The dimensions of body and “presence” are decisive in the educational relation, both for students and teachers, allow to understand and manage the unpredictability of the situations, enhance engagement and motivation, contribute to educational success and didactic innovation. The paper…

Skills enabling individuals to face life challenges are crucial in a rapidly changing world. The European Union promotes the LifeComp framework in a lifelong learning perspective. However, how can individuals learn to unlock their potential, to self-regulate and deal with complexity? To what degree…

In Italy, during the Fascist period, political confinement was added to the common confinement intended to exclude the opponents of the regime from civil society, relegating them to inaccessible places with almost no communication routes. Among these localities is Ventotene, a small island in 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:…

Today, digital tools are an integral part of our social fabric, and this leads us to reflect on two interrelated aspects: transformation and awareness. By transformation, we are referring to those spaces where social interaction takes place, and which, thanks to the continual growth of internet…

In the last decades there has been a revolution in the didactic-evaluation field, this revolution - still in progress - is called Distance Learning (DAD). This new method of teaching/learning became necessary in the pandemic period 2020-2021. It presents, as a fundamental aspect, the redefinition of…

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…

Distance learning has "rained" on us. The first sensations are not positive, after all, simulating at a distance what is normally done in presence cannot be the solution. We are witnessing a revolution in the Teaching-Learning relationship, everyone will have to "redefine" the personal consolidated…

The research is of an exploratory nature and constitutes an initial study phase describing the digital habits and behaviour of the teaching staff during the period in which the 2007-2013 PON was in effect in the Regions covered by the Convergence Objective (Calabria, Campania, Puglia e Sicilia). The…

The involvement of teachers in training is essential to produce an expansion of their professionalism and an improvement of the education service. Give suggestions, requests to change the existing instruments is a delicate operation, because it does not impact only on the cognitive dimension of…

The technological, socio-cultural and economic changes and the institutional development are forcing the Universities to rethink their teaching and learning strategies. Until a few years ago (in the presence of other conditions), these strategies were the most appropriate and, for this reason, the…

The involvement of teachers in training is essential to produce an expansion of their professionalism and an improvement of the education service. Give suggestions, requests to change the existing instruments is a delicate operation, because it does not impact only on the cognitive dimension of…

Italian school is wondering about the changes to be introduced to improve the effectiveness of educational paths. These questions highlight the need to promote a culture of evaluation approaches by adopting new assessment on which to base educational decision-making processes in order to improve the…

With the advent of the web, the way we produce and manage knowledge has been profoundly changed. This technological development makes available ever more versatile instruments that are able to access and manage increasing quantities of diversified information. It is important to observe these new…