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The paper aims to retrace the choice processes and action strategies that characterized the field data collection experience in qualitative empirical research. Starting with some critical incidents related to the resistance shown by some traders in being interviewed, two examples of the process of relational construction and negotiation underlying the conduct of interviews with research participants will be described. These critical incidents provide insights for rethinking research design in other terms, which can thus be configured as a designing in progress on the basis of what happens between material and immaterial, implicit and explicit contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cities are at the centre of a renewed debate involving the plurality of fields of knowledge and national and international policy agendas, configuring themselves as places of education rich in unexpressed potential and cancelled rights. Starting from this viewpoint, this paper aims to reflect on the concept of learning cities and the pedagogical and regenerative value that urban spaces can assume, starting from their reappropriation by childhood. For this purpose, some concrete experiences insisting in the city's suburbs will be outlined, trying to systematize them to foster a resignification of places and achieve full participation of all and sundry through the construction of "competent" communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to broaden the debate on the quality and rigor of qualitative research in order to highlight factors in its conduct and implementation in education, in terms of the identification, collection and analysis of data, by which phenomena are interpreted through an iterative process that allows for movement between theory, evidence and criteria of excellence. Qualitative research is also examined from the point of view of the researcher's accountability and ability to affect the logic of decision-making as the study proceeds, a fundamental characteristic that connotes the rigor of its conduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines a case study in youth colonial literature. The Collezione Marzocco per la Gioventù Araba del Littorio (GAL) included nineteen volumes of African tales collected by Francesco Corò and Ester Panetta. The authors did not limit themselves to telling African tales but added features of a stereotyped representation of Italian colonies to their narratives. This collection helped boost the aims of primary education as they had been set by Gentile’s reform in 1923. Moreover, it reflected the aims of propaganda established at the National Conference of Children’s and Youth Literature in 1938. The declared objective of the books was to help GAL members learn the Italian language and facilitate the understanding of colonial traditions in metropolitan schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents objectives and contents of a teaching unit carried out with a 5th grade class at "Carlo Alberto" Classical and Linguistic High School in Novara, in the second semester of the school year 2021-2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two years after the recognition of the Italian Sign Language (LIS) in our country (May 19th, 2021), the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Bergamo, in the context of the University Call for Public Engagement initiatives 2023, dedicated an exhibition-conference "Signs of Art: sign languages between expression and participation" to the creative, expressive, and communicative potential of LIS. This paper, which closes the first year of activity of the column "Inclusion: school and surroundings", intends to present this initiative which arose as the result of a research-training project conducted in collaboration with the “Giacomo and Pio Manzù” State Art School of Bergamo, the Scuola Audiofonetica of Brescia and the Ente Nazionale Deaf of Milan and aimed at promoting actions to support the school inclusion processes of deaf pupils and the qualification of the teaching staff on the sign languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through an exemplification about what, under the given conditions, is possible to achieve in the direction outlined by the new Educational Guidance guidelines – regarding the theme of lifelong and lifewide learning – the contribution analyzes recent regulations, presenting a reflection about the more practical-factual aspects and the purposes to which regulations must respond. With attention to pedagogical models and value frameworks, this paper will discuss how the design of new provisions should operate according to what is defined a "secular" perspective, respectful of the norm and of the autonomous solutions that educational and training Institutions can adopt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops from an orientation project conducted in secondary school. The principles on which the project was built, and the feedback and reflections gathered through an open questionnaire at the end of the project are presented. Folktales told by a professional storyteller are a starting point of an orientation project that accompanies students towards selfawareness and the search for a compass that allows them to open up to their desires and the construction of a personal life project. Orientation is not understood as the development of competence for work or as a tool for constructing one's educational or professional biography, but as a tool for being able to imagine possible futures for oneself and the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a critical reflection on the relationship between narrative communication, literature and new media, the paper intends to present the results of a teaching activity carried out at university level in the History of Education and Communication Processes course, activated in the degree course in E-learning and Media Education at the University of Roma Tre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children's literature is an extremely effective tool for approaching the inner and emotional world of young children. A mirror with many faces reflected in the most diverse media. Even though different codes are adopted in short stories, illustrated books, comics, and animated films, one witnesses the same narrative discovery giving rise to a continuous renewal of the self. The aim of this paper is to identify the red thread that places manga, Japanese comics, on the same pedagogical level as children's literature. Ninth Art is an avant-garde space, which is why it can be considered as a tool to explore the often invisible and unknown childhood universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we consider the use of brand names in language teaching, with the aim of stimulating learners’ interest and support them in the development of linguistic and cultural competence. The study is based on an analysis of data, collected by means of a questionnaire for secondary school language teachers, to ascertain teachers’ perceptions of using brand names in language teaching practice. In order to exemplify these uses, a lesson plan focused on the introduction of brand names in the English classroom is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a 2002 paper, the author examines the many changes that have occurred or taking place in the sector of the online education. He points out two drivers - technologies and didactical model - as the main elements of the current dynamics. Finally, he indicates collaborative work as an important key for future developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving and changing the way we live and work. The goal of this technology is to create systems that can mimic certain human capabilities such as, for example, natural language processing (NLP, Natural Language Processing), generating content, composing music etc. through the use of advanced algorithms and large amounts of data. In the educational sector, AI systems such as chatbots and AI-based learning platforms are raising many inter- questionings on how they can be potentially used. This paper will present some of the most recent national and international news articles that show how heated and counterintuitive the debate is, still in its infancy, on the use of AI in school and academic tracks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme of inclusion in the school environment is increasingly defined in the name of a conquest of civilization. The paper aims to summarize the main phases that led to Italy on a regulatory and methodological level from the Deamicisian School to that of Inclusion, through literaries references such as Cuore by Edmondo De Amicis and The appeal by Alessandro D'Avenia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communicating the consequences of climate change and of the necessary mitigation and adaptation actions requires adherence to the knowledge and good practices proposed by the scientific community, the ability to involve students against indifference, humanity and balance to overcome "eco-anxiety". The paper highlights the difficulties of the school in tackling a topic that is not only technical but has significant ethical and political implications. Some inter-disciplinary educational activities are also proposed, which are aimed at encouraging the collaboration of teachers of scientific and humanistic subjects for a more effective treatment of the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on some aspects of the teachinglearning of Music History. It concentrates upon contents, strategies and methods of teaching transposition of historical-musical knowledge into the laboratory mode. The laboratory can therefore be an effective didactic strategy in guiding pupils to the ‘construction of knowledge’, a privileged space for cognitive training that can reconcile doing and knowing. The epistemological assumptions are discussed considering also the challenges that the teacher faces today in the didactic transposition process of topics, with special attention to the growing phenomenon of ‘presentism’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to further explore the link between social inclusion/exclusion and perceived diversity, the present paper reports on the validation process of AATOS, a quali-quantitative instrument adopting a non-categorical approach in the study of adolescents’ attitudes towards their perceived “different” peers. Its psychometric properties were tested with a sample of 490 secondary school students. The reliability and construct validity of the attitude scale were assessed using factor analysis and testing several validation hypotheses. Moreover, two rounds of intercoder agreement were conducted to establish the consistency of the coding categories developed for the qualitative analysis. All in all, the findings of the current study suggest that the AATOS can be considered a robust instrument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the presence and treatment of exiles and political refugees in ancient Greece. It identifies known types of exiles, investigates the perception of refugees by both countries of origin and host countries, and frames the phenomenon of exile in its legal context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to suggest how to overcome the difficulties which arise when secondary school students have to deal with too formal and abstract proofs. In fact, such difficulties emerge very often in math classes. As a result, students do not achieve a real and deep comprehension of the proofs, but limit themselves to learn them by heart. On the other hand, the introduction of proofs based on concrete and visual elements greatly helps them to gain a clear understanding of the underlying mathematical concepts. An alternative way to prove the irrationality of the square root of two will exemplify how to make proofs less formal and more semantic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides some reflections about the key-role of Cultural anthropology among the sciences, highlighting its metacritical and ethicalpolitical function. Indeed, thanks to an argumentative and metacritical procedural model ‒ now increasingly crucial in the contemporary epistemology ‒ it offers a useful method for the creation of a space for dialogue, which is also useful for pedagogy as a science- guide-and-teacher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Peer-led school improvement, or peer review, is an increasingly explored tool in school leadership. Through its focus on aspects such as self-evaluation and accountability, the peer review approach has the potential to increase collective efficacy and build the social and professional capital of school leaders and teachers. Peer review approaches are currently used in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Bulgaria, and Chile. This paper provides some example as well as discusses the principles and improvement implications of the peer review model when adopted in school settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an overall framework of numerical illiteracy (i.e., innumeracy), mathematical games can provide useful introductory tools to critical thinking and the scientific method to deal with logical and probability problems that arise in everyday life. The work provides a unified framework to a number of puzzles, already spread in several papers. The majority of them are somewhat paradoxical, i.e., of counterintuitive solution, but, in addition to being entertaining, allow us to critically and quantitatively evaluate situations, even subjective ones, related to our lives. Many cases, e.g., the controversial Monty Hall problem, a classical brain teaser, can be tackled intuitively, often with the aid of heuristics or rules of thumb, by using very simple arithmetic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philosophy for Children is a curriculum and educational strategy created by Matthew Lipman to support children developing a critical, creative, and empathic attitude through the practice of philosophical dialogue within school classes turned into "research communities." Following the interpretation given by Giuseppina D'Addelfio and Maria Vinciguerra, this paper aims to highlight its value for children’s moral education. This exploration gives also the chance to learn more about the educational theory and research method of these two authors, inspired by Antonio Bellingreri’s phenomenologicalhermeneutical pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at exploring the reasons behind China-US rapprochement giving priority to the Chinese perspective. This allows to deal with Nixon’s visit not as an isolated event but as an historical process that has been built over time in order to give international legitimacy to an ideological project. It will be noted, indeed, that the essential conditions that the Chinese communist party presupposes for the development of diplomatic relations with the United States, have been reproposed in various forms over t [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses its attention on current forms of adolescent discomfort, which in some ways shows itself in new forms in the post-pandemic era and in others stands in continuity with a preexisting discomfort, although amplified in its manifestations. It is stressed that there is a need for an intervention that is not expressed in the though important form of the individual dimension, with activation of the school psychology desk, but a systemic intervention is fundamental, creating new alliances between reference adults and transforming the school into a presidium of reflection and confrontation to better understand the adolescent world, in close connection with the networks present in the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper my reflections concern the historical recostruction effected by Alberto Mario Banti in relation to the biopolitical dynamics in the Risorgimento until the first world war, in the field of the relationship between men and women. Furtherly I consider the duel's meaning in the same historical period. Comparing these two issues with the theoretical framework delineated by Norbert Elias, I will try to offer some didactical and pedagogical suggestions that could be useful to emprove a bigger awareness of the necessity of granting full justice in the relation between genders. An effective didactic strategy can convince young men to pay attention to women's rights also by reflecting on the implications for the males' lifes due to the fact that in the past models of society for example men were forced to immense sacrifices in warfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The nature of infinity is a question that has always fascinated scientists, philosophers, and ordinary people. This discussion takes a particularly interesting form through the question of the infinite divisibility of space. In this paper, we analyze the impact of modern physics on this question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the writing of her thesis dissertation to the present, Edith Stein’s thought has accompanied many scholars, both those who have cited her explicitly and those who have not. In this work, after a brief biographical overview, we will reflect on the relationships that exist between the thought of Edith Stein and other authors such as: Abraham H. Maslow, Carl Rogers and Howard E. Gardner. This paper will identify some theses on the concept of empathy offered by Edith Stein in relation to other twentieth-century authors who followed her. The purpose is to honor the ideas of this great philosopher and to highlight both her perspicacity and farsightedness with respect to psycho-pedagogical studies and the current cultural vision centering the educational process on the topic of Inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 19th century, actual infinity entered the domain of mathematics thanks to the work of Georg Cantor. Before him, in the same century, Bernard Bolzano had thematised the possibility of introducing actual infinite numbers. The theories of these two authors are well known and well studied. There are, on the other hand, three mathematicians who conceived the existence of infinite quantities in act and whose ideas are less well known. They are Paul Dubois-Reymond, Otto Stolz and Giuseppe Veronese. In this paper, I will present their conceptions, preceded, however, by some observations on the elements at infinity of projective geometry that had existed in mathematics since before the 19th century, but whose complete theory was offered in the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guidance, tailored to personal needs, is essential in shaping each person's educational and vocational path. Targeted orientation can contribute to the construction of personalized itineraries that enhance the individual's talents, expectations, and aspirations in a way that offers the possibility of pursuing goals consistent with one's inclinations. The Ministry of Education's recent guidelines aim to strengthen the link between the first and second cycles of education and training, creating a structured and coordinated guidance system that recognizes students' talents, aptitudes and inclinations. The aim is to accompany students on a personal, vocational and educational life path. This paper offers a first commentary on this, underlining the importance of the autonomy dimension of educational institutions in the next phase of implementation of the guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]