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In Italy, computer science is still far from playing a relevant role within an overall cultural vision: on the one hand, public discourse superimposes informatics as such on digital world in a broad sense; on the other hand, there is a tendency to conceive computer science exclusively as a knowledge useful for specialised job placement. However, this is an evolving situation, in the wake of countries that have already started a real debate on these issues for some time. In the present paper, a comparison between different educational systems is made, while carrying out an analysis about the role of informatics in a globalised society; of course, it is not possible to ignore the importance of an epistemological reflection on its core concepts and on Ict ethical implications, especially in the light of pedagogical issues and digital education need for everyone [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to provide a general overview of sensory disabilities, focusing on the importance of teacher training in digital technologies from an inclusive perspective. In Italy, students with sensory disabilities represent 3.6 percent of the total number of students with disabilities. It becomes clear how crucial it is to direct educational attention to the strategies and ways that teachers and educators can put in place in order to be able to promote inclusive learning. In this, ICT can contribute in responding to what are the individual needs of students with sensory disabilities, enabling them to express their full potential both cognitively and in terms of their autonomy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Textbooks determine the way school is experienced and learning realised. Their centrality, however, differs according to the various pedagogical cultures in which they are used. This paper shows how mother-tongue and literature textbooks are used in secondary education in Romania and the way in which they reflect an adequate pedagogy for the cognitive development of students. The Romanian case can stimulate a reflection also on the teaching of language and literature in Italy. [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]

Different laws, including the recent Law no.227 / 2021 "Delega al Governo in materia di disabilità", underline the importance of building educational projects for pupils, especially in a condition of disability, according to the Life Design’s perspective: alongside the pedagogical tension that characterizes the daily educational experience it is essential that the learning contexts know how to systematize organizational strategies to manage the various school life’s transitions: from the entering school phase, to internships experience rather than in outgoing educational guidance, assuming a systemic and unitary vision introduced thirty years ago with the law 104/1992. This paper documents the quantitative outcomes relating to the first phase of a survey involving a network of Vocational Training Centers (VTC) in Italy. The main goal is to know and understand the complexity of the practices implemented, the VTCs ability to give coherence to the educational guidance, even linking themselves to different stakeholders in the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]