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Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention di Michael Flood, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2018
Get PDFAnne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello eds, The Global Lives of Things: The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World, London and New York: Routledge 2016
No full textAAVV, Civilizing Emotions Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe, Oxford Oxford University Press 2015
Get PDFIpotesi di quadratura del cerchio. Diseguaglianze, chances di vita e politica sociale in Ralf Dahrendorf
No full textIn this article, the objective is to retrace the Dahrendorf’s analysis of the relationship between inequality, life chances and social policy. Dahrendorf’s way of conceiving social policy, functional to the expansion of life chances, constitutes, in fact, an original approach to the question of social inequality in terms not only of analytics but also of social and political governance. He considers the problem of inequality in the 21st century a matter of entitlements, not merely of available wealth. To propose the actualization of the Dahrendorf’s theory, we focus on the minimum basic income and the issue of civil rights of citizenship on a transnational/global scale. The conclusions discuss the hypothesis that the expansion of life chances requires a new social policy based on a long-term perspective, the reference to values of solidarity, linked to the ethics of public service, and requires a democratic institutional framework anchored in the rule of law
Beyond the Bad Quarto: Exploring the Vernacular Afterlife of Early Modern Drama
Get PDFAlongside the irregular ‘stage history’, early English plays also had a ‘vernacular afterlife’, comprising both a professional strand of performances by strolling players and puppet-masters, and a ‘folk’ strand of performances by local youths under customary, festive auspices. And while continuity on the high road of theatrical performance, thanks to intervening revolutions in staging and production, is mainly literary, continuity along the low road of the vernacular afterlife, thanks to intervening textual degradation, is more in regard to performance aspects, offering a different set of insights, not least on the matter of relationships between performance and text. Of the various options available, the article undertakes comparative analyses juxtaposing passages found in mummers’ plays from ca 1780-1920 with their sources in specific early English stage productions (two plays, an opera, a Tudor interlude, and a droll). They reveal the impact on texts of both re-contextualization and recollection from memory in performance, and point to areas inviting further research, including the persisting significance of the Clown, and a neglected folk drama of amateur, festive performances independent of the mummers’ plays, of which a concluding illustration is provided. The exercise is also designed to open up a new research avenue between Theatre History and Folklore, with folk traditions now seen as derivative from, rather than a source for, theatre productions
The potential for pesticide trunk injections for control of thousand cankers disease of walnut
Get PDFThousand cankers disease, caused by the pathogen Geosmithia morbida vectored by the bark beetle Pityophthorus juglandis, has emerged as an important disease of walnut trees in Europe. The present study was performed to evaluate the efficacy of trunk injections of four commercial fungicides and one insecticide for control of the fungus and its vector. Laboratory tests indicated that fungicides containing prochloraz + tetraconazole were the most effective. Field trials on non-infected trees allowed for the selection of a mixture containing prochloraz and tetraconazole (Binal Pro), the insecticide abamectin (Vertimec EC) and the adjuvant 2-(2-ethoxyethoxy) ethanol (CarbitolTM) as having rapid host uptake. Injections of this formulation in naturally infected black walnut trees reduced the presence of G. morbida, supporting trunk injection as an efficient and low impact technique to manage fungal damage on infected trees
Il senso della morte in adolescenza: scoperta della caducità umana e risposta pedagogica
Get PDFWithin adolescence transformation the encounter with the sense of death is crucial, despite is not highlighted in pedagogical and educational reflection. The adolescent deep metamorphosis, considering physical, psychological, social and relational change determined by puberty beginning, lead the subject to know sensations and emotions that have mourning characteristics, and more precisely self mourning, meaning all cognitive and emotional experiences that loss brings. A dimension of being and becoming that has to be necessarily considered by those who reflect on education and those who assist adolescents in their growing process. Accompanying, in an educational way, the adolescent subject on the discovery of death meaning allows to avoid individual and collective removals, which is one of the most tragical aspects of contemporary life, and allows a positive relapse compared to self relationship and with own social dimension
From Competence Curriculum Design to Assessment and Certification of Achievement: two empirical models for TEFL
Get PDFBoth the national and international literature identifies the development of design and assessment competences as a fundamental component in the professionalization of primary school teachers. This paper considers theoretical and methodological aspects of EFL curriculum design as it is addressed in Italy.Two empirical models are discussed: (i) a competence design model called the CUD Mod., based on the ‘competence unit’, and (ii) a model for achievement assessment and certification called ARCA. Both models were tested in action-research projects carried out in first-cycle schools in Tuscany.The contribution reflects on the experience which might also benefit other school contexts
