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Contesti educativi eterogenei e nuove tecnologie. Una ricerca multi-metodologica
No full textScopo del seguente lavoro è presentare una ricerca di dottorato in Comunicazione Multimediale (XXV ciclo, 2010-2012), riguardante l'utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie in ambito pedagogico interculturale. In particolare, attraverso una ricerca interpretativa, multi-metodologica, svolta parimenti in ambito educativo formale e non formale, si è cercato di comprendere se e come i nuovi media possono favorire il processo di interazione tra i giovani di origine immigrata e gli autoctoni. Nel presente lavoro verranno presentati i riferimenti teorici, gli obiettivi, le attività e i risultati ottenuti dallo studio, dando tuttavia maggior risalto alle tecniche di raccolta e analisi dei dati
L’utilizzo di un software per l’analisi nella ricerca qualitativa. Potenziali e limiti di NVivo in un progetto fenomenologico-ermeneutico
No full textIl contributo presenterà una riflessione critica relativa all’utilizzo del software NVivo all’interno progetto di ricerca qualitativa, finalizzata a indagare l’incontro nella pratica professionale tra il sapere pedagogico e quello medico/sanitario. Riferendosi a un approccio qualitativo, il progetto si è basato sul metodo fenomenologico-ermeneutico e sulla strategia dello studio di caso. Per raccogliere i dati sono stati utilizzati l’osservazione etnografica, l’intervista semi-strutturata, la pratica del collage-making, il diario di ricerca. L’analisi del materiale, effettuata seguendo il modello fenomenologico-ermeneutico, è stata supportata da NVivo. La conoscenza del software, approfondita prima del suo impiego, ha permesso di utilizzarlo come ausilio per accompagnare il lavoro di analisi, non in sostituzione all’interpretazione della ricercatrice. Riprendendo questa esperienza, il contributo presenterà aspetti positivi e difficoltà incontrati nell’utilizzo di NVivo, evidenziando come l’uso di un software per l’analisi qualitativa, e nello specifico nell’approccio fenomenologico-ermeneutico, passi inevitabilmente attraverso l’insostituibile pensiero del ricercatore
The good European citizen: Person-centred analysis of citizenship norms and their correlates in young people from eight European countries
Get PDFWithin the academic debate about good citizenship, several authors have emphasized different possible notions – such as adhesion to more traditional-elitist, solidarity-based or participative norms (Denters, Gabriel, & Torcal, 2007). Recently, scholars have proposed the use of person- centred approaches to analyze typologies of good citizenship conceptions (Hooghe, Oser & Marien, 2016; Reichert, 2016). The existing studies have not addressed until now the European political context or investigated ideas of good citizenship related to a supranational level. The present study examines by means of latent profile analysis young people’s patterns of adhesion to different notions about what is a good European citizen and investigates how the different groups are characterized by socio-demographic characteristics, levels of participation and perceptions of belonging or political alienation related to the European context. The study is part of the Catch-EyoU project and uses the pilot questionnaire data with a sample of 994 respondents from two age groups –adolescents (16-19 years old, 52.7%) and young adults (20-26 years old, 47.3%)– collected in eight European countries. The results identified five different profiles that distinguished between youth who held a mixed conception of the good European citizen (where different normative ideas coexist), groups that emphasized a particular view and a pattern of low adhesion to all theorized conceptions. While most respondents give high importance on both traditional and more participative norms, the findings confirm the existence of comparatively more passive views and of a critically oriented group differentiated by more negative perception of the European context
Bank Restructuring, Competition, and Lending Supply: Evidence from the Spanish Banking Sector
No full textThis article analyses the effects of the bank restructuring process performed in Spain between 2010 and 2016. First, we create a unique dataset by combining information from Bankscope and the Table of Public Financial Assistance released by the Bank of Spain. Second, we investigate whether these reforms affected (i) the stability, (ii) the degree of competition, and (iii) lending and liquidity supply of the Spanish banking industry. The main results suggest that the restructuring process reduced the degree of competition but increased financial stability in the Spanish banking industry. In particular, we find that two divergent forces affected the Spanish financial stability. On the one hand, the bail out dampened financial instability. On the other hand, the increasing bank market power fostered financial stability (i.e., lower risk-taking behaviour). Furthermore, we demonstrate that the restructuring process: (i) increased the Lerner index, (ii) did not increase the collusion among banks (iii) diminished the gap in cost efficiency between weak and healthy banks. Finally, we find that there are not improvements in lending and liquidity supply
Il «genere» nelle parole di bambine e bambini di scuola primaria in Italia: tra stereotipi ed esperienze / Gender through primary school children’s perspective in Italy: between stereotypes and experiences
No full textGender education is currently facing a huge challenge. On the one side, it is trying to break free from several and malicious accusations produced by a suspicious context
against the term “gender” and on the other, it is trying to make every form of education as a “gender” one, in the sense of a respectful educative action for the several forms of expressions of a flexible and dynamic identity. On this basis, this paper aim is to present some of the results of a research project conducted in Italy to investigate children's representations about two individual elements of differences through focus groups, i.e. gender and skin color. Children's dialogues and conversations related to gender identity, gender stereotypes, sexual identity and sexual orientation were encouraged by some photos and children also showed a considerable reflexive competence in relation to
these “gender” issues
Il sistema di allenamento analogico/simbolico nello sport della pallavolo: Una valutazione delle componenti mnesitico/attentive
Get PDFI benefici che l’attività motoria opera sia nell’età adulta che durante l’infanzia sono molteplici. Tra questi, si annoverano i miglioramenti delle abilità percettive, attentive e mnestiche. Lo scopo del presente lavoro è verificare se le capacità mnestiche ed attentive possano essere incrementate dalla messa in opera di un’offerta formativa specifica. Due gruppi di bambini, di età compresa tra i sei e i dieci anni sono stati avviati al gioco della pallavolo. Un gruppo è stato allenato con un metodo che carica di significati i movimenti corporei dell’allenatore e dei compagni al fine di associare tali movimenti allo svolgimento di future indicazioni da eseguire (Pittera, Pedata e Ligas, 2008). L’altro gruppo ha svolto esercizi propedeutici alla pallavolo attraverso la focalizzazione sull’apprendimento dei gesti tecnici. La differenza tra i dati raccolti all’inizio e alla fine del periodo di allenamento preso in esame evidenziarono un miglioramento della capacità di ricordare azioni motorie; nessun miglioramento apparve però per quanto ha riguardato il numero di posizioni spaziali o il numero di componenti verbali da ricordare. Sorprendentemente, poi, nessun miglioramento emerse nelle misure di attenzione sostenuta. I risultati suggeriscono come, focalizzando l’attenzione dei discenti sugli aspetti motori dell’esercizio, e facendo in modo che questi aumentino di significato al fine della successiva realizzazione di nuovi compiti, si possa aumentare una capacità basilare di ogni apprendimento sportivo, ovvero la capacità di ricordare nuove azioni
PERCEIVE project - Deliverable D2.2 “Mapping the determinants of EU citizen’s perception and identification”
Get PDFWhy individuals identify with Europe? In the absence of direct personal experiences with the EU and with people of other member states, how can the identification with the European project be developed? Despite the great number of EU competences, legislation and policy programmes, they are mostly implemented by member states. Are these EU policies amplifying citizens’ exposure to the idea of the EU? And finally, are citizens aware of the aims and perceive the benefits of the Cohesion Policy? If so, does it contribute to strengthen the shared political values under the European Social Model and, consequently, is it a driver of the identification with Europe? Giving answer to these questions is the main objective of this deliverable.
This work tries to give some light to answer, at least partially, these questions by means of a key assumption. For most people in Europe, their experience with the EU takes place in the national political arena. In fact, one of the major EU policies is the Cohesion Policy that accounts for some 350 billion euros in the 2007-2013 programming period, about a third of total EU budget. Still, this policy is managed mostly locally. When individuals think on Europe they usually do it from a local point of view. The consequences of European integration depend not only on EU policies but also on how national, regional and local governments manage them.
The Cohesion Policy is basically a regional development policy. Consequently, the territorial dimension is a key aspect that needs to be considered. In fact, most imbalances in economic and social (e.g. education) terms take place within every country and even within every region. In this respect, the perception of the Cohesion Policy and their impact on the development of a European identity could well vary between individuals in rural and urban areas. Therefore, we provide a specific look at the urban – rural divide of the way mechanisms and determinants impact on citizens’ European identification
Enhancing the Spectral Hardening of Cosmic TeV Photons by Mixing with Axionlike Particles in the Magnetized Cosmic Web
Get PDFLarge-scale extragalactic magnetic fields may induce conversions between very-high-energy photons
and axionlike particles (ALPs), thereby shielding the photons from absorption on the extragalactic
background light. However, in simplified "cell" models, used so far to represent extragalactic
magnetic fields, this mechanism would be strongly suppressed by current astrophysical bounds. Here
we consider a recent model of extragalactic magnetic fields obtained from large-scale cosmological
simulations. Such simulated magnetic fields would have large enhancement in the filaments of matter.
As a result, photon-ALP conversions would produce a significant spectral hardening for cosmic
TeV photons. This effect would be probed with the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array detector.
This possible detection would give a unique chance to perform a tomography of the magnetized
cosmic web with ALPs
Simulations of extragalactic magnetic fields and of their observables
Get PDFThe origin of extragalactic magnetic fields is still poorly understood. Based on a dedicated suite of cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations with the ENZO code we have performed a survey of different models that may have caused present-day magnetic fields in galaxies and galaxy clusters. The outcomes of these models differ in cluster outskirts, filaments, sheets and voids and we use these simulations to find observational signatures of magnetogenesis. With these simulations, we predict the signal of extragalactic magnetic fields in radio observations of synchrotron emission from the cosmic web, in Faraday rotation, in the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays, in the polarized signal from fast radio bursts at cosmological distance and in spectra of distant blazars. In general, primordial scenarios in which present-day magnetic fields originate from the amplification of weak (⩽nG ) uniform seed fields result in more homogeneous and relatively easier to observe magnetic fields than astrophysical scenarios, in which present-day fields are the product of feedback processes triggered by stars and active galaxies. In the near future the best evidence for the origin of cosmic magnetic fields will most likely come from a combination of synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation observed at the periphery of large-scale structures
SUPARSTHAS and SWAGWAUTAS: Colonisers of the Ancient World. Part II: Late migrations.
No full textIn the second part of this study the main migrations of the peoples descending from *Suparsthas and *Swagwautas are reconstructed in Asia and Europe from the second millennium BC to the tenth AD. The role of Etruscan relative peoples in the evolution of Indo-European nations and languages is investigated and highlighted