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L’orizzonte neuroscientifico corrobora le Scienze dell’Educazione compor-tando un reale ripensamento dei processi di insegnamento e apprendimento in favore di percorsi educativi di qualità. Sondando il carattere dialogico della Neuroeducazione si riportano alcune evidenze neuroscientifiche che affermano l’unicità di ogni cervello; si analizzano le ricadute neuropedagogiche per poi volgere lo sguardo ad un’indagine svolta con un gruppo di 1428 insegnanti della regione Sicilia per analizzare le loro prassi educativo-didattiche fondate nell’orizzonte neuroeducativo. Il processo di analisi ha evidenziato alcuni dati significativi che lasciano intendere una necessaria opera di formazione in fa-vore dei principi neuroeducativi. The neuroscientific horizon corroborates the Educational Sciences by involving a real rethinking of teaching and learning processes in favor of quality educational paths. By probing the dialogic character of Neuroeducation, some neuroscientific evidence is reported that affirm the uniqueness of each brain; the neuropedagogical repercussions are analyzed and then turned to a survey carried out with a group of 1428 teachers from the Sicily region to analyze their educational and didactic practices based on the neuroeducational horizon. The analysis process highlighted some significant data that suggest a necessary training work in favor of neuroeducational principles.

The Covid-19 pandemic has questioned communication and inter-relational methods. During the period in question, educators questioned how to dialogue with children and how to nurture the relationship at a distance. The social sharing of the educational task, the support and accompaniment to parents has proved to be fertile ground for promoting the global growth of the person. The nursery-family relationship and the storytelling activity - declined according to the type of Digital Storytelling - constitute the main axes of the research described below, conducted at a distance with 20 pairs of parents of 20 children attending a municipal nursery school in the city of Palermo. Through the research process, the aim was to enhance parents’ reflective competence, narrative competence and critical re-elaboration supported using ICT. The methodology implemented is that relating to the model of Alterio and McDrury (2003). To evaluate the acquisition of reflexive and narrative skills and critical re-elaboration, three focus group sessions and the evaluation sheet of the quality and validity of digital storytelling, created by parents with the support of the nursery educators, were used.

La spinta fornita dagli studi Brain-based comporta la riflessione e l’auto-riflessione sulle prassi e sulle scelte metodologico-didattiche. Il contributo inquadra una ricerca avviata nel 2021, presso l’Università di Palermo, finalizzata alla definizione di strategie e strumenti per la valutazione di attività neurodidattiche per lo sviluppo delle competenze metodologico-didattiche dell’insegnante rispetto a cinque aree di interesse neurodidattico: trasversale, cognitiva, socio-emotiva, espressiva e motoria. The boost provided by Brain-based studies entails reflection and self-reflection on methodological-didactic practices and choices. The contribution frames a research project started in 2021, at the University of Palermo, aimed at defining strategies and tools for the evaluation of neurodidactic activities for the development of the teacher's methodological-didactic competences with respect to five areas of neurodidactic interest: transversal, cognitive, socio-emotional, expressive, and motor.

How neuroscientific research can help educational sciences and education and understand cognitive pro-cesses is the challenge of those involved in educational neuroscience. Neuroscience seems to be an invisible matrix of other sciences and practices, and it is easy to be tempted to fall into a neurocentric logic to understand aspects with evidence considered more authoritative than others. The NeuroTeaching approach aims to present current scientific debates and the prospective impact of the field of educational neuroscience with the science of teaching. The present paper aims to explore teaching methods through a framework based on recent neuroscientific findings in real contexts, such as a school classroom. The evidence gathered can also foster new processes of understanding learning.

Nell’a.a. 2021/2022 si è svolto il progetto di ricerca “Prevenzione degli incidenti domestici e promozione dell'attività fisica over 60”, al fine di promuovere il benessere di 8 gruppi di persone over 60 (218 in totale) della provincia di Palermo. In seno al progetto, la somministrazione del questionario DigComp ha permesso l’individuazione di un gruppo di esperimento (22 persone) e uno di controllo (24 persone) aventi un’età media di 70 anni (cluster sampling). Il gruppo con scarse competenze digitali ha seguito i moduli formativi a distanza, mentre il gruppo che ha mostrato buone competenze digitali ha partecipato alle sessioni formative in presenza. Si è ipotizzato che al termine dell’intervento sperimentale sarebbero migliorate le seguenti competenze digitali: utilizzo delle tecnologie digitali per l’interazione sociale e conoscenza delle regole dell’ambiente digitale. Il post test ha mostrato un incremento delle competenze digitali e l’acquisizione delle medesime competenze prefissate. 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 DigComp questionnaire allowed the identification of an experiment group (22 people) and a control group (24 people) with an average age of 70 years (cluster sampling). The group with low digital skills followed the learning modules in a digital environment, while the group that showed good digital skills participated in the face-to-face training sessions. It was assumed that at the end of the experimental intervention the following digital skills would be improved: use of digital technologies for social interaction and knowledge of the rules of the digital environment. The post test showed an increase in digital skills and the acquisition of the same pre-established skills.

L’interesse verso la tematica dell’invecchiamento attivo è in costante crescita, tanto a livello accademico che istituzionale, in ambito internazionale e nazionale. In quest’ottica l’OMS ha definito e sviluppato l’idea dell’Active Ageing (AA) come risposta concreta all’incremento della popolazione over 60 e alle sfide socioeconomiche ad esso connesse. Tuttavia, a livello nazionale si registrano ancora alcune criticità rispetto allo sviluppo di programmi integrati, diffusi e sistematici. In questo scenario si inserisce il progetto di ricerca “Prevenzione degli incidenti domestici e promozione dell'attività fisica delle persone over 60” promosso e coordinato dal partenariato tra l’ASP 6 di Palermo e l’Università degli Studi di Palermo, nell’anno 2021/2022. Nell’ambito di detto progetto si è ipotizzato che un intervento formativo, basato sulla metodologia del Brain Gym, possa incrementare nei 212 partecipanti over 60 la consapevolezza della possibilità di incorrere in un incidente domestico, la coordinazione motoria e i livelli di attivazione cognitiva (relativamente all’attenzione e alla memoria). Tramite il dispiego di una lista di controllo e di una costante osservazione sistematica si è registrato un effettivo miglioramento degli aspetti citati.

The higher education evolution passes through the enhancement of employability. It is necessary to focus on the construction of professional skills on the one hand, and on the other to create a bridge with the work field. An exploratory survey was conducted with stakeholders for the internship of the SPPEfF Department of the University of Palermo in the A.Y. 2019/2020 with the aim of: identifying the skills valued in working contexts in order to modify the study plans of the departmental courses for the A.Y. 2020/2021

Family and school are the educational agencies that play a primary role in the child development. Therefore, an educational partnership based on values and responsibilities sharing and on the mutual respect of competences is necessary. This idea is reflected in Bronfenbrenner (1979; 2001), Epstein (2018), Eccles and Harold (2013) theoretical/methodological models and in the Pati (2019) pedagogical-epistemic reflection. Starting from this theoretical framework, it is considered necessary to investigate the point of view of teachers, parents and managers in order to provide a clear vision of the practices of educational co-responsibility in reference to the Italian school context. We predicted that at the end of the research action we would observe a significant increase in the process of reflection on educational practices based on educational co-responsibility and an improvement in the relationship between school and family through shared and co-designed educational co-responsibility practices. The survey, which began in January 2019, included an exploratory phase aimed at the validation of two structured tools: Questionnaire on co-responsibility-Families and Questionnaire on co-responsibility-Teachers. The second phase, currently in progress, is based on the administration of the validated tools on the national territory. The recipients of the survey are the teachers and parents of students attending the first cycle school. In addition, following the adoption of the Mixed Method, it is intended to conduct a semi-structured interview with school managers capable of detecting qualitative data that can expand and complete the data collected. The quantitative analysis of the data, carried out through the use of the SPSS software, showed a good reliability of the tools and allowed the improvement of the same. Furthermore, a Partnership Force Model has been built which will guide the co-design phase.

In planning the educational offer, the educator/teacher must consider the emerging neuroscientific evidence concerning the multi-codic language of the mind and the peculiarity of each evolutionary trajectory. After framing the different multi-codic influences that characterize the formation of brain configurations (two examples are reported: one linked to the cognitive sphere and one linked to motor skills and corporeality), the consequent peculiarity of each student or person in training is underlined. In the second part of the paper, a survey conducted with 440 teachers of the first and second cycle school during the second semester of the A.S. 2020/2021. The survey was conducted through the administration of the “Questionnaire for the detection of neuro-didactic practices” and aims to measure the level of knowledge and use of the neuro-educational and neuro-didactic principles in the teaching practice of teachers. With respect to the five areas investigated (transversal, cognitive, socio-affective, linguistic and praxic-motor), the most significant results are discussed regarding the programming of activities and teaching material, taking into consideration some neuro-educational principles concerning the multi-codic functioning of the brain.

Il flusso migratorio dei Minori Stranieri non Accompagnati è un fenomeno globale e soprattutto negli ultimi anni ha evidenziato la necessità di sviluppare e creare dei modelli inclusivi che si basino tanto sull’implementazione di norme regolamentarie quanto sull’intervento civico-sociale. La presa in carica del minore si è concretizzata nella creazione della figura del Tutore Volontario. Attraverso l’analisi dei bisogni del minore e dell’istanza pedagogica del Tutore, si analizza la formazione del Tutore Volontario in relazione all’esperienza realizzata a Palermo dal Garante dell’Infanzia e dell’Adolescenza del Comune di Palermo. The migratory flow of unaccompanied foreign minors is a global fact and in recent years has highlighted the need to develop and create inclusive models that are based both on the implementation of regulatory rules and on civic-social intervention. Taking charge of the minor took the form of creating the figure of the Volunteer Guardian. Through the analysis of the minor’s needs and the pedagogical instance of the Guardian, the training of the Volunteer Guardian is analyzed in relation to the experience carried out in Palermo by the Childhood and Adolescence Protection Office of the municipality of Palermo.

Il presente contributo si focalizza su una sfida educativa impellente della contemporaneità: la form-azione della cittadinanza digitale. A partire dal Quadro di riferimento Europeo per le competenze digitali dei cittadini, viene svolta una riflessione basata sull’interconnessione tra il Capability approach e le competenze digitali. Il Capability Approach, sviluppando un orizzonte di senso eticoeconomico-politico basato su: “functioning”, capability” e “agency”, completa e orienta il framework teorico-metodologico dettato dai riferimenti normativi europei sullo sviluppo delle digital skills. L’indagine sulle digital skills può essere un’opportunità per orientare l’azione formativa, in riferimento allo sviluppo delle competenze digitali, verso la piena libertà e il potenziamento della coscienza critica dei cittadini nell’effettuare delle scelte per il raggiungimento di standard formativo-professionali desiderabili. This paper focuses on an urgent educational challenge of the contemporary age: the form-action of digital citizenship. Starting from the European reference framework for citizens’ digital skills, the authors develops a reflection based on the interconnection between digital skills and Capability Approach. The latter, developing an ethical-economic-political sense horizon based on: “functioning”, “capability” and “agency”, completes and directs the theoretical-methodological framework dictated by normative requirements on the development of digital skills. The reflection built can be an opportunity to direct the training action, in order to promote the development of digital skills, towards full freedom and the enhancement of the critical awareness of citizens in making choices for the achievement of desirable educational-professional standards.