{"title":"From media education to digital citizenship. Origins, perspectives and policy implementations in the school systems across Europe","authors":"Alessandro Soriani","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8557","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to describe the concept of digital citizenship, as it emerges from disciplines such as Media Education, Digital and Media Literacy and Media and Information Literacy, and how this is translated into national school innovation plans in some European countries. The first part of the article analyses the concept of media education, by carrying out an operation of disambiguation between the different disciplines often confused among them: Media Education, Digital and Media Literacy and Media and Information Literacy. The first part of the paper aims to disambiguate the various terms related to media literacy in general, often used interchangeably across the various disciplines, namely Media Education, Digital and Media Literacy and Media and Information Literacy. The second part of the paper illustrates and compares several international projects that support the formalization of competence frameworks for digital citizenship while highlighting the need to move towards a concept of technology education that also supports aspects related to active citizenship, democratic participation in society and take into account the social-relational dimension. In conclusion, national digital innovation plans for schools in Spain, Germany, UK, France and Italy will be presented with the aim of highlighting the aspects of innovation while critically reflecting on the concept of digital citizenship education therein.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131482017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Training in non-pharmacological approaches to dementia and Alzheimer","authors":"E. Luppi","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8678","url":null,"abstract":"The increase in the elderly population is leading care services to reconsider their models of intervention and their practices. When taking care of older adults suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia, it is fundamental to take into account not only their medical needs, but also any psycho-social dimension that has an impact on their lives and well-being (Kitwood 1997). This contribution presents the first results of an Erasmus+ EU project based on these assumptions. The project, called \"SALTO – Social Action for Life Quality Training and Tools\" starts by considering that the training of social workers needs to be improved in order to equip professionals with a wider range of approaches and methods to cope with Alzheimer’s and dementia. When dealing with such diseases, it is important to improve people’s quality of life, at the same time minimising the effects of behaviour-related disorders. Long-term care is the responsibility of both medical and social organisations. Elderly care is “medical” because their beneficiaries require care, whether routine or occasional, which is essential for their daily comfort; but they are also “social” because they target protection, independence, social cohesion, active citizenship and the prevention of isolation (Brune 1995, 2011; Calkins 2002; Rahman & Schnelle 2008; Shura, Siders, Dannefer 2010).","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114109159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recensione di: Giancarla Sola, La formazione originaria. Paideia, humanitas, perfectio, dignitas hominis, Bildung. Bompiani, Milano, 2016","authors":"G. Ammannati","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122561133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teacher cognition: examining teachers’ mental lives in language education","authors":"Chiara Bruzzano","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8476","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews the literature pertaining to the field of teacher cognition, which investigates the mental constructs and the practices of teachers, with a particular focus on teachers of foreign and second languages. Given the wide uptake of teacher cognition as a framework for researching teachers, this review is meant to provide a starting point for researchers to take account of the evolution of the field and its future directions. As is evident from this review, what was initially substantially a cognitively-oriented endeavour, aiming to understand what teachers held in their minds, has now morphed into research that is essentially sociocultural in nature, viewing teachers’ cognitions and practices as complex and embedded in context. This paper thus analyses research investigating the fundamental constructs of beliefs and knowledge and discusses certain limitations of such research, while examining the field’s main emerging and promising themes of teacher identity and emotions.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"366 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114501827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education: filling the mind or opening the existence? A phenomenological perspective","authors":"Vincenzo Costa","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8592","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the Relationship between existence and education is one of the most fascinating and challenging issue of phenomenology. In this contribute, we explored this topic, discussing a number of pedagogical metaphors, which define education as shaping, forming, molding. In contrast with this tradition, we argue that education is a process by which a human being opens another human being to his own possibilities, opening up the horizon of the possible, and opening the subject to the understanding of the world, himself and others, by putting him in the position to exercise his freedom, to choose which are the possibilities for him and determine who he wants to be.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125445219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being educators in extreme contexts. When practice challenges theory","authors":"F. L. Presti, Fausta Sabatano","doi":"10.6092/issn.1970-2221/8596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/8596","url":null,"abstract":"Educating in extreme contexts means accomplishing a challenge with at the same time different degrees of complexity and difficulty. Of course, the skills and professionalism of an educator (professional, teacher, children’s entertainer) who works in such contexts must have characteristics of such specialization so as, in some way, to “systemize” the emergency, its being not a random event to be managed, but a condition of the working context. Starting from these premises, this contribution intends highlighting the importance which the professional training of educators takes on in the construction of transversal skills in particularly problematic contexts, in the proposal of a phenomenological perspective of education, focused on the subjective value of experience and sense making.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"2008 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125611375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-thinking Method in Educational Work. The contribution of Piero Bertolini’s pedagogical theory","authors":"C. Palmieri","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8595","url":null,"abstract":"With the aim of clearly defining how we may best understand ‘method’ in the field of education, this paper offers an analysis of the methodological model proposed by Piero Bertolini in Per una pedagogia del ragazzo difficile (Pedagogy for the troublesome juvenile). This work is of great contemporary relevance for two reasons. First, the theoretical and anthropological assumptions are clearly stated and their intimate connection with the methodological and pragmatic aspects of educational work compellingly demonstrated. Second, the author suggests a fertile way of thinking about educational method and educational intervention that goes beyond the merely technical or ‘applied common sense’ approaches that are widespread in social work and education. I outline the key elements determining the current value of Bertolini’s way of conceptualizing and implementing the educational method, especially his specifically pedagogical focuses of attention. These methodological focuses run counter to certain contemporary tendencies, providing the basis for a solid educational professionalism that always maintains an attitude of inquiry, and that has the capacity to work with the structural uncertainty of educational situations.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121083515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The phenomenological turn in education. The legacy of Piero Bertolini’s theory","authors":"L. Caronia","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8600","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the Fifties, an Italian scholar, Piero Bertolini, provided a phenomenology-based theoretical framework for rethinking education that largely anticipated the phenomenological turn that was to impact social sciences in the following decades. By founding his proposal on Husserl’s phenomenology, Bertolini proposed a major theoretical shift in educational theory, research and practice: from “what reality (i.e. natural facts, other peoples’ behaviour, traditions, established social order, everyday routines, early years etc.) does to people” to “what people make or can make of it”. This anti-deterministic stance is probably the best known side of his work, yet Bertolini never claimed an omnipotent mind nor did he conceive the socialisation process as occurring in a social, cultural or material vacuum. On the contrary, he stressed the constitutive role of reality on whatever a mind can make of it. By outlining Bertolini’s main theoretical claims and discussing his ground-breaking contribution to the 20 th century scholarship in education, this essay introduces this special issue dedicated to the contemporary relevance of his theory of education.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131236577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The contemporary relevance of “Ragazzi difficili”. Educational dispositives and rehabilitation practices","authors":"P. Barone","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8588","url":null,"abstract":"The work of Piero Bertolini crucially influenced the pedagogical study of juvenile delinquency in Italy. His theoretical contribution changed the dominant interpretative paradigm, which had previously been informed by a psychological/medical and corrective model. By redefining rehabilitation and introducing the key notion of “intentional consciousness” as a basis for helping subjects to take responsibility for their conduct, Bertolini prompted educators to adopt a new perspective and to reconsider their own stance within their educational work with teenage offenders. Although this novel educational focus demands a different emphasis on the young person’s subjectivity, it is not enough to reflect on the “subject”: the importance attributed by Bertolini to “education as a field of experience” means that, in engaging with his “tough kids”, we must also take due account of the “materiality” of education, while remaining within a phenomenological framework. This is one aspect of the contemporary relevance of “ Per una pedagogia del ragazzo difficile ” ( Pedagogy for troublesome juvenile , 1965) for a book that speaks directly and meaningfully to the professional development of today’s new generations of education practitioners.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128951145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agency in language. Lessons from (and for) a phenomenological approach to education","authors":"M. Vaccari","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/8594","url":null,"abstract":"Phenomenological Pedagogy shares theoretical ground with many other perspectives which have brought forward the idea of the discursive constitution of reality. Although highly diverse, these perspectives may be seen to have a family resemblance in Wittgensteinian sense. In this article, I propose an overview of them, starting with a presentation of the most consolidated and authoritative traditions, which may be considered the forefathers of the phenomenological family – having promoted the idea of the constitution of reality through the discursive practices of everyday life . Some aspects of Conversation Analysis, a discipline specialized in bringing out the phenomenally high density of everyday interactions, will be discussed. Finally, various currents of the Applied Conversation Analysis will be presented to suggest how the research approach developed in these areas of concern could be of great inspiration for educational research rooted in (re-)thinking the mind, culture and language “phenomenologically”.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125710919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}