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Il saggio offre un’attenta decostruzione del concetto di “disagio” e in particolare di “disagio educativo”. L’intento è quello di costruire la cornice teorica che permetta di approcciare in modo meno ingenuo e più critico il fenomeno del disagio educativo, mostrando come esso si presenti nell’articolazione di tre tipologie di disagio: il disagio degli educatori, degli educandi, dei servizi. Il riferimento alla Clinica della Formazione è prezioso sia nel pensare il disagio, sia nel pensare e realizzare la consulenza pedagogica nel disagio educativo. Il saggio evidenzia come tale riferimento possa essere declinato nella pratica consulenziale da un punto di vista epistemologico e metodologico., The object of te paper is the consultancy in educational discomfort. At the beginning, it offers an accurate deconstruction of the meanings of “discomfort”, and in particular of the meanings of the “educational discomfort”. It aims to build the theoretical framework that allows to approach the phenomenon of educational disease through a critical stance. Therefore, it shows that this phenomenon is articulated in three kind of discomfort: the education discomfort, the educators’ discomfort, and the services discomfort. This dimensions are reciprocally related. This is the reason way the educational discomfort required that a consultant acquire a complex glance to research about it and to act accordingly. From this point of view, the “Clinical-Educational approach” (Clinica della Formazione) can be an important reference point for a pedagogical consultant. Referring to a casework, the paper shows how the practice of pedagogical consultancy can be carried out in this framework.

Based on a reflection on forms and meanings of the childhood protection in our contemporary era, this paper aims at proposing the analysis of some international strategies of intervention to tackle the emergency of violence against children. The report 10 years on: Global Progress and Delay in Ending Violence Against Children – the Rhetoric and the Reality, recently published by the International NGO Council on Violence Against Children, highlights the extent and the pervasiveness of violence against children. The childhood protection, in this panorama, is a complex task, which needs a strategic intervention from different levels and several perspectives. This paper will explore some of the main possible international strategies in order to create a network for understanding, preventing and dealing with the drama of violence against children

In questo contributo sono presentati i risultati emersi da una ricerca qualitativa avente come oggetto d'indagine il processo dell'accettabilità sociale delle biotecnologie a base di virus. Tale ricerca, avvalendosi di focus group creativi, ha esplorato la costruzione di senso emergente da parte di non esperti di fronti ad un'innovazione che contraddice il senso comune. Il processo dell'accettabilità sociale di questo genere di biotecnologie è stato esplorato anche in relazione all'emergenza pandemica di Covid-19 ed infine è stato condensato in un modello socio-comunicativo potenzialmente utile nell'affrontare divari di conoscenza tra scienza e società., This paper presents the results of qualitative research investigating the process of social acceptability of virus-based biotechnology. This research, using creative focus groups, explored the emergent sense-making of non-experts in the face of an innovation that contradicts common sense. The process of social acceptability of this kind of biotechnology was also explored in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic emergence and finally condensed into a socio-communication model potentially useful in addressing knowledge gaps between science and society.

Il cambiamento climatico negli ultimi anni ha ottenuto uno spazio piuttosto autonomo nell'agenda mediatica, a causa di un aumento nella frequenza degli eventi meteorologici estremi, come piogge e precipitazioni nevose intense e grandinate improvvise e dell'impatto drammatico che causano sulle attività umane. In questo contributo verrà esaminato il processo di circolazione della conoscenza meteorologica mettendo a fuoco le fasi della previsione, come produzione tecnico-scientifica del dato, e della comunicazione, come produzione della notizia meteorologica, per poi identificare alcune criticità inerenti al livello del consumo, ovvero agli usi dell'informazione da parte del pubblico, siano essi singoli cittadini, stakeholders o istituzioni. A partire da tale triangolazione è possibile individuare spazi di intervento per la mitigazione del rischio e per una gestione partecipata del cambiamento climatico-sociale., In recent years, climate change has gained a rather autonomous space on the media agenda, due to an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, such as heavy rain and snowfall and sudden hailstorms, and the dramatic impact they cause on human activities. This paper will examine the process of circulation of meteorological knowledge, focusing on the phases of forecasting, as the technical and scientific production of data, and communication, as the production of meteorological news, and then identifying some critical issues concerning the level of consumption, i.e. the use of information by the public, whether they are individual citizens, stakeholders or institutions. Starting from this triangulation, it is possible to identify areas of intervention for risk mitigation and participatory management of climate-social change.

In this paper, the authors reflect on the conditions of possibility - for psychology - of adopting a transdisciplinary perspective in the definition of its intervention practices. These conditions concern, on the one hand, the clarification of the epistemological assumptions that guide the action of the discipline; on the other hand, the characteristics of the methods to be used in a transdisciplinary setting. In addition to these conditions - which can be considered internal to psychology - the authors consider the material conditions for the feasibility of a transdisciplinary project and identify in the "network" the organizational structure most consistent with this perspective.

Italy was among the most severely hit European country by COVID-19 pandemic and, just as in other countries, healthcare workers emerged as a group at increased risk of becoming infected with the virus. In fact, according to INAIL almost 70% of all reported occupational injuries is concentrated in the health and social care sector. Nevertheless, to date in Italy – to our knowledge – no research has focused on the possible factors that have jeopardized the protection of this category of workers. Our paper aims to analyze – through currently available data – the impact of different Regional Health Care Systems’ interventions and policies on HCW’s risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection with respect to specific indicators regarding the different responses to Covid-19 adopted by SSR with the aim of preventing the spread of the virus and treating people infected with COVID-19.

This paper is aimed at providing further psychometric robustness to the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC), a standardized tool for assessing emotion comprehension in childhood. The study explores the factorial structure, gender and age invariance in a large sample of children from Northern and Central Italy (N = 1,478, M = 755; F = 723) aged 3 to 10 years, identifying the pattern of age-normative development across six-month intervals. The confirmatory factorial analysis supports the original psychometric structure of the TEC. Implications for typical and atypical assessment and for research purpose are discussed.

The Chilean Government has been taking legal action since 2010 by the law of 20.422 that establishes the Norms about Equal Opportunities and Inclusion for Disabled Persons. Despite above mentioned anti-discriminatory legislation framework and progress, several factor hamper the inclusion at university. Democratisation of HE has helped to ensure a growing trend of increasing enrolment of students with disability in Chile, although it is still not significant enough in terms of potential numbers. Starting from this scenario, the paper aims to provide an overview of the principal steps carried out during the MUSE Project in Latin American in order to highlight the progresses and the challenges of a process in act which has the objective of improve access, ensure retention conditions and develop rich learning opportunities for HEIs’ Disabled Students

This paper presents the training programme to improve faculty members teaching skills at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The hypothesis of this work is about the role of the inter and transdisciplinary approach in developing the capacity to promote student’s conceptual change on disciplinary content. Data have been collected through the recorded audio of the training activity. Data analysis is conducted by thematic analysis structured in three main categories: knowledge selection process; teacher’s perception on student’s knowledge acquisition; teach-er’s strategies aimed at making disciplinary knowledge accessible. The first results show a complex configuration of teacher’s perceptions and strategies.

The Chilean Government has been taking legal action since 2010 by the law of 20.422 that establishes the Norms about Equal Opportunities and Inclusion for Disabled Persons. Despite above mentioned anti-discriminatory legislation framework and progress, several factor hamper the inclusion at university. Democratisation of HE has helped to ensure a growing trend of increasing enrolment of students with disability in Chile, although it is still not significant enough in terms of potential numbers. Starting from this scenario, the paper aims to provide an overview of the principal steps carried out during the MUSE Project in Latin American in order to highlight the progresses and the challenges of a process in act which has the objective of improve access, ensure retention conditions and develop rich learning opportunities for HEIs’ Disabled Students

This paper presents the training programme to improve faculty members teaching skills at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The hypothesis of this work is about the role of the inter and transdisciplinary approach in developing the capacity to promote student’s conceptual change on disciplinary content. Data have been collected through the recorded audio of the training activity. Data analysis is conducted by thematic analysis structured in three main categories: knowledge selection process; teacher’s perception on student’s knowledge acquisition; teach-er’s strategies aimed at making disciplinary knowledge accessible. The first results show a complex configuration of teacher’s perceptions and strategies.

This paper presents the training programme to improve faculty members teaching skills at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The hypothesis of this work is about the role of the inter and transdisciplinary approach in developing the capacity to promote student’s conceptual change on disciplinary content. Data have been collected through the recorded audio of the training activity. Data analysis is conducted by thematic analysis structured in three main categories: knowledge selection process; teacher’s perception on student’s knowledge acquisition; teacher’s strategies aimed at making disciplinary knowledge accessible. The first results show a complex configuration of teacher’s perceptions and strategies.

This paper aims to present the activities carried out within the MUSE European Project, with specific regard to the Work Package “Modernization and Strengthening of Human Capital”, led by University of Bologna. One of the main goal of this project is the creation – in Chile, Mexico and Argentina – of Students with disabilities Support Centres and long-term strategies for the access and retention of students with disabilities in the Higher Education system. In order to design and create these Support Centres, the University of Bologna trained 30 administrative and academic staff from Latin America on the main conceptual issues related to: Inclusive Approach, Universal Design for Learning, ICT for inclusion and pedagogical design of active learning environment. The training aims to provide pedagogical and didactic competences – in particular on the use of ICT – to foster the inclusion of students with disability at university

This paper presents the training programme to improve faculty members teaching skills at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The hypothesis of this work is about the role of the inter and transdisciplinary approach in developing the capacity to promote student’s conceptual change on disciplinary content. Data have been collected through the recorded audio of the training activity. Data analysis is conducted by thematic analysis structured in three main categories: knowledge selection process; teacher’s perception on student’s knowledge acquisition; teacher’s strategies aimed at making disciplinary knowledge accessible. The first results show a complex configuration of teacher’s perceptions and strategies.

This paper aims to present the activities carried out within the MUSE European Project, with specific regard to the Work Package “Modernization and Strengthening of Human Capital”, led by University of Bologna. One of the main goal of this project is the creation – in Chile, Mexico and Argentina – of Students with disabilities Support Centres and long-term strategies for the access and retention of students with disabilities in the Higher Education system. In order to design and create these Support Centres, the University of Bologna trained 30 administrative and academic staff from Latin America on the main conceptual issues related to: Inclusive Approach, Universal Design for Learning, ICT for inclusion and pedagogical design of active learning environment. The training aims to provide pedagogical and didactic competences – in particular on the use of ICT – to foster the inclusion of students with disability at university

Oggetto dello studio qui presentato è il lavoro di vendita diretta in contesti de-rivanti dal consumo di massa e dalla domanda di gratificazione immediata da parte dei clienti. La tesi dell'autrice è che spazio e tempo nei processi produttivi e riproduttivi siano trasformati da due fenomeni interconnessi: globalizzazione e immediatizzazione. Verrà prima esaminata la categoria del tempo come costruzione sociale nelle società a capitalismo avanzato, e vedremo poi come la dimensione del tempo viene percepita in due contesti situati, Corso Buenos Aires a Milano, Italia (1) e Oxford Street a Londra, Regno Unito (2), vie commerciali in due città metropolitane europee. I due casi studio sono stati scelti per la densità di negozi e per l'alta affluenza di potenziali clienti. Attraverso una ricerca qualitativa l'autrice ha indagato le percezioni e sensazioni dei giovani addetti vendita in merito ai tempi (lavoro su turni, festivo e domenicale) e ai ritmi di lavoro (velocità del servizio), The topic of the study here presented is retail work in society resulting from mass consumption and the demand for immediate gratification from customers. The author’s thesis is that space and time in the productive and reproductive processes are transformed by two interconnected phenomena: globalization and what she calls immediatization. This paper will firstly examine the category of time as socially constructed in postmodern society. Secondly, we will observe how the dimension of time is perceived now in two situated contexts, shopping streets in two European metropolitan cities, Corso Buenos Aires in Milan, Italy (1) and Oxford Street in London, United Kingdom (2). The case studies have been chosen for the density of stores and the affluence of potential customers. Through a qualitative research the author examined the perceptions of young retail shift workers (RSWs) about their working times (shift work, working on holidays and Sundays) and rhythms (fast-paced work)

This paper explores bipolarization in labour productivity among Italian regions. An index to measure bipolarization in labour productivity distribution is suggested. The index can be decomposed by sectors, explaining the contribution of each sector to bipolarization. From this sectoral decomposition, a further decomposition based on a reformulation of shift-share analysis is obtained. This shift-share decomposition captures the effects of regional factors on bipolarization since the roles played by the disparities in sectoral labour productivities, industry-mix and allocation of workers across sectors are explained. The index and its decompositions are used to measure the bipolarization in the aggregate labour productivity distribution across Italian regions over the 2000-2011 period. Our findings show that bipolarization is not particularly high and is mainly attributable to the disparities in sectoral labour productivities between regions.