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Federica Liberti – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2024
By using the feminist imaginary as a pedagogical tool for resistance and change, an experience of activism within the university context in Naples, Italy is explored. The article focuses on the potential transformative power of art as catalysis for deeper level emotional and spiritual learning transformation. The aim is trying to inspire critical…
Descriptors: Feminism, Imagination, Social Change, Art
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Victoria Konidari – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
This study argues that the long-standing difficulties in addressing educational disadvantage point to the need to change the analytical categories used and takes territoriality as an analytical lens to explore how students perceive their place in the world. The study presents the results of a qualitative study investigating how 222 14-19-year-old…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educationally Disadvantaged, Vocational Education, Late Adolescents
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Patricia Esther Alonso-Galicia; Adriana Medina-Vidal; Simona Grande – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
This work addresses the importance of innovation in entrepreneurial and business education to ensure that students develop the ability to make complex decisions and solve complex challenges. The intention was to incorporate the complexity theory in decision-making and problem-solving in business and entrepreneurship. To achieve this, we present…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills
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Konidari, Victoria – Comparative Education, 2021
This article explores the idea that effective education policymaking necessitates an improved understanding of how students, as micro-scale actors, position themselves in operational terms in the globalised context. The article introduces the concept of perceived operational space as an analytical and methodological perspective to support this…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Expulsion, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Silletti, Fabiola; Salvadori, Eliala A.; Presaghi, Fabio; Fasolo, Mirco; Aureli, Tiziana; Coppola, Gabrielle – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Mind-mindedness (MM) refers to caregivers' proclivity to treat a child as having an active and autonomous mental life. It has been shown to be a powerful predictor of many developmental outcomes and to mitigate the impact of risk conditions. However, longitudinal studies on MM reporting changes over time and individual differences among mothers…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Socioeconomic Status, Play
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Gobbo, Francesca – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2017
In Italy, the exploration of, and debate on, problems of educational rights and justice are not subsumed under the comprehensive rubric of "Urban Education". They are rather studied from disciplinary realms and approaches such as social education or intercultural education that aim to understand and respond to issues of pressing social,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Equal Education, Justice
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Levrini, Olivia; Tasquier, Giulia; Branchetti, Laura; Barelli, Eleonora – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
Can science teaching contribute to developing skills for managing uncertainty towards the future and projecting imagination forwards? If so, how? In this paper, we outline an approach to 'teach the future' through science education. In the first part, we describe a framework that has been constructed to orient the design of teaching modules…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Skill Development, Science Education, Climate
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Di Dio, Cinzia; Isernia, Sara; Ceolaro, Chiara; Marchetti, Antonella; Massaro, Davide – SAGE Open, 2018
The study of social cognition involves the attribution of states of mind to humans, as well as, quite recently, to nonhuman creatures, like God. Some studies support the role of social cognition in religious beliefs, whereas others ascribe religious beliefs to an ontological knowledge bias. The present study compares these distinct approaches in…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Social Cognition, Religion, Beliefs
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Ferrante, Donatella; Girotto, Vittorio; Straga, Marta; Walsh, Clare – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
Current views of hypothetical thinking implicitly assume that the content of imaginary thoughts about the past and future should be the same. Two experiments show that, given the same experienced facts of reality, future imagination may differ from past reconstruction. When participants failed a task, their counterfactual thoughts focused on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Imagination, Simulation, Time
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Pescarmona, Isabella – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2017
This study explores how experimenting with Complex Instruction can broaden teachers' perspectives and develop understanding of the classroom as a complex social and cultural system. It critically presents and interweaves data collected during ethnographic research, which was carried out with a group of in-service teachers, plus four workshops…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ethnography, Workshops, Preservice Teachers
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Welply, Oakleigh – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article examines the role of global representations in immigrant-background children's social imaginaries in primary schools in France and England. Increased globalisation, mobility and migration hold strong implications in terms of identity and belonging for children from immigrant backgrounds in schools in European countries, based on…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Oliva, Gaetano – World Journal of Education, 2015
Education to Theatricality as pedagogical and artistic research is experienced by almost twenty years in Italy in laboratories and projects organized in collaboration with universities, schools, theaters, educational centers, cultural centers, educational and social services, associations. Education to Theatricality is a science that includes…
Descriptors: Drama Workshops, Creative Activities, Creativity, Theater Arts
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Piedimonte, Alessandro; Garbarini, Francesca; Rabuffetti, Marco; Pia, Lorenzo; Berti, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Movements with both hands are essential to our everyday life, and it has been shown that performing asymmetric bimanual movements produces an interference effect between hands. There have been many studies--using varying methods--investigating the development of bimanual movements that show that this skill continues to evolve during childhood and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Psychomotor Skills, Children, Young Adults
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Musacchio, Gemma; Lanza, Tiziana; D'Addezio, Giuliana – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
The present paper describes an experience of science theatre addressed to children of primary and secondary school, with the main purpose of making them acquainted with a topic, the interior of the Earth, largely underestimated in compulsory school curricula worldwide. A not less important task was to encourage a positive attitude towards natural…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Natural Disasters
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Edwards, Carolyn Pope; Cline, Keely; Gandini, Lella; Giacomelli, Alga; Giovannini, Donatella; Galardini, Annalia – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
The progressive educational systems of some regions of Italy are becoming increasingly recognized by educators and researchers seeking insight into diverse educational approaches from the international community. This article represents a case study of Filastrocca ("Nursery Rhyme"), a preschool in the Tuscan city of Pistoia. Filastrocca…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Childrens Literature
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