a pedagogical point of…

In addition to recognizing qualities based on knowledge, skills, competences related to strictly professional aspects and personality characteristics, over the years, attention has been paid to the emotional dimension of the teacher, as competence in self-management and self-regulation of their…

The paper presents a case study on competences assessment and the introduction of “good practices”. The research was carried out in a secondary school that adopted the DADA model (Didactics for Learning Environments) and implemented it with a digital experimentation. The case study, through…

The current situation presents us with the need for a re-orientation of education towards a sustainable development, conscious and not rhetorical. In this paper, we will analyse some models and practices of environmental education that aim to go beyond sporadic experiences in green areas to create a…