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The "MelArete" Project: Educating Children to the Ethics of Virtue and of Care
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Mortari, Luigina; Ubbiali, Marco – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The educative project MelArete proposes an interpretation of ethical education: a form of Education to Virtue Ethics in the light of the philosophy of care. Starting from the ontological assumption that care is prime in life and without it the human being cannot flourish in his/her humanity, the project is based on an interpretation of the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Program Descriptions, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale--Italian Form: Psychometric Properties and Relationships to Breadth of Interests, Quality of Life, and Perceived Barriers
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Soresi, Salvatore; Nota, Laura; Ferrari, Lea – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS)-Italian Form consists of four 6-item scales, which measure concern, control, curiosity, and confidence as psychosocial resources for managing occupational transitions, developmental tasks, and work traumas. The 24-item CAAS-Italian Form is identical to the International Form 2.0. The factor structure was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Adjustment, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
The Development of Official Social Statistics in Italy with a Life Quality Approach
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Sabbadini, Linda Laura – Social Indicators Research, 2011
The article covers the main steps of official statistics in the second half of the Nineties through the illustration of the transition from economic oriented official statistics to the quality of life approach. The system of the Multipurpose Surveys introduced in 1993 to give an answer to questions at social level and to provide indicators for…
Descriptors: Statistics, Social Indicators, Quality of Life, Health
How Has the Global Economic Crisis Affected People with Different Levels of Education? Education Indicators in Focus. No. 1
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OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This paper reports that between 2008 and 2009, unemployment rates across OECD countries increased among people at all educational levels, but rose to especially troubling heights among people without an upper secondary education. In 2009, the average employment rate across OECD countries was much higher for individuals with a tertiary (i.e.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Climate, Global Approach, Educational Attainment
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Experience in Transformation. Third Edition
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Edwards, Carolyn, Ed.; Gandini, Lella, Ed.; Forman, George, Ed. – Praeger, 2011
Why does the city of Reggio Emilia in northern Italy feature one of the best public systems of early education in the world? This book documents the comprehensive and innovative approach that utilizes the "hundred languages of children" to support their well-being and foster their intellectual development. Reggio Emilia is a fast-growing…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Theater Arts, Quality of Life, Young Children
American Faculty and Their Institutions: The Global View
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Finkelstein, Martin; Cummings, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
This study focuses on aspects of the Changing Academic Profession survey of 2007-08 that describe the place of faculty in their institutions. The authors examine the following aspects of institutional life: (1) the faculty role in institutional governance; (2) who evaluates their teaching and research; (3) the locus of their loyalties as between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Teaching Conditions