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While the current debate highlights an increasing deficit of civic engagement, new — and often less visible — forms of “participation” are beginning to be detected, such as those implemented by citizens with migratory background living at the physical and symbolic margins of Western towns. Our study, part of the project “Abitare insieme” (Living together) in Milan’s multicultural suburbs (Italy), was developed with a dual purpose: to analyze the relationship between citizens with a migratory background, active citizenship, and their place representations/belongings; to experiment the co-construction of innovative spaces of speech for citizens, through their dialogical involvement in the research. In a framework of participatory research to enhance reflexivity and transformative practices, a survey was designed and administered. In this paper we will discuss the survey results, along with some methodological implication. The aim is to contribute to reinvent the “active citizenship” construct from a transformative, pedagogical, and intercultural perspective.

Parent-teacher conferences (PTCs) are important institutional encounters to promote a constructive dialogue and alliance between the school and the family system. However, cooperation between parents and institutional actors is not always straightforward, especially in the case of foreign parents. Because of the unequal familiarity of the latter with the institutional frameworks and language resources needed to participate effectively in PTCs, foreign parents risk having less communicative resources to rely on in the joint construction of the interaction. In this paper we focus on eight PTCs with foreign parents, paying attention to occurrences where children’s learning difficulties are linked by teachers to their language skills. Using a conversation analysis framework, we will observe how language issues are intertwined with cultural, identity, and moral aspects that need special attention in order to enhance and support the effective construction of educational alliances between schools and families.

The paper investigates the inclusive value that a sport climbing context can represent for blind and visually impaired adolescents through data from a qualitative research conducted by the University of Milano-Bicocca. From the perspective of Embodied Pedagogy the article highlights both the pivotal components of the materiality of sport climbing and the pedagogical relevance that the experience of these elements can assume for an adolescent with visual impairment.

IntroductionA new national survey has been carried out by the Italian Centers for Cognitive Disorders and Dementias (CCDDs). The aim of this new national survey is to provide a comprehensive description of the characteristics, organizational aspects of the CCDDs, and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsA list of all national CCDDs was requested from the delegates of each Italian region. The online questionnaire is divided in two main sections: a profile section, containing information on location and accessibility, and a data collection form covering organization, services, treatments, activities, and any service interruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.ResultsIn total, 511 out of 534 (96%) facilities completed the profile section, while 450 out of 534 (84%) CCDDs also completed the data collection form. Almost half of the CCDDs (55.1%) operated for 3 or fewer days a week. About one-third of the facilities had at least two professional figures among neurologists, geriatricians and psychiatrists. In 2020, only a third of facilities were open all the time, but in 2021, two-thirds of the facilities were open.ConclusionThis paper provides an update on the current status of CCDDs in Italy, which still shows considerable heterogeneity. The survey revealed a modest improvement in the functioning of CCDDs, although substantial efforts are still required to ensure the diagnosis and care of patients with dementia.

In the era of digitalization, artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as an essential tool in the educational realm, with growing relevance for university students. This paper investigates the application of AI in the educational context, focusing on a case study among young adults (20-24 years old), outlining how AI can enrich the learning and research process. The work particularly concentrates on two key aspects: the use of AI as an assistive data mining tool and the application of AI in generative research processes and critical comparison

Dopo aver confrontato una serie di applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale (IA) utilizzate da enti impositori di vari Stati, l’analisi si sofferma sull’adeguatezza del quadro normativo esistente e sulle proposte di riforma. Da un lato, l’IA accresce l’efficienza amministrativa identificando tempestivamente situazioni anomale e sgravando i funzionari da attività ripetitive. Dall’altro, pone però questioni di legalità dell’imposizione, trasparenza ed equità. L’utilizzo a fini istruttori o accertativi dei più avanzati algoritmi di auto-apprendimento può dare risultati accurati, ma difficili da interpretare, violando l’obbligo di motivazione degli atti impositivi e, dunque, il diritto di difesa dei contribuenti. Inoltre, poiché gli algoritmi di autoapprendimento procedono sulla base di esempi, potrebbero perpetuare modelli storici di discriminazione, a causa di errori o pregiudizi insiti nei dati o nell’addestramento. Riguardo all’attività di consulenza giuridica delle amministrazioni, gli assistenti virtuali alimentati dall’IA sono in grado di rispondere ai più svariati quesiti dei contribuenti, ma mancano chiare statuizioni normative sulla tutela del legittimo affidamento in caso di revirement. Con l’approssimarsi dell’approvazione del Regolamento UE sull’IA, si commenta criticamente l’attuale formulazione della proposta, poiché esonera le autorità fiscali e doganali dall’obbligo di rispettare requisiti di qualità elevata dei dati, trasparenza, sorveglianza umana, precisione e robustezza., After comparing a sample of artificial intelligence (AI) applications used by the different Countries' revenue bodies, this paper questions the adequacy of the existing and proposed regulatory frameworks. While AI enhances efficiency by identifying abnormal behavior and reducing repetitive tasks, it also raises issues related to legality, transparency and fairness. Automating tax audits with the most up-to-date machine learning tools may yield accurate results that are however difficult to interpret and validate, thereby undermining the administrative duty to state reasons and taxpayers' right to defense. Moreover, since self-learning algorithms learn from the past, AI can perpetuate historical patterns of discrimination due to biased data or training. Regarding the early-compliance phase of tax procedures, AI-powered virtual assistants can advise taxpayers on countless doubts, without stating clear boundaries and rights: therefore, the users might not be aware of the non-binding nature of advice and be audited contrary to favorable responses. With the approaching of the approval of the EU Regulation on AI, challenging the proposal’s current wording, this study advocates for a robust regulatory framework to strike a fair balance between administrative efficiency and taxpayers' rights.

The importance of youth participation is underlined by international policies, which widely stress youth’s fundamental role in developing more just and sustainable societies. At the same time, dis-affection from the more traditional democratic processes is registered by young people, who instead seem to be looking for forms of expression of a different nature. This paper aims to question the forms of participation of young people, offering to consider them as resources for the broader society within the perspective of public pedagogy (Biesta, 2012), suggesting that the institutions let themselves be informed by what is happening.

Coding and robotics education has drawn a lot of interest in recent years to get children ready for the future labour market and advance their digital skills. This paper focuses on coding and robotics workshops in non-formal educational settings in Belgium, Denmark, and Italy. Building on data from a comparative/cross-national study, we will present findings from 16 observations of such workshops followed by 11 interviews with the organisers and moderators with the purpose of investigating their pedagogical practices, learning and inclusion opportunities. Findings of this study suggest that while digital skills workshops in non-formal learning contexts are designed and implemented with the goal of encouraging children's collaboration and active participation, the structure of the learning activities, the organization of the learning environment, and the choices made by children themselves may promote individualistic practices. Furthermore, despite attempts to encourage diversity and inclusion, such as choosing a "free" and "open-door" approach, these workshops may fail to attract participants from diverse backgrounds. We argue that an active dialogue between organisers and moderators, researchers, parents, and, of course, children from various backgrounds is required to promote child-centered approaches that move beyond individualistic accounts of learning and toward the creation of more collaborative and inclusive digital skill activities through a systemic and holistic approach.

The pandemic has introduced new elements of complexity in the existence of subjects, exposing them to unprecedented forms of fragility. These considerations take on greater meaning in the chronic condition in which such complexity must be reconciled with the tasks of the management of the disease. Starting from the results of a qualitative research on the formative dimensions in the self-management of diabetes, the paper highlights the contribution that the socio-material perspective on the chronicity experience can offer in outlining new research possibilities and educational actions that activate transformative resilience processes, to support the subject in living current life scenarios.

Scholars and practitioners have long been debating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing. Academics have also studied the correlation between ESG and corporate financial performance, as well as whether investment managers should factor corporate ESG policies and activities in their portfolio investment strategies. However, the typical approach followed so far sees ESG as data enrichment in analysing performance of the target for investment selection. This article elaborates on the recently developed financial/ESG sustainable growth matrix Bellandi (2022, 2023) to show its use by management for more comprehensive growth strategy decisions. The joint reading of ESG strategies and financial policies provides a company with a new pair of lenses for strategic analysis, and investors with a new dimension and tool for stock picking and diagnostics of growth forecasts of the target. Conversely, this paper does not focus on the relationship between ESG and corporate financial performance.

This paper discusses one paragraph of the Kitāb al-Barbariyya, a medieval Berber commentary on Abū Ġānim’s Mudawwana. The brief note examined is a comment on the answer to a legal question, which mentions the ancient Berber names of a constellation and of a plant, quoting two lines of Arabic poetry. The passage occupies seven lines (f. 126b, ll. 8-14) of the manuscript MS.ARA 1936 found at the Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) of Paris. The Berber words retrieved from this text are Amanar, the name of the constellation of Orion, and tabduɣt, the name of the cotton plant. Moreover, in this ancient text, the word (a)kermus, which in the contemporary Berber languages applies to some specific plants (figs, prickly pears, dates), and which, in this case, seems to mean simply ‘fruit’, which supports a possible etymology from the Greek karpós. A list of Arab authors quoted within the Kitāb al-Barbariyya is added at the end of the paper.

Tema del presente scritto è la disciplina (legale e negoziale) del procedimento assembleare nelle cooperative, il cui contenuto dovrebbe essere ripensato tenendo conto sia del necessario carattere democratico di queste società sia dello sviluppo tecnologico intervenuto negli ultimi decenni. Tesi di questo scritto è che un’adeguata riscrittura della predetta disciplina ci consegnerà cooperative più democratiche e imprese più mutualistiche., This article focuses on the legal and contractual regulation regarding the assembly procedure in cooperatives, the content of which should be rethought taking into account both the necessary democratic nature of these companies and the technological development that has occurred in recent decades. The thesis of this paper is that an adequate rewriting of the aforementioned regulation will deliver us cooperatives more democratic and enterprises more mutualistic.

The global pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus and the measures taken to face it have upset the organization of individual and collective existence, with respect to time, spaces, relationships and habits that marked our daily life. Therefore, also schools and educational services are in the middle of a sudden change that has affected both education professionals (educators, teachers) and pupils. The pandemic situation has suddenly shown that it is necessary to orient educational and social reflection to the links existing between spheres of existence usually considered as separate. The reference to adult education is significant, because the tenets of dualist and anthropocentric thought appear more deeply rooted in adult subjects. Our proposal is to reassemble the human with the environment through a perspective we termed “Ecologies of Education”, that will be discussed by the present paper.

Questo contributo pone attenzione alla posizione rilevante che gli archivi possono avere e attualmente, in molti casi, già hanno, nella catena di costruzione della conoscenza, in particolare dal punto di vista della mediazione e della partecipazione. Mettere in relazione diretta pedagogia ed economia impone un chiaro posizionamento culturale e civile. Se pensiamo agli archivi come a una delle fonti dirette della conoscenza, rendere accessibili i patrimoni contenuti, vuol dire permettere il diritto per tutti alla cultura, all’elaborazione di teorie suffragate dalle fonti, come pure allo sviluppo di percorsi di ricerca, personali e collettivi., This paper examines the key role that archives can play and currently, in many cases, already do play, in the knowledge construction process, especially in relation to mediation and participation. Drawing a direct link between pedagogy and economics necessarily implies taking a clear cultural and civic stance. If we view archives as one of the direct sources of knowledge, giving access to the heritage they contain means extending to all the right to enjoy culture, to construct theories that are supported by the sources, and to develop personal and collective trajectories of inquiry.

L’inizio del XX secolo costituisce un periodo assai significativo per il dibattito sull’educazione e sull’istruzione femminile in Italia. Il saggio si propone di riflettere in particolare sulla questione della coeducazione fra maschi e femmine: in merito si palesarono posizioni varie e articolate, che esaminavano i vantaggi e gli svantaggi delle dinamiche relazionali fra ragazzi e ragazze, la possibilità di curricoli uguali o diversificati, gli sbocchi professionali offerti. Il presente contributo analizza come il dibattito su questo tema è presente nelle pagine della rivista La Coltura Popolare., The beginning of the twentieth century is a very significant period for the debate on women’s education in Italy. The paper aims to reflect in particular on the issue of coeducation between males and females: in this regard, various and articulate positions were revealed, which examined the advantages and disadvantages of the relational dynamics between boys and girls, the possibility of equal or diversified curricula, and professional opportunities offered. This paper analyses how the debate on this theme is present in the pages of the magazine La Coltura Popolare.

L’obiettivo di un modello di rischio di credito e` quello di sviluppare una regola accurata in grado di distinguere tra osservazioni buone e cattive. In questo lavoro le aziende sono le nostre osservazioni, in particolare ci concentriamo sulle Piccole e Medie Imprese (PMI), come la maggior parte dei lavori nella letteratura finanziaria, dato il loro contributo all’economia dell’Unione Europea sia per il val- ore aggiunto sia per la creazione di posti di lavoro. Lo scopo dell’articolo e` duplice: esplorare l’uso degli indicatori ottenuti dal web per migliorare le previsioni di in- solvenza delle imprese e confrontare le prestazioni dei modelli alimentati con tali indicatori rispetto a quelli costruiti con le informazioni finanziarie standard. I risul- tati, ottenuti su un campione di aziende spagnole, includeranno anche un focus sulla capacita` degli indicatori web di riconoscere le aziende insolventi non comuni., The objective of a Credit Risk model is to develop an accurate rule that can distinguish between good and bad instances. In this work instances are firms, specif- ically we focus on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), as most of the papers in the financial literature, thanks to their contribution to the European Union economy for both value added and the creation of jobs. The aim of the paper is twofold: to explore the usage of the web-scraped indicators to improve firms’ default predic- tions and to compare the models’ performances fed with the web-based indicators with the ones built with the standard financial information. The results, obtained on a sample of Spanish companies, will also include a focus about the ability of the web features in recognizing uncommon defaulted firms.

Il paper intende valorizzare l’apporto della prospettiva sociomateriale nei percorsi di consulenza pedago-gica a scuola, sia enucleandone i presupposti teorici e metodologici di fondo, sia facendo riferimento a ti-tolo esemplificativo ad alcune pratiche consulenziali. Il paradigma sociomateriale consente di focalizzare lo sguardo sulla materialità dell’educazione, riconoscendone il ruolo attivo nelle pratiche educative e formati-ve. Tematizzare la materialità in azione a scuola, nel percorso consulenziale, permette di osservare da una diversa angolatura l’accadere educativo, restituendo una complessità spesso sfuggente e fornendo strumenti interpretativi per leggerla, pensarla e affrontarla. In quest’ottica, la prospettiva sociomateriale, specialmente se impiegata in combinazione con altri approcci, offre l’opportunità di considerare significato e materialità in un quadro d’insieme, costruendo una cornice epistemologica in grado di intercettare la complessità del fare scuola.

Frame of the research: The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the megatrends reshaping the fashion industry and fashion retail companies are innovating, reshaping and revising their service-mix in order to respond to the new challenges of this dynamic and uncertain competitive context. Purpose of the paper: The purpose of this paper is to investigate fashion rental as a new alternative channel or a collateral channel to fashion retail from a business perspective. Methodology: Qualitative research was carried out in Italy, with semi-structured interviews with CEO founders of fashion rental enterprises and a case study on the Please Don’t Buy project launched by the Twinset luxury fashion company. Findings: The findings reveal the opportunities and challenges related to fashion rental as a new channel through which fashion companies can respond to the sustainable consumption patterns of consumers. Research limits: As the study is built on a qualitative research design and a single case study, the findings are not generalizable, although they allow for an in-depth analysis of the fashion rental channel. Practical implications: The study has managerial implications for established fashion brands wanting to collaborate with fashion rental platforms or to engage directly with fashion rental following in the steps of the Twinset project. It is also relevant for start-ups interested in launching their own digital rental platforms. Originality of the paper: This study is the first to examine fashion rental as a new channel alongside fashion retail, and to wonder if, in response to changing fashion consumption patterns, retail sales channels will continue to dominate the fashion industry or will gradually be replaced in part by these new rental channels.

For some years now, the term big data has become common in many fields, even outside of the computer science community, primarily thanks to the informative contribution that data - if properly processed - can provide to organizations and companies to support the decision-making process. What does big data mean? What does it mean to process them through artificial intelligence? Mostly, what does extracting value from data would mean? This paper addresses some of these questions to clarify technical elements for non-experts, discussing some critical elements and points of future attention.

Il contributo presenta il progetto di studio e ricerca “Arti e periferie”, promosso dal Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione “R. Massa” (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), volto a mettere in rete esperienze artistiche e performative realizzate in spazi pubblici urbani contemporanei. Nello specifico, il progetto ha inteso attraversare e valorizzare esperienze collocate fuori dalle rotte urbane abituali, per guardare alle potenzialità insite nei linguaggi artistici e performativi, come strumenti in grado di favorire la connessione tra luoghi e persone, di tessere legami e relazioni anche in contesti considerati periferici e marginali. È l’occasione artistica che ha rappresentato in simili ambiti l’innesco trasformativo, incentivando inedite connessioni culturali e di appartenenza. Pedagogicamente, si sono valorizzate le diverse testimonianze culturali come occasioni di apprendimento permanente, ponendo attenzione ai micro-processi trasformativi che declinano l’arte nel senso di un rinnovamento generativo del rapporto soggetto-contesto., The paper presents the study and research project “Arti e Periferie”, promoted by the Department of Human Sciences for Education “R. Massa” (University of Milano-Bicocca), aimed at networking different art and performance experiences with one another, that occurred in public, contemporary, urban spaces. Specifically, the project crosses and enhances experiences located outside the usual urban routes, in order to look at the intrinsic potential of artistic and performative languages to interweave places and people and to connect them with each other, and to develop ties even in contexts considered as peripheral and marginal. In such contexts, it is the artistic occasion that can play as transformative trigger, stimulating innovative connections with local frameworks of sociality and cultural contexts. Pedagogically, the different cultural witnessings confirmed how artistic languages can be opportunities for lifelong learning, generating attention on the transformative micro-processes that decline art as a generative renewal relationship between the subject and her or his context.

In the model-based clustering literature, we find several methodologies to study latent structures underlying the data, among which mixtures of factor analyzers. However, none of them can detect hierarchical relationships among latent variables. The Ultrametric Gaussian Mixture Model (UGMM) is intended to reach this goal by identifying a hierarchy of variables, starting by partitioning the variables into a reduced number of groups per mixture component. Nonetheless, up to now, it requires complete observations, which is often not the case in real data collections. In this paper, we propose the extension of UGMM in the missing data framework. The proposal is applied to a real data set for inspecting the relationships among features of songs of different genres.

Il presente contributo vuole riflettere sull’evoluzione di tre kit, ideati per favorire la fruizione del pubblico, realizzati in collegamento con specifici patrimoni culturali e paesaggistici, in cui il ruolo dell’immagine ha avuto un ruolo fondamentale. I kit inizialmente progettati da esperti hanno, nel corso del tempo, previsto una maggiore partecipazione della cittadinanza e dei turisti, sia nella fase di ideazione che in quella di sperimentazione e validazione., This paper aims to reflect on the evolution of three kits, designed to encourage public enjoyment, created in connection with specific cultural and landscape heritages, in which the role of image played a key role. The kits initially designed by experts have, over time, included greater participation of citizens and tourists, both in the conception phase and in the testing and validation phase.

In questo intervento ci proponiamo di riflettere su alcuni assunti taciti della ricerca qualitativa a partire da criteri molto utilizzati per valutarne la qualità, per esempio nei processi di peer review. Analizzeremo quindi in dettaglio i COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative studies (COREQ), per poi riportare alcune critiche che sono state recentemente mosse a essi. Concluderemo analizzando i guadagni che queste riflessioni sui COREQ possono portare a chi si occupa di ricerca qualitativa, anche e soprattutto in ambito educativo., In this paper, we will reflect on some tacit assumptions of qualitative research, starting from criteria widely used to evaluate its quality, for example, in peer review processes. Therefore, we will analyze the COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative studies (COREQ) and then report some critics that have been recently moved to them. We will conclude by analyzing the improvements these reflections on COREQ can bring to those involved in qualitative research, especially in education.

In the early months of 2020, Italy had to face the spread of Covid-19, by intensifying the preventive public health and social distancing measures initially in some restricted areas, and gradually extended to the entire territory, up to the lockdown on 11 March 2020. The pandemic and the lockdown have changed people's lives with important economic, social and health implications. In this paper we present the experience of a pilot study that aimed at measuring the impact of the pandemic and the lockdown on the socio-economic behaviour of the Italian population in the short and medium term, by conducting a survey with a smartphone APP. The research design is proposed as a framework to collect longitudinal data, in order to measure the impact of an event as a change over time in the behavioural profile of individuals in everyday life. The survey has detected some sociodemographic variables related to the pre and post lockdown. At each measurement, both the current attitude/behaviour and the expected one in the short (two-month window) and long term (two-year window), have been detected. The survey is composed of two questionnaires: the first must be filled in just the first time, and the second questionnaire is proposed each time the respondent decides to participate. In November 2021 a first extraction from the data set counts 330 responses, corresponding to 189 individuals. In this paper we present some analyses od these data, with only illustrative purposes of the potentiality of the framework proposed. The potentiality of the tool is supported by the results of some analyses: socio-demographic characteristics of people (working, being female, and having experienced the event on oneself) determine the magnitude of the impact on loneliness; over time, the negative impact of the lockdown on the expectations tends to reduce, confirming the hypothesis of adaptation to critical circumstances; optimism about the future demonstrates the desire for resilience in the face of

Nell’ambito del progetto MUSA - Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action, l’articolo presenta una ricerca multidisciplinare orientata a comprendere come poter rendere lo spazio pubblico del Distretto Bicocca di Milano un luogo di partecipazione e un contesto di apprendimento continuo sui temi della sostenibilità ambientale, economica e sociale. Il paper restituisce una mappa del processo di ricerca per esplicitare i passaggi metodologici che lo hanno contraddistinto in modo da poterli rendere trasferibili e replicabili in percorsi di ricerca simili per contenuto, obiettivo, condizioni e risorse di partenza. Oltre alle attenzioni metodologiche, l’articolo condivide i primi risultati emergenti dalla literature review sul rapporto tra territorio, partecipazione, documentazione e sostenibilità.

Nella società contemporanea la pedagogia deve misurarsi con l’affermazione su larga scala di paradigmi di tipo medico-sanitario. Questi, infatti, da tempo sono penetrati massicciamente anche nei contesti educativi, condizionando gli sguardi e le pratiche che in essi hanno luogo. Tanto la scuola quanto i servizi alla persona sono oggi pervasi da linguaggi e categorie che rispondono a logiche e saperi di tipo psichiatrico che non di rado producono effetti di patologizzazione e normalizzazione dei soggetti (studenti, educandi) che manifestano per diverse ragioni irregolarità della condotta. Gli stessi professionisti dell’educazione (docenti, pedagogisti, formatori, educatori, operatori sociali e socio-sanitari) non sempre sembrano pienamente consapevoli di quanto queste logiche di natura extra-pedagogica incidano in profondità sul lavoro educativo e sui modi attraverso cui i soggetti sono detti, pensati, trattati. Questa tendenza appare ancora più evidente e marcata nei servizi – come, ad esempio, quelli rivolti a persone con problemi di dipendenza e di salute mentale – che ospitano individui considerati “devianti”, “anormali”, “irregolari”. Individui che tradizionalmente sono sottoposti a pratiche di riabilitazione sociale, sanitaria, psichiatrica che incorporano al contempo istanze di cura, di normalizzazione e di controllo sociale. A partire da un’esperienza di supervisione pedagogica realizzata dagli Autori in alcuni servizi per soggetti tossicodipendenti con diagnosi psichiatrica, il paper intende riflettere criticamente sull’inattualità dello sguardo pedagogico e sul ruolo che esso può svolgere nel riorientare linguaggi, logiche e prassi dei servizi, al fine di promuovere in essi una prospettiva specificamente educativa, capace di prevenire derive patologizzanti e di rielaborare e problematizzare gli effetti formativi dei dispositivi in atto.

The paper explores the Constitutional Reform project aiming to introduce direct election of the Italian Prime Minister. The author begins by describing the evolution of this parliamentary form of government then attempts to draw possible insights from the practice of direct election of the Regional President which regions have been experiencing for the last two decades.

Il presente contributo illustra i risultati di uno studio di caso che ha coinvolto una classe quarta primaria, un’insegnante tutor accogliente, una tutor coordinatrice e una studentessa in tirocinio in un percorso di RicercaFormazione sul tema del rapporto scuola-museo nell’ambito della didattica della storia, con un focus sulla progettazione della visita al Museo Egizio di Torino. Si riportano i risultati dell’analisi tematica delle interviste a tutte le figure coinvolte e del focus group conclusivo. La codifica è stata condotta con un sistema induttivo di etichettatura del testo ispirato alla Grounded Theory costruttivista, identificando unità di senso, poi raggruppate in categorie, che hanno permesso di evidenziare punti di forza e criticità del percorso. Si rileva come la Ricerca-Formazione abbia sostenuto l’attitudine alla riflessività, all’autoanalisi e autovalutazione, necessarie per promuovere lo sviluppo professionale negli insegnanti coinvolti, sia in formazione sia esperti., This paper illustrates the results of a case study involving a 4th-grade classroom, a tutor teacher, a student trainee and a coordinating tutor in a Teacher Professional Development Research on the topic of the school-museum relationship within the teaching history framework, with a focus on the design of a visit to the Egyptian Museum in Turin. The contribution is centered on the thematic analysis of the interviews with all the participants and the final focus group. The coding process follow an inductive system, inspired by the constructivist Grounded Theory, labelling the text by identifying meaningful units which were then grouped into categories that highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the pathway. It is highlighted how the Teacher Professional Development Research favoured self-reflection, self-analysis and self-assessment, all necessary to promote professional development in the teachers involved, both trainees and in-service.

This paper attempts, first of all, to demonstrate the absence of a normative basis for the principle of selfsufficiency and its exclusively jurisprudential origin. It, then addresses the inconveniences produced by the uneven application declinations of the concept of self-sufficiency with respect to the objective and subjective guarantees that should inform the criminal process. Highlighting the sacrifice of the right of access to the judge, as also defined by recent European jurisprudence, and the formal legality of the criminal process, it notes the illegitimate deflective use of self-sufficiency and its true nature as mere formalism that overwhelms procedural forms. Il finally addresses the probable effects that the novelties of the socalled Cartabia reform, and especially the (future) digitization of criminal trial documents, might have on the principle analyzed.

La Chiesa cattolica nei primi anni del secondo dopoguerra acquista un ruolo preponderante nell’organizzazione delle colonie di vacanza, prendendo possesso di un’ampia parte delle ex strutture fasciste. Questo contributo presenta le principali coordinate storiche, pedagogiche e organizzative che caratterizzano le iniziative delle istituzioni pontificie negli anni 1945-1960; nell’ultima parte del lavoro si propone un accenno sulla Colonia pontificia bresciana Leone XIII di Cesenatico (1952)., On Holidays with the Pope. The Pedagogy of the Pca-Poa Holiday Camps (1945-1960) The Catholic Church in the first years after World War 2 acquired a preponderant role in the organisation of holiday camps, taking over a large part of the former fascist structures. This contribution presents the main historical, pedagogical and organisational coordinates that characterised the initiatives of the pontifical institutions in the period 1945-1960; in the last part of the paper there is an introduction to the Colonia pontificia bresciana Leone XIII in Cesenatico (1952).

This paper proposes a method to compute a regional Economic Sentiment Index (ESI) using Google Trends (GT) data. The ESI is a leading indicator of macroeconomic magnitudes, and GT offers a high-frequency and real-time measure of information demand. The proposed method consists of retrieving the search volumes for terms potentially correlated with the ESI, selecting those highly correlated, conducting a principal component analysis (PCA), and estimating a linear regression model. The method was applied to the ESI in Spain, and the results showed that it is possible to estimate the ESI at a regional level using the PCA factor loadings of the national data.

This paper is aimed at investigating the clinical properties of the Italian Battery for ADHD (BIA) in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) markers and evaluating the cognitive processes involved in these developmental disorders. The participants were: 133 with typical development (TD), 41 children with ADHD-traits, 14 with ODD-traits and 15 with SLD-traits. All participants were assessed using the BIA tests and other non-executive tests in order to control for executive and non-executive components. Results showed that BIA is effective to discriminate between the ADHD and TD group, in particular as regarding four specific tests assessing inhibitory control and sustained attention: Ranette, Auditory Attention, Numeric Stroop (errors) and CP (omissions). On the other hand, children with ODD performed more poorly than TD on MF and CP supporting the presence of impulsivity and visual search deficit in this group of children, while the SLD did not show any significant impairment. Results have been discussed in terms of the capacity of the BIA to distinguish children with ADHD, ODD or SLD.

La sentenza n. 131 del 2022 della Corte costituzionale chiude finalmente la questione dell’attribuzione del cognome, sostituendo la regola della trasmissione del solo cognome paterno con quella della trasmissione del cognome di entrambi i genitori, salvo loro diverso accordo. La nota ricostruisce il quadro giurisprudenziale precedente e si sofferma sull’uso peculiare dell’autorimessione, a cui la Corte ha fatto ricorso allo scopo di stimolare un intervento del Parlamento e al contempo di poter giudicare la regola generale di attribuzione del cognome., Constitutional Court’s judgement no. 131 of 2022, at long last, settles the question relating to the attribution of the surname: it replaces the rule imposing the assignment of the father’s surname to a child with the rule imposing the assignment of both parent’s surnames, unless they otherwise agreed. The paper reconstructs the former constitutional jurisprudence; then it analyzes how the Court raised a question of constitutional legitimacy before itself, in order to encourage the intervention of Parliament as well as to be able to judge the general rule on the surname attribution.

In this paper I argue that there is a need to reconnect with the question of purpose in education, particularly in the light of a recent tendency to focus discussions about education almost exclusively on the measurement and comparison of educational outcomes. I first discuss why the question of pur-pose should always have a place in our educational discussion. I then explore some reasons why this question seems to have disappeared from the educational agenda. The central part of the paper is a proposal for addressing the question of purpose in education—the question as to what constitutes good education—in a systematic manner. I argue that the question of purpose is a composite question and that in deliberating about the purpose of education we should make a distinction between three functions of education to which I refer as qualification, socialisation and subjectification. In the final section of the paper I provide examples of how this proposal can help in asking more precise questions about the purpose and direction of educational processes and practices.

Il presente saggio intende ricostruire la disciplina della gestione commissariale delle cooperative, anche alla luce delle importanti novità derivanti dal codice della crisi d’impresa e dell’insolvenza. Nello scritto si colloca la gestione commissariale tra i diversi provvedimenti che il Ministero delle imprese e del made in Italy può disporre in presenza di irregolarità riferibili alle cooperative e si analizzano specialmente i poteri del commissario governativo nell’organizzazione della cooperativa commissariata., This essay intends to reconstruct the law of the commissioner management of cooperatives, also in light of the important innovations deriving from the code of business crisis and insolvency. In the paper the commissioner management is placed among the various measures applicable to irregular cooperatives by the Ministry of enterprises and made in Italy and the power of the government commissioner is fully analysed.

This paper reproduces, with some notes, the report at the conference "The dialogue between constitutional law and ecclesiastical law" of 3 November 2022 at the University of Siena. Starting from a constitutional bill presented by Lelio Basso in 1972, the essay tries to understand the evolution of the principle of secularism in recent decades and the relationship between secularism, the principle of tolerance and the protection of freedom of conscience and expression.

Il presente contributo è dedicato alla responsabilità medica da inadempimento dell’obbligo di informazione. Obbligo che impone al medico di illustrare rischi, alternative e vantaggi del trattamento, per attuare l’autodeterminazione terapeutica. L’analisi mira alla individuazione della natura giuridica della responsabilità, a prescindere da medical malpractice o danno alla salute. Ciononostante, si evidenziano ancora riflessi del pregresso rapporto di interdipendenza tra danno alla salute e danno all’autodeterminazione terapeutica, specie nell’onere probatorio e nei criteri di liquidazione dei danni., This paper is devoted to medical liability for breach of the duty to inform. The obligation provides the duty to inform on the consequences, risks, alternatives, and advantages of the medical treatment, for the implementation of the fundamental right to self-determination. The analysis aims to identify the legal nature of liability, relevant even in the absence of a medical malpractice or health impairment. However, there are still residues of the intersection between health and self-determination, especially in the onus probandi and in the criteria for the compensation.

After many years of conflict, Northern Ireland still appears today as a deeply divided society that bears the marks of centuries of ethnic hostility with a strong religious connotation. The context in which, more than any other, the segregationist tension between the two communities, Protestant and Catholic, is still clearly perceivable is the education system, which is characterized by a significant separation of students according to their religious affiliation. The paper aims at reconstructing the origins and outlining the focal points of such an education system, which was recently brought to the attention of the Northern Ireland Supreme Court, with reference to discrimination against students belonging to other religions or beliefs.

In recent years, the secondary market for sukuk has been booming with growth rates ranging between 10-12%. In this paper we intend to analyze the structure of investment certificates that comply with the rules and economic principles of the Shari'ah. The markedly legal aspects of this instrument are therefore highlighted, first outlining the general structuring of Islamic certificates, and secondly, analyzing the operational profiles of the different types of sukuk most widespread on the Shari'ah compliant market. Finally, the guidelines issued by the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions on the subject are examined and the essential features of difference between the sukuk and conventional bonds are analyzed from a comparative point of view. The finale highlights the unexpressed potential of sukuk, recalling the best strategies for expanding Islamic investments. The primary objective is to raise the awareness of the relevant financial authorities, which appear disinterested in the Islamic financial market despite the resilience of this segment even during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This paper examines the indivisible reserves in the Italian cooperatives, which should characterize all cooperatives in the world according to the International Cooperative Alliance. The issue is dealt with from the point of view not only of company law but also of accounting and tax law. The paper examines all the spaces left by the law to the contractual freedom in order to design an effective and efficient financial structure of the cooperative thanks to all its reserves, divisible and indivisible.

La sentenza n. 38162/2022 delle Sezioni Unite della Corte di cassazione ha confermato l’impossibilità di riconoscimento del vincolo di filiazione tra il minore, nato all’estero da gestazione per altri, e il genitore intenzionale. Il presente contributo si concentra sul profilo dell’adozione nei casi particolari, ritenuto dalla Corte lo strumento di tutela dei diritti del minore, mettendo in luce i punti critici dell’impianto argomentativo dei giudici e fornendo possibili soluzioni., Judgment No 38162 of 2022 by the Joint Civil Divisions of the Supreme Court of Cassation confirmed the impossibility of the recognition of the filial relationship between a child, born abroad by surrogacy, and an intended parent. The present paper examines the profile of adoption under special circumstances as a means of protecting the child’s rights, exposing the critical points of the judges’ reasoning and providing possible solutions.