8° Seminario Internazionale sulla Ricerca Empirica in Educazione: «Il contributo della ricerca educativa per lo sviluppo di un atteggiamento scientifico del docente»

Abstract

On 14 and 15 December 2018 at the Department of Education of the University Roma Tre has been held the 8th International Seminar on the methodology of educational research «The contribution of educational research for the development of a scientific attitude of the teacher». The seminar, conceived and organized from the ECPS Journal (Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies, https: // www.ledonline.it/ecps-journal), was organized into four work sessions: «Research educational and teacher training: problems and prospects»,«The contribution of empirical-experimental research», «The contribution of non-experimental scientific research», «Theoretical research and empirical research: the space of concepts», a round table and a specific section with programmed communications. At the center of the discussion was the analysis of procedures, strategies and tools that educational research can make available to teachers, especially through formal training (first training and in-service training), in order to promote and develop a «habit mental» – in a Deweyan sense – exquisitely of a scientific type, able therefore to presumably characterize, in turn, the education of its students. The initiative, as in all his previous editions, he recorded a large participation of educationalists,  psychologists and sociologists of education, as well as experts in neighboring scientific fields and teachers disciplinary.