{"title":"The Montessori theory in the “No Schoolbag” model. Formativity of materials and of the educational environment","authors":"Adriana Schiedi","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12199","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this contribution is to show the “outdated” relevance of Montessori pedagogy in the “No Schoolbag” (Senza Zaino, or “SZ”) model. Adopting some fundamental elements of Montessori’s activism, this model advocates a school in the fullest meaning of Schole, as a place for dialogue, development and work, otium and negotium, commitment to study and the pleasure of knowledge, where the discipline of freedom, as applied to experience and filtered by emotions, is indispensable. In doing so, it rejects the idea of school being based on educational intellectualism. Rather it is an indirect educational path in which the experience of reality, rather than empty words, shapes the child's mind, developing an inner order that originates from its external counterpart, with the result that the child feels like an active participant, belonging to a welcoming, hospitable and motivating community. Drawing on the Montessori theory, the “No Schoolbag” model positions itself as a pedagogy of our time, but endowed with an ancient, rigorous, inclusive, and supportive heart.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134070169","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":"Maria Montessori and Embodied Education: current proposal in preschool education","authors":"A. Ceciliani","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12195","url":null,"abstract":"The Montessorian proposal for childhood education appears highly modern and relevant in relation to the development of both motor skills and cognitive functions (Shivji, 2016;), strongly supported by neurosciences’ embodied theories (Roessingh, H. & Bence, M. 2018)), and the increasing wellbeing problem related to childhood (Pate et al, 2014; Ross, 2012). This review analyses Maria Montessori’s modern educational vision, in light of the emerging needs of today’s children. The contribution reviews existing literature focusing on body and movement, but connected with cognitive, emotional and well-being aspects, which are critical in preschool education, both for educators/teachers (Atli, 2016; Akkerman, 2014; Lillard, 2011), and for school reform policies (Lillard, 2019).","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121187183","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":"Book review of: Silvano Calvetto, “Eravamo liberi in un paese devastato”. Formazione e assistenza ai reduci tra il 1945 e il 1947, Roma, Anicia, 2020","authors":"M. Desideri","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124122643","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":"Book review of: Fulvio De Giorgi, La rivoluzione transpolitica. Il ’68 e il post-’68 in Italia, Viella, Roma, 2020","authors":"Carmen Betti","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127503466","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":"Multiple discrimination and the risk of cultural impoverishment. Considerations regarding the pedagogical challenges of the complex society","authors":"Irene Biemmi, Emiliano Macinai","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12644","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview of some of the major themes addressed by the Multidisciplinary Course on Human Rights Education coordinated by the author for the Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literature, and Psychology - FORLILPSI) of the University of Florence in collaboration with the Italian Committee for UNICEF. The main thrust of the course and therefore of these notes was and is valorisation of children’s rights education as a resource for combating the various types of discrimination that underlie processes of exclusion and social marginalization and that increase risks of educational poverty and cultural deprivation. More in detail, we analyze that set of cultural practices, behaviours, and beliefs that generate sexist and racial prejudices and lead to systematic violation of the rights of social groups, which thus suffer processes of inferiorisation.","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":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115411251","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":"Teachers’ perceptions of the role of technologies for inclusion. Results from a special needs teacher training course","authors":"L. Fedeli","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/11585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/11585","url":null,"abstract":"The study focuses on the Information and Communication Technology course run within the “Special Needs Teacher Training Specialization Course” developed by the University of Macerata (Italy) in the academic year 2018-2019. Specifically, the case, framed in a qualitative approach, aims at analysing how special needs trainee teachers (henceforth referred to as trainee teachers) approach the use of technology with inclusive perspectives and what factors can influence their decision making process in using technology. The case highlights what connections can be drawn between the design and development of the Information and Communication Technology course and the trainee teachers' perceptions in direction of the UDL principles.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114687793","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":"Localities in critical literacy practice: a critical review of the frameworks","authors":"Nita Novianti, Angela Thomas, V. To","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/11471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/11471","url":null,"abstract":"A large number of frameworks and models have been created to help translate the highly philosophical theory of critical literacy into practice. How these frameworks have been translated into classroom practice is an area much unexplored. The present study critically reviewed the frameworks of critical literacy applied in the classroom practices of language arts and language education within the last twenty years. Adapting the classification put forward by Luke and Woods (2009), the review divides the frameworks into critical pedagogy, textual, and practical approaches. The application of the frameworks identified in this review defies the rigid divisions between critical and textual approaches because text still plays an important role. The additional category of practical approaches is created to refer to frameworks that combine the critical and textual approaches and include more key tenets of critical literacy with a stronger focus on classroom practices. The more recent frameworks are increasingly embracing more key tenets of critical literacy, but the tenet of localities still has no place in these frameworks. Nonetheless, a small number of classroom practices have carefully included localities in the design and enactment of critical literacy.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125641845","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":"From the analysis of support teachers training needs to the creation of effective training courses. Reflections from an exploratory survey","authors":"V. Pennazio, Franco Bochicchio","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/11592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/11592","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a reflection on the training needs of teachers who attend the specialization course for support activities. As adults in training, these teachers need to acquire theoretical and practical competences through teaching methods that cannot be compared to those generally used with university students. Starting from the data extrapolated from research conducted in the University of Genoa (a.y. 2013/2014) and in the University of Macerata (a.y. 2016/2017) the paper provides an overview of emerging needs and teaching methods that can be used in university training practices aimed at professional adults.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114948799","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":"Pronti partenza e via! Il nido si racconta: Il laboratorio di sviluppo professionale degli educatori dei nidi PAC del Comune di Napoli","authors":"Marianna Capo","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/11384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/11384","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution proposes the training model and the results of a research course - training in the use of digital story telling made, under commission of the Cooperative Gesco, with the educators of the Pac nurseries of Naples. Using a narrative and autobiographical methodology and starting from the analysis of the demand and training needs of educators, detected through the administration of two semi- structured questionnaires, the intervention provided for the implementation of a professional development path for coordinators and educators of PAC nursery. On the basis of the training needs identified, a workshop course has been proposed to stimulate narrative and critical reflection on educational practices and professional experience. The sharing of the digital stories of the nurseries has represented the occasion for a good exchange of practices, from which a generative comparison has been derived that has allowed to intercept those educational processes that can escape the observational practice.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116031750","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":"Inquietudine e disincanto tra i banchi: Un anno di scuola di Giani Stuparich dal racconto al film","authors":"Sabrina Maria Fava","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12500","url":null,"abstract":"Recent historiographical perspectives dedicated to collective school memory have opened new research avenues in the way the cultural industry depicted the school, teachers, and students. This contribution follows such direction and intends to tackle the process of stratified transformations that interwove around Giani Stuparich’s narrative Un anno di scuola, (1929). This literary work resulted from a dialogue between the individual memory of the writer and the collective memory of youth during the first decade of 1900. Shared and individual memories within the cultural context of a Mitteleuropean and irredentist Trieste leave their traces in the literary work, and at the same time expand through time in the numerous editions of the text, as well as in the movie by Franco Giraldi released in 1977. The description of the school, teachers, and students is transformed into a space for imagination, where writing and re-writing influence each other, thus modifying the knowledge of the past. As a result, the past moves from one generation to the next in a dynamic flow, open to new interpretations.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116365501","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}