This work presents the results of an experimental research in a single group, which involved 1350 students and 120 laboratory teachers attending the 5th cycle of the specialization course for didactic support activities for kindergartens, primary, first and secondary schools. And high school of the…

This paper presents the results of a survey conducted with a sample of teachers attending the specialization course for special education teachers of the University of Florence, with teaching experience with pupils with autism, who participated in the administration of a questionnaire developed by…

As an educational and transformative context, the school has the responsibility to prepare each student for adult social life. This requires action on teacher training to develop an inclusive culture together with effective school policies and practices, promoting a school culture that values…

In view of the Interministerial Decree 182/2020, school planning requires a bio-psychosocial vision of learning and participation, within a full inclusion perspective. Whit this in mind, a quasi-experimental research project is presented. The project is aimed to indicate effective methods of…

The article proposes a study based on a narrative approach that uses Life Stories as a data collection tool to provide teachers with the opportunity to connect events, contexts, emotions and choices related to students with disabilities, thus building a collective memory. This is based on the…

The piece aims to reflect on the connections between the Individualized Educational Plan and the dimensions of university and professional orientation. The University of Perugia has activated a service of pedagogical-didactic advice, designed to offer support in the acquisition and/ or refinement of…

In order to guide the teachers in the dialogue with the bio-psycho-social perspective in articulated training planning for the benefit of the pupil with disabilities, the working group of the Center on New Technologies for Disability and Inclusion (CNTHI) of the University of Salento, in June 2020,…

This paper intends to reflect on the relationship between disability, life project, adulthood and educational orientation in schools. On the basis of a qualitative analysis of the interviews with privileged witnesses, it highlights the critical aspects and the potentialities of educational project.…

The training of competent professionals, who in their role as general or specialized teachers, support pupils in the development of their affective-relational, cognitive and communication skills, as well as in the acquisition of autonomy, is an essential factor for the design and the management of…

This paper aims to analyze the educational practices undertaken by a socio-educational community of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), which is the most representative case of secondary homeschooling. The educational services hereby described are aimed at adolescents exposed to the risk of early leaving…

The contribution presents a study on the bio-psycho-social perspective of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in the Italian school context. In fact, if the ICF instrument has been present in our country for almost twenty years, the complexity of its paradigm…

Health emergency Covi-19 has totally modified people’s everyday life, changing their habits, relationships and lifestyle to which children are not unrelated. Childhood cannot be considered a “shadow cone” unware about the stressful and unconscious reality’s events of the society surrounding…

The article presents the "Classi in rete" teaching model, which was tested in Québec and is based on the pedagogical concept of class as Knowledge Building community. The model was brought to Italy for the first time in the context of Abruzzo small schools. Following a design-based research…

Prolegomena: the pleasure principle in making art at school. The pedagogical debate that is taking place about this current topic, crucial but often overlooked, collects a multitude of stimuli. These stimuli have matured in the most disparate disciplinary fields of knowledge (neuroscience,…

This paper focuses on an initiative to communicate permanent censuses and foster statistical culture, promoted by Istat thanks to the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, called The Permanent Census on school desks. Launched in 2019 with the aim of developing in young people an in-depth…

There are many pedagogical research experiences that in recent years have focused on the educational value of Service Learning (SL), opening, heuristic glances to significant experiences in academia. A new line of research on the subject, looks at the intentional design of SL activities mediated by…

How society is changing respect to the introduction of recent technologies and how the school can manage this change are questions that this collective survey giving voice to the educating society from kindergarten to ministerial leadership. The Grounded Theory path, in this case using Lego Serious…

Educational gamification, which consists in using game elements to influence learning-related behaviours and attitudes, with the ultimate aim of fostering the formation of positive learning habits, has become increasingly applied in recent years. There are many game elements and mechanics to be used…

Pedagogical research on guidance over the last twenty years has finally shown that, in most contexts, the use of training guidance models has supplanted informative and/or psycho-attitudinal models. Among the formative models, the narrative orientation (Batini, Zaccaria, 2000) and, subsequently,…

This paper aims to compare the perceptions of the work objectives achievement among Italian teachers based on the didactic method and professional role (owner / substitute) in the period between February and April 2021. The pandemic imposed school lockdown around the world. In Italy, teaching…

The School and University were pushed into the era of distance teaching and learning (Dad) to ensure training for students even in the lockdown period due to the Covid-19. This experience forced teachers to a reconversion of traditional teaching into online environments not always known. This…

With the spread of online channels, the way in which the information is produced and used have changed. This also applies to the debate that accompanies school issues and, in particular, to standardized assessment. INVALSI with its annual surveys on learning achievement offers at the media a wide…

This contribution aims at reflecting on a revision of the idea of evaluation in compulsory schooling, starting from the perspective of Assessment as Learning, according to which the evaluation is itself a didactic action, a constant and progressive learning tool. It is described a part of the…

Through the self-evaluation process, the student makes a judgment on his or her learning, analyzing the differences between the expected objectives and the results obtained. However, it is the teacher who must educate the student in self-assessment through self-analysis tools, such as cognitive…

In online courses, the tutoring activities are relevant for the learners’ training; they affect the course quality and imply creating dynamic and active online learning environments. The research aims to define a model based on a structured and data-driven tutoring system to identify homogeneous…

The paper presents an innovative development model for the creation of training courses delivered on digital support and structured in minimal modular, traceable and reusable learning units. The idea of granularity of educational content forms the basis of all the phases foreseen for the realization…

The main objective of the proposal is to explore limits and potentialities of the evaluative field research at the time of Covid-19, taking as example the evaluation of the project "La Gazzetta Olimpica, journal of the school and the neighborhood". The project was born with the aim of supporting the…

In this paper, after analyzing through the international literature the curricular, didactic, and organizational forms that can be adopted in a multi-class, we propose an insight based on interpretative approaches of the situations observed in the classes adhering to the Movimento Nazionale delle…

The present study aims to examine the relationships between affective dimensions (psychological distress and levels of experienced anxiety and anger), relational dimensions (interaction with the university context) and the risk of drop-out in a sample of 128 university students (88.8% women, average…

For a long time, the school has included the linguistic impoverishment of students among its negative aspects. And this reality is closely linked to the difficulty of reasoning, of arguing and - more generally - to the difficulty in developing independent critical thinking. To overcome this problem…

In recent years, concern about the reckless exploitation of natural resources and the violation of environmental resources has been increasingly growing, fuelling global political and economic debate. It is evident that the current scenario is the result of centuries of ill-considered human…

In Europe, the reference for the digital competence profile of teachers is the framework of the DigCompEdu (Digital Competence Framework for Educators). The goal is to support teachers in monitoring their digital pedagogical competence, organized into eight competence profiles and six development…

Distance Learning - DL - launched with the sanitary emergency by Covid-19 suggests the possibility to design virtual learning environments that allow all students to reach the highest possible level of learning, considering their social, biological, and cultural characteristics to make them feel an…

Space and time of human sociality include that of the sociality required by formal and informal learning: it appears crucial to understand the ways in which technological tools, environments and devices allow the creation of relationships and communications capable of enriching the experience of…

National Guidelines for Lifelong Guidance (MIUR, 2014) indicate the need to strengthen web resources to combine "face-to-face" orientation with e-guidance mode and respond to new guidance needs. In the current context, in which the school needs to adopt remote teaching methods, the institutional…

This contribution proposes a study on the ways in which climate change is perceived by young people aged between 16 and 20 who live in the capitals of two cities in Southern Italy, Palermo, the capital of Sicily and Catanzaro, the capital of Calabria. Through ethnographic interviews, based on the…

This article describes the results of a research that involved 814 school operators on the inclusive processes activated in the school during the lockdown. The survey, conducted through the administration of a questionnaire, was aimed at understanding if and how much DaD has succeeded in ensuring…

The historical moment we are experiencing inevitably traces the way for an educational, social, cultural, economic, health and political change. Accepting the challenge of our times, this article intends to read the current "crisis" as a problem of commitment and responsibility on the part of…

Teachers’ professional growth and competences development have been at the center of national and international debate for several years. Numerous European documents have contributed to strengthening and spreading the culture of continuous training and the professional growth of teachers and…

In museums, the stratification of the realities of life and its historical process are preserved and ask to be understood. Every research grows by chasing the traces of the past, becoming a story in which we bring down the lived experience of our young people, giving birth in them the need to…

The paper examines the transformations that distance learning has introduced in the learning environment, with particular reference to the fragmentation of educational interventions (alternation between face-to-face teaching and online teaching) and the consequent impoverishment of social relations.…

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement interventions understood as continuous performance improvement, and empowerment, i.e., a value orientation for working in the community and a theoretical model for comprehending the process and consequences of efforts to exert…

The school in the third millennium was induced to reflect on the transformation of the entire school environment and on the change in teaching, when the traditional slate blackboard was replaced, replaced by the interactive multimedia one, the books on paper were integrated or replaced with versions…

Aim of the paper is to offer a reflection on emergency educational planning, analyzing the project documentation developed by the nursery and preschools of Rome in the first period of the health emergency of Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the paper presents the results of the first phase of…

The educational research is essential to deal with difficult and emergency situations, to reflect on relationships between school and family, and to qualify the process of distance education (Ciarnella & Santangelo, 2020; Nirchi, 2020; Perissinotto & Bruschi, 2020; Moretti & Morini,…

The Greek etymology of the word “crisis” indicates in the word “opportunity” the most appropriate translation into the Italian language. This was the horizon of the experience conducted with a group of students from a secondary school of first and second grade. Attempts have been made to…

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodologies based on machine learning and deep learning is now present in all aspects of our daily lives, including our education. The world of education, at any level, has to consider the predominant role that AI plays in the modern world. In April 2018,…

Prensky (2001) coined the term digital immigrant indicating one who resists digital change. The European Digital Agenda since 2014 has defined various measures and allocated resources to reduce the phenomenon of the digital divide (AgID) . Today, it is increasingly urgent to develop a new skill in…

The essay proposes the analysis of the potential that an Artificial Intelligence System applied to teaching and developed within the academic context, it can represent a tool for accompaniment to improve the student learning and the teacher’s educations in e learning. The aim is to obtain a system…

We present the case study of a project funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture in which the partners were selected to experiment an urban regeneration process using AI and Big Data, together with art and design. A consortium was formed to introduce IAQOS, an experience in community AI which was…

To reduce and prevent the risk of drop-out, we believe it is useful to set up specific Ongoing University Guidance interventions conducted on a digital platform and based on affective, cognitive and metacognitive self-assessment processes for integration into the university context, with timely…

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 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…

The study presents a research aimed at monitoring and analysing, through Learning Analytics (LA), the main actions that students / trainees undertake online to reflect and respond to different training needs. The analysis, which emerged from a careful and systematic reading of the data, provided…

The paper presents the results of a research carried out by Indire in the field of work based learning. Focusing on the development of the competencies for the citizen and the worker of the future, we selected some experiences oriented to engaged the students in the develop innovative and creative…

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…

This article presents the research on education for active listening and positive didactic communication. Listening education allows students to reach a so-called "reflective" phase which favors the meeting and dialogue in the educational sphere to improve the ability to share knowledge and an…

In Italy the standardized evaluation is always very lively debated, especially during the period of administration of INVALSI tests within the schools. To map the opinions and the beliefs published in the mainstream press and on the main websites and to follow the trend over time of these an…

The complexity of world of work involves the exposure to health and safety risks and to organizational or psychosocial risks too. A particular risk linked to the workplace takes the name of bullying, it has known in the 90s as mobbing, and it refers to a set of factors linked to acts of violence…

The fear of the Other and the hate speech are phenomena increasingly and socially widespread: this makes necessary an educational response to promote intercultural competences. The school could become a place to promote non-discriminatory practices and to reduce prejudice, which is usually about…

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…

Since its debut in Western culture, theatre has brought conflict to the stage: with oneself, the other and the context. The theatre configures itself as a place that keeps away the typical background noises of the network. It represents an instrument of authenticity, made up of acts and…

The social role of women is undoubtedly changed over time. These changes result in a new female identity and take on new psychosocial meanings, both for the women themselves and for their life contexts. The results of investigations conducted over the past ten years provide an interesting picture of…

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…

Educational agencies are going through a difficult transition period, with important consequences in terms of de-legitimacy of the social mandate historically assigned to the school. The reason of this widespread uneaseness can be traced in the fact that today we live in a complex system where…

The paper arises from the results of the PhD research on the identification and validation of non-formal and informal learning, in the framework of the adult education system in Italy and on the use of the ePortfolio of competencies, conducted at the Department of Education, University of Roma Tre,…

Today's school system suffers from many problems, in this article the comparison is made with the Postdam model, where we see not only a school with different laws, but also a different attention to the discomfort, treated through the eurhythmic method.

Digital culture transforms citizens into people who are aware of digital phenomena and dynamics wich have changed, and will change more and more, processes, habits, lifestyles. What is the role of the Public Administration and School in accompanying young people and adults to this new journey? How…

This final degree proyect is base don a topic that currently has a great relevance: Promotion of the inclusion of students with disabilies. The main objetive is to promote the social inclusion of students with disabilities. First, we will choose four types of disabilities from the most common ones,…

A lo largo de los últimos años se han producido un sinfín de avances en las llamadas Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación, (TICs). Su incorporación a diferentes ámbitos, han jugado un decisivo papel. Por este motivo, la comunidad educativa no puede mantenerse fuera de estos…

For three years (1949-1950-1951), Maria Montessori was candidate to Nobel Price for Peace without succeeding. These Events, which have not been sufficiently studied in the personal and intellectual biography of Maria Montessori, are reconstructed in the present essay, basing on the documents from…