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    Information literacy education in the UK: reflections on perspectives and practical approaches of curricular integration

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    This paper has two main aims, to present the current position of information literacy education in UK-based academic institutions and to propose a strategy that ensures the integration of this phenomenon in learning and teaching institutional practices. The first part of the paper offers an insight into the perceptions of information literacy by exploring four distinct perspectives, including the institutional angle and the views associated with faculty staff, library staff and students. What transpires from the findings is that information literacy from an institutional perspective is dominated by the need to measure information skills within the context of information as a discipline in its own right. Another issue that is raised by the data points to a great deal of misinformation regarding information literacy, and that, as a result, a clear marketing strategy must be adopted by information professionals to address the misconceptions held by faculty staff and students alike. We aim to address these points by drawing on recent scholarship and research in the field which demonstrates the validity of information literacy as a process for fostering independent learning. The second part of the paper explains how a Fellowship project has placed information literacy on the pedagogical agenda of the University of Staffordshire in the UK by promoting information literacy education as an integrated element of the curriculum

    Movimenti sociali e sfide globali: politica, antipolitica e nuova politica dopo l’11 settembre

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    This article discusses the effects of the terroristic attacks of September 11th 2001 on social movements, in particular on peace activism. It presents the results of an empirical research carried out through structured questionnaires, administered to participants at the peace march (Perugia-Assisi) that took place on October 2001, that are compared with those collected among activists of the protest against the G8 in July 2001 in Genoa. September 11th had considerable effects on the conditions of movement's development, focusing attention on the issue of peace, emphasizing the need for nonviolent strategies, stressing the urgency of a "politics from below". If the opposition to the war and terrorism became a common discoursive frame, there is still a tension an interpretation of the war as a consequence of imperialistic relations and a more nuanced cultural and ethical interpretation. In the field of the action repertoires, both the experiences in Genoa and the need to also symbolically differentiating the movement strategies from both "militaristic" and terrorist behaviors pushed towards a more decisive choice for non-violent tactics, without however excluding direct action as unconventional, disruptive forms of protest, such as occupations, goins end, more in general, acts of civil disobedience. With respect to the organizational structure, the local social forum represents experiments in deliberative democracy and the search for local solution to global problems. Efforts towards permanent coordination and intervention in national politics produced, however, tensions and competition within the movement. The attitudes of the peace activists confirm a criticism towards representative forms of democracy and a criticism of the "institutional Left", already emerged in Genoa - a criticism reflected in the mistrust of the center-left parties towards the aims and the forms of the mobilization against neoliberal globalization. The article concludes with a reflection upon the emerging characters of the movement for globalization from below, and therefore the need to adapt some concepts and hypotheses coming from the sociology of social movement

    Russamento e apnea notturna nell’adulto

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    È importante il ruolo del logopedista nel riconoscere i segni e i sintomi dei disturbi respiratori del sonno per segnalare e indirizzare il paziente al medico di riferimento. Il logopedista esperto, in motricità orofacciale, è in posizione privilegiata per identificare i segni e i sintomi dei disturbi respiratori del sonno poiché conosce gli aspetti anatomo funzionali e le strategie rieducative-riabilitative che riguardo il complesso orofacciale. I disturbi respiratori del sonno sono una disfunzione, con caratteristiche di patologia, comune e spesso sottostimata nella popolazione generale. Ritenere la “stimolazione ed il rinforzo” delle strutture muscolari e delle funzioni oro facciali come uno dei trattamenti possibili per i disturbi respiratori del sonno nell’adulto è importante: tale considerazione valorizza l’importanza della logopedia in ogni forma patologica che sia espressione di una alterazione funzionale. In questo caso il trattamento logopedico intende produrre una stimolazione isotonica ed isometrica dei fasci muscolari interessati alla respirazione. I disturbi respiratori del sonno possono comprendere russamento, respiro russante o rumoroso, sindrome dell’aumentata resistenza delle prime vie aeree, sindrome dell’apnea ostruttiva del sonno, sindrome di apnea ipopnea ostruttiva del sonno, sindrome della ipoventilazione centrale cronica, sindrome da deficit dell’attenzione, sindrome della morte improvvisa del neonato e sindrome della stanchezza cronica. Ovviamente tra i più rilevanti e di interesse per il mondo odontoiatrico e logopedico vi sono il russamento e la sindrome dell’apnee ostruttive del sonno (OSAS, Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome)
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