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Jorge Molder: 'I’m a photographer in particular'. Interview with Claudio Rozzoni
Get PDFThis is the text of the Claudio Rozzoni's interview with Jorge Molder that took place in Portuguese on June 21, 2018, at the artist's atelier in Lisbon. English translation by Claudio Rozzoni
Aesthetics and Politics of the Fashion Image: A Queer Perspective
Get PDFThis essay theorizes the fashion photographic image as a privileged site for queer sensory experience. It takes the stance that the aesthetic engagement with the fashion image occurs through sensation, and more precisely, through a haptic and periperformative experience that activates desires, meanings, and fantasies. Through the circulation of feelings sparked via the sensorial experiencing of the photo, queer subjects can sense belongings and form affiliations that bind them in an egalitarian community of sense exceeding sexual and social differences. A queer theory of fashion photography does not posit that the photographic image may foster propositional knowledge in the viewers, but rather that it moves them to engage corporeally with the image and triggers their imagination to configure new affective modes of being in the world
The Ontology of Photography A Reassessment
Get PDFThis paper explores some issues concerning the ontology of photography. It would appear that photography’s ontology bears some significant specificities comparing with other art forms. First, the study of negative film and printed photograph relations shows us that photography has a multi-layered ontology, since although the latter is ontologically dependent upon the former, it stands autonomously as work of art. Second, I will consider the problem of forgery in photography. It seems that photographs are autographic and allographic, fakeable and unfakeable. Third, ontological status of negative film will be explored. Apparently, current ontological categories aren’t pertinent as far as negative-photograph’s ontology is concerned. That’s why, relying on Gérard Genette ontological notions, I propose to consider the negative film as «immanence» and the printed photograph as work’s «transcendence». In this regard, printed photograph functions as a manifestation of the negative film
Deifying Beauty. Toward the Definition of a Paradigm for Byzantine Aesthetics
Get PDFMoving from the problem of defining how medieval speculation conceived the aesthetic dimension of art, this essay purposes an insight into the aspects that describe the peculiarity of the Byzantine conception of beauty and art. Surpassing the noetic perspective established by Platonic thought – shared also by Western medieval philosophy – according to which beauty is an intelligible model subsisting in itself as an autonomous entity, the Byzantine proper vision conceives beauty as a divine energy. The implications of this perspective lead us to investigate its connection with some of the most original achievements of Byzantine speculation, such as hypostatic ontology, theology of deification, eikonic thinking, and especially sophianic gnoseology, which permit us to overcome the dichotomy of the intelligible and the sensible domains of reality
At the beginning was the decree. Towards a shared design process between insiders and outsiders
Get PDFThe article describes the collaborative research carried out for the co-design of the Program for professional socio-pedagogical educator. Starting from the analysis of the laws and regulations defining normative parameters, using the results of the TECO-D project, the work reconstructs the elements of the research conducted with educators working in the professional sectors interested by the Program. The collaborative methodology implemented has made possible identifying four core contents: situated theories, methodologies of investigation, verification of the effectiveness of the educational action, conflicts between colleagues. In principio era il decreto. Verso una progettazione condivisa tra insider e outsiderIl contributo descrive la ricerca collaborativa condotta per la co-progettazione del Corso intensivo di formazione per la qualifica di educatore professionale socio-pedagogico. Partendo dall’analisi della traiettoria legislativa che ne ha definito normativamente i parametri, utilizzando il lavoro di ricerca svolto nel progetto TECO-D, si arriva a ricostruire gli elementi della ricerca condotta insieme ad educatori e coordinatori dei servizi che operano nei settori professionali interessati dal corso di formazione. La metodologia collaborativa attuata ha permesso di individuare quattro contenuti ritenuti centrali dai partecipanti alla ricerca: Teorie situate, metodologie d’indagine, verifica dell’efficacia dell’azione educativa, conflitti tra colleghi
Reflexive competence of adult education professionals in political adult education
Get PDFThe article examines the reflexive competence for professionals in adult education, mainly political adult education. Reflexive competences can solve teaching tasks in settings, in which adult learners are confronting with challenging current topics, such as populism and Euroscepticism. In spite of their differences, these two political phenomena demand innovative pedagogical approaches. A meta-level analysis of the reflexive competence highlights, on the one hand, the ways in which it can be fostered in adult learners, so that they may be capable to handle political questions in a holistic perspective, and, at the same time, how adult educators can master it both as a pedagogical strategy and a self-reflection process. Both analytic and descriptive considerations are provided, drawing on the different aspects defining the reflexive competence in the light of political education, so as to contribute to the professional development of adult educators and to improve practice in didactical settings. La competenza riflessiva dei professionisti dell'educazione degli adulti nelle politiche di educazione degli adultiL’articolo si propone di analizzare la competenza riflessiva, necessaria per tutti i professionisti che lavorano nell’ambito dell’educazione degli adulti e con responsabilità politiche. Le competenze riflessive aiutano nel far fronte a sfide, complesse ed attuali, come il populismo e l’euroscetticismo. Seppure essi siano fenomeni distinti, entrambi richiedono la definizione di approcci pedagogici innovativi. Una analisi meta-livello della competenza riflessiva è utile per evidenziare i modi in cui essa può essere promossa tra adulti in apprendimento capaci di acquisire da un lato strumenti utili per la gestione di processi decisionali con approccio olistico e dall’altro per definire strategie educative e processi di riflessività. Il contributo offre elementi descrittivi e di analisi a partire dalle varie componenti della competenza riflessiva nelle politiche educative in quanto rilevanti per lo sviluppo professionale dei professionisti dei processi formativi e per il miglioramento di pratiche e azioni educative
ECEC in the European Union: analysis and governance of ECEC systems of four Member States
Get PDFThis paper explores Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Italy – with a focus on Tuscany – and in three EU Member States, namely Finland, France, and Germany. In order to better understand the ECEC systems, a snapshot of the regulatory framework related to ECEC in the EU is provided at the beginning. Then, the analysis of the ECEC systems is around five topics, accompanied by some socio-demographical data, especially on female employment. The topics are: the type of Early Childhood Education and Care system selected, with a focus on the administrative and political aspects; the articulation of Early Childhood Education and Care services; the percentage of use; roles, the tasks and training of professionals involved in ECEC; the services-family and local communities relationship.L’ECEC nell’Unione Europea: analisi e governance dei sistemi di educazione e cura dell’infanzia di quattro Paesi membriQuesto saggio esplora la Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) presente in Italia – con focus sul sistema di educazione e cura dell’infanzia toscano – e in tre Stati membri UE, quali Finlandia, Francia e Germania, scelti perché ritenuti particolarmente rappresentativi. L’analisi dell’ECEC nei Paesi selezionati è preceduta da una ricostruzione sintetica della cornice normativa UE che regola l’educazione e cura dell’infanzia, nell’ottica di permetterne un miglior inquadramento, ed è articolata in cinque punti tematici, introdotti da alcuni dati socio-demografici, relativi soprattutto all’occupazione femminile e utili a contestualizzare: tipologia del sistema ECEC analizzato, sotto il profilo politico-amministrativo; articolazione dei servizi; percentuali di fruizione; ruoli e formazione dei professionisti coinvolti nell’ECEC; relazione tra servizi educativi, famiglie e territorio
Making educational planning: skills, methodologies, experiences
Get PDFThe ability to design effective educational interventions requires education and training professionals to deal with methodological, institutional and experiential issues. Through the first of these plans they develop the basic teaching skills to write, start and manage a project; with the second they face the organizational and management dynamics to develop a network project with public and third sector services; finally, the last plan helps them to expand their skills in supporting projects in complex and differentiated contexts. In this perspective, the theme of educational planning is therefore of strategic importance in supporting the profile of the L19 educator, which in the synthesis proposed by the authors appears as a professional able to build a project, share it with institutional stakeholders and implement it in dynamic conditions and constantly evolving. Fare progettazione educativa: competenze, metodologie, esperienzeLa capacità di progettare interventi educativi efficaci impone ai professionisti dell’educazione e della formazione di confrontarsi sul piano metodologico, istituzionale ed esperienziale. Attraverso il primo di questi piani essi sviluppano le competenze didattiche fondamentali per scrivere, avviare e gestire un progetto; con il secondo affrontano le dinamiche organizzative e gestionali per sviluppare un progetto in rete con i servizi alla persona pubblici e del terzo settore; l’ultimo piano infine li aiuta ad ampliare le proprie capacità nel sostenere progetti in contesti complessi e differenziati. In tale prospettiva il tema della progettazione educativa riveste una importanza strategica nel sostenere il profilo dell’educatore della L19, che nella sintesi proposta dagli Autori appare come un professionista in grado di costruire un progetto, condividerlo con gli stakeholder istituzionali ed attuarlo in condizioni dinamiche e in continua evoluzione
Required competences and specific training for learning tutor
Get PDFThe present contribution wants to start a reflection on the evolution of the professional educator role given the recent normative interventions and some new circles of intervention. Starting from a synthesis of research about the courses that in Italy are proposed today for the formation of tutor learning, the following job proposes a pedagogic reading of this new profile. It appears a well-defined frame of functions that however needs a more suitable definition in terms of formation and professional identity, not always so anchored to educational knowledges and postures. Il tutor dell’apprendimento tra competenze richieste e formazione specificaIl presente contributo intende avviare una riflessione sull’evoluzione della figura dell’educatore professionale alla luce dei recenti interventi normativi e di alcuni nuovi ambiti di intervento. Partendo da una sintesi di ricerca sui corsi che vengono proposti oggi in Italia per la formazione di tutor di apprendimento, il seguente lavoro propone una lettura pedagogica di questo nuovo profilo. Ne emerge un quadro di funzioni ben definito che necessita però di una più adeguata definizione in termini di formazione e di identità professionale, non sempre così ancorata a saperi e posture educative
Tra deprivazione e homelessness: la povertà delle donne nell’Italia di oggi
Get PDFThe lack of adequate resources for many women and their households can leads to significant economic difficulties, often resulting in an inability to acquire essential goods and services. The purpose of the paper is to analyse the female condition of poverty distinguishing by different characteristics and degrees of distress, also taking into account the role of women in the household. The measures of deprivation, absolute poverty and extreme poverty allow to draw a picture of the economically vulnerable population and its composition in different groups. Identifying different groups means also identifying policy targets and tailoring interventions to different paths of exclusion, that can be more or less dependent on labour market participation, income sources, health conditions or social networks reliability.