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Geosciences didactic experiences as a key component in Education for Sustainable Development
No full textThis research project aims to contribute to the dissemination of Agenda 2030
for Sustainable Development topics among pupils and all school communities. Since
Geosciences intersect most of the Agenda 2030 Goals, Sustainable Development has
become one of the core subjects of this discipline, as well as teaching Geoscience
represents a key aspect of Education for Sustainability.
Several Geoscience topics, such as natural resources exploitation, responsible
consumption, ecological and water footprint, circular economy and waste reduction are
the main subjects addressed in this work. The choice of these research topics arises
from both the many connections between Sustainability and everyday lifestyles and
from their several linkages with different matters. This interdisciplinarity is in line with
the Italian School Citizenship education guidelines about Sustainable Development and
UNESCO key-competencies for Sustainability. In fact, Education for Sustainability is
one of the three main components of Citizenship Education that has become mandatory
for all Italian schools in the last two years. Moreover, the Italian School Department
established that Citizenship Education has to be addressed using multidisciplinary
approaches, involving all school’s teachers.
For this reason and in order to support educators in developing interdisciplinary
didactic pathways on Sustainability, I implemented some didactic activities with
comprehensive ready-to-use tools that make them easily replicable. Moreover, starting
from Geoscience educational experiences, like laboratorial activities about the water
and ecological footprint topics, teachers could approach socio-economic issues both
globally and locally with a contextualization in their own territory.
The study has been proposed with the dual purpose of spreading Earth
Sciences topics among k6-k8 students and of using them as interdisciplinary vectors in
order to promote eco-friendly behaviours. Understanding how to improve pupils' ability
to establish and justify the relationships between humans and the environment is
essential to make the younger generation become conscious and responsible towards
the environment itself.
The topics developed in this research project are, in detail:
1- The ecological footprint and ecological rucksack of everyday life simple
actions (like washing, eating, dressing...), with a special focus on natural resources
exploitation (water, soil), waste production and the responsible actions of reducing,
reusing, repairing and recycling. Team work and hands-on activities were carried out in
order to improve students’ awareness about these Sustainability subjects, linking them
to pupils’ real life.
2- Responsible food consumption and the ecological footprint of foods. Pupils
were engaged in a team-challenge game, to discuss and think critically about the
environmental impact of their daily diet, due to food production, transport, distribution
and packaging. Topics like water, carbon and ecological footprint were developed, as
well as agriculture and farming stress on our planet's health.
3- Agenda 2030 Goals (SDGs) and its call for immediate action towards
responsible lifestyles. The several interconnections between Geosciences and the
SDGs are deeply discussed with pupils and teachers, in order to highlight the key-role
of this discipline in Education for Sustainability. Agenda 2030 is the core issue of all the
activities realized for this research. Moreover, an educational game was developed,
completely dedicated to this UN plan of action. It is a cardboard Game, called
Sustainable City Game (S-City Game), planned in an interdisciplinary manner, that
proposes topics related to Agenda 2030 and Sustainability (like SDGs and targets,
circular economy, natural resources exploitation ...). Several school matters, such as
Science, Math, Geography, Technology, History and Citizenship were involved in this
game. As a follow-up work, a digital version of the S-City Game was developed, in order
to involve teachers and pupils from home, during COVID-19 lockdown.
Learning-by-doing, cooperative learning and learning-by-gaming are the
methodological approaches used for the activities tested. In order to involve pupils in
an active way and to make them think about simple responsible behaviours,
manipulation, team-work and gaming have proven to be very useful educational tools
to vehicle Sustainability topics.
The experimentation was carried out with k6-k8 students from different Italian
schools. The first segment of the project was tested through activities in presence, while
the second one was experimented through distance learning, because of the COVID-
19 crisis. In fact, the activities in presence are based on practical and hands-on
experiences, besides an educational cardboard game, called S-city game. As a follow-
up work, the digital version of S-city game, included in a virtual environment, was
implemented, in order to face the pandemic emergency that could stop the research
experimentation. On the contrary, the use of virtual environments and digital gaming
allowed us not only to reach students and teachers from different Italian regions, but
also to obtain good results in terms of learning and satisfaction. Nevertheless the
distance mode, the laboratorial didactic approach based on constructivism, continued
to characterize this research.
Thanks to the data collected during this PhD project experimentation, we can
positively evaluate the didactic activities tested that constitute effective educational
pathways for improving pupils' awareness towards eco-friendly and responsible
lifestyles
WASTEBERG: a didactic activity about waste and sustainable use of georesources in relation to the Agenda 2030
No full textNowadays, the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development is a key concept to be introduced in the Environmental Education at all school levels. Therefore, it is important that Science Curricula will be integrated with didactic paths, in order to make students approach the topics of the Agenda, making them easier to understand and suitable to be treated in classes of different grades. Geosciences can offer fruitful opportunities for the realization of many multidisciplinary teaching activities related to the Sustainable Development. Here we present a didactic activity about waste and circular economy, in line with Agenda 2030, which has been realized for 14-years-old students and tested both in the class and with a group of teachers. In the activity, topics like georesources, ore deposits, mining are approached, to explain the life cycle of packaging materials. The Wasteberg, a term firstly introduced by Young and Sachs (1994), was used here to name the activity, which was implemented from to the original concept to build an articulated didactic plan. By taking into consideration different types of packaging wastes, made of aluminum, glass, plastics and paper, the aim of the activity is to make the students understand that what is beyond common household waste can be represented by the shape of an iceberg. By using a familiar comparison, the objective of the activity was to attract the interest of students, increasing their understanding and awareness about nonrenewable resources and sustainable development, by making them focus on resources consumption and the energy flow behind any productive processes. Pupils, divided in groups, worked following the Inquiry Based Science Education approach (IBSE). The activity was carried out using also interdisciplinary aspects, involving in the experience the teachers of math, history, geography and technology. As a final outcome, the class determined the economic and environmental advantages that can be obtained by recycling waste materials
Lettera di Alessandra
No full textUn ritratto critico dell'opera di Alessandra Carnaroli, autrice fra le più apprezzate delle ultime generazioni della poesia di ricerca. La sezione a lei dedicata, nel numero della rivista, contiene inoltre saggi di Cecilia Bello Minciacchi, Andrea Cortellessa, e Ivan Schiavone; e vari inediti dell'autrice. Il saggio è pubblicato con lo pseudonimo di Tommaso Ottonieri.A critical portrait of the work of Alessandra Carnaroli, author of the most appreciated in the latest generations of italian research poetry. Published under the pseudonym Tommaso Ottonieri
Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi
No full textThe letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adverse circumstances, and who was an acute observer of Medicean society. Her letters speak of political and social status, of the concept of honor, and of the harshness of life, including the plague and the loss of children. They are also a guide to Alessandra's inner life over a period of twenty-three years, revealing the pain and sorrow, and, more rarely, the joy and triumph, with which she responded to the events unfolding around her.This edition includes translations, in full or in part, of 35 of the 73 extant letters. The selections carry forward the story of Alessandra's life and illustrate the range of attitudes, concerns, and activities which were characteristic of their author
Challenging the author: Gavin Douglas's Eneados
No full textGavin Douglas’s Eneados, a translation into the “Scottis” tongue of Virgil’s Aeneid, completed in 1513 and first published in London in 1553, presents, as well as the translation of the additional thirteenth book by Maphaeus Vegius, original prologues and marginal notes to the text, rubrics and articulate conclusive material. The present paper analyses this complex paratext as evidence of Douglas’s almost philological attention to the original and his preoccupation with a faithful reproduction; it is also suggested that the models for his organization of the commentary might be both medieval (i.e., manuscripts such as Petrarch’s Virgilius Ambrosianus) and early modern, as in the case of editions of classical works: the most apt example being Jodocus Badius Ascensius’ edition of the Aeneid, printed in 1501. The Eneados thus stands on the threshold between manuscript and print, and might have indicated new possibilities of use of the printing medium in Scotland, and of the value of the translation of a classical text, had history not intervened with the Scottish defeat at Flodden Fields in 1513, which put a temporary stop both to the circulation of the Eneados and to the development of Scottish printing
Nicetas Nicaenus, De azymis
No full textThe RAP online repertorium offers the first comprehensive catalogue of polemical literature related to the schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches from the 9th to the 16th century and can be described as an ideal continuation of the *Clavis Patrum*.
Each entry identifies the work (often unpublished or newly discovered in manuscript catalogs), lists its various titles (since medieval texts often lack stable titles), provides incipit and explicit (with possible variations), and examines the manuscript tradition and foliation (by reviewing catalogs or manuscripts, verifying dates, folios, etc.). It also includes relevant bibliography (critical editions and studies), identifies the author (using prosopographical studies, dictionaries, repertories, sigillography, etc.), and provides essential biographical details. Each work is classified by literary genre (e.g., treatise, dialogue), the corresponding Byzantine term, and the main polemical themes (e.g., Filioque, Azymes, Purgatory), and is assigned a unique RAP identification number.
The Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum is identified by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 3035-2096 [continuously updated publication
Polemica scripta anonyma, Dialogus inter Graecum et Cardinales quosdam de processione Spiritus Sancti
No full textThe RAP online repertorium offers the first comprehensive catalogue of polemical literature related to the schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches from the 9th to the 16th century and can be described as an ideal continuation of the *Clavis Patrum*.
Each entry identifies the work (often unpublished or newly discovered in manuscript catalogs), lists its various titles (since medieval texts often lack stable titles), provides incipit and explicit (with possible variations), and examines the manuscript tradition and foliation (by reviewing catalogs or manuscripts, verifying dates, folios, etc.). It also includes relevant bibliography (critical editions and studies), identifies the author (using prosopographical studies, dictionaries, repertories, sigillography, etc.), and provides essential biographical details. Each work is classified by literary genre (e.g., treatise, dialogue), the corresponding Byzantine term, and the main polemical themes (e.g., Filioque, Azymes, Purgatory), and is assigned a unique RAP identification number.
The Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum is identified by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 3035-2096 [continuously updated publication
Theophylactus Bulgariae archiepiscopus, Allocutio ad quemdam ex suis familiaribus de iis quorum Latini incusantur
No full textThe RAP online repertorium offers the first comprehensive catalogue of polemical literature related to the schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches from the 9th to the 16th century and can be described as an ideal continuation of the *Clavis Patrum*.
Each entry identifies the work (often unpublished or newly discovered in manuscript catalogs), lists its various titles (since medieval texts often lack stable titles), provides incipit and explicit (with possible variations), and examines the manuscript tradition and foliation (by reviewing catalogs or manuscripts, verifying dates, folios, etc.). It also includes relevant bibliography (critical editions and studies), identifies the author (using prosopographical studies, dictionaries, repertories, sigillography, etc.), and provides essential biographical details. Each work is classified by literary genre (e.g., treatise, dialogue), the corresponding Byzantine term, and the main polemical themes (e.g., Filioque, Azymes, Purgatory), and is assigned a unique RAP identification number.
The Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum is identified by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 3035-2096 [continuously updated publication
Polemica scripta anonyma, Contra unionem ecclesiarum
No full textThe RAP online repertorium offers the first comprehensive catalogue of polemical literature related to the schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches from the 9th to the 16th century and can be described as an ideal continuation of the *Clavis Patrum*.
Each entry identifies the work (often unpublished or newly discovered in manuscript catalogs), lists its various titles (since medieval texts often lack stable titles), provides incipit and explicit (with possible variations), and examines the manuscript tradition and foliation (by reviewing catalogs or manuscripts, verifying dates, folios, etc.). It also includes relevant bibliography (critical editions and studies), identifies the author (using prosopographical studies, dictionaries, repertories, sigillography, etc.), and provides essential biographical details. Each work is classified by literary genre (e.g., treatise, dialogue), the corresponding Byzantine term, and the main polemical themes (e.g., Filioque, Azymes, Purgatory), and is assigned a unique RAP identification number.
The Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum is identified by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 3035-2096 [continuously updated publication
Petrus Antiochenus ptr. III, Epistulae de schisma
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The RAP online repertorium offers the first comprehensive catalogue of polemical literature related to the schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches from the 9th to the 16th century and can be described as an ideal continuation of the *Clavis Patrum*.
Each entry identifies the work (often unpublished or newly discovered in manuscript catalogs), lists its various titles (since medieval texts often lack stable titles), provides incipit and explicit (with possible variations), and examines the manuscript tradition and foliation (by reviewing catalogs or manuscripts, verifying dates, folios, etc.). It also includes relevant bibliography (critical editions and studies), identifies the author (using prosopographical studies, dictionaries, repertories, sigillography, etc.), and provides essential biographical details. Each work is classified by literary genre (e.g., treatise, dialogue), the corresponding Byzantine term, and the main polemical themes (e.g., Filioque, Azymes, Purgatory), and is assigned a unique RAP identification number.
The Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum is identified by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 3035-2096 [continuously updated publication
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