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    Clues to The Winds Directions: Sailing on Teachers' Beliefs About Cultural Diversity. Results from A Semi-Structured Interview in The Italian Context.

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    This article analyses the results of semi-structured interviews conducted with 45 Italian in-service primary school teachers. Starting from a problem frame that highlights how important and necessary it is to work with teachers, this qualitative study focuses on determining what the teachers' beliefs on cultural diversity were and how their beliefs about diversity influences their planning and their practices. The data shows a gap between the theoretical achievements and policy documents of intercultural education confronted with teachers' beliefs and practices

    Passaggio a Nord-Ovest: esplorazione delle concezioni degli insegnanti tra teoria e prassi interculturale

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    This paper exposes the design and results of a research aimed to study in-service primary teachers’ conceptions about cultural diversity, by using integrated qualitative analysis instruments.Il contributo descrive le risultanze di una ricerca che ha indagato le concezioni sulladiversità culturale di insegnanti di scuola primaria in servizio attraverso un approccio integrato a matrice qualitativa

    L'intercultura in pratica. Una ricerca sulle concezioni degli insegnanti e del loro peso in classe

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    This article outlines an ongoing research on in-service primary teachers’ beliefs about cultural diversity in regards to the transition from theory to practice. On the basis of a model-based approach, and using an epistemological model especially useful to chance, it provides an analysis of the theoretical investigation, since this aspect directly affected the empirical investigation’s methodological choices, such as the qualitative approach and a limited sample. The first findings from the interview’s analysis indicate the participants’ rhetoric inconsistency between saying and doing. Therefore, it is even more important to move forward with the next steps so to best understand the effects of beliefs on teachers’ practice and to implement their awareness and empowerment in a reflexive processes of change. *** L’articolo traccia il quadro di un’indagine, tutt’ora in corso, relativa alle concezioni degli insegnati sulla diversità culturale e come queste si riflettano concretamente sul piano didattico, seguendo la complessa ricorsività teoria-pratica propria dell’educativo. A partire da un inquadramento di significato, viene dato conto dapprima dell’impianto teorico, che si fonda su un preciso approccio modellistico e, successivamente, vengono illustrate le scelte metodologiche relative al piano empirico, che, coerentemente con le ragioni dell’indagine, prevede una base circoscritta. Vengono infine presentati i primi risultati, dai quali emerge una diffusa incongruenza tra le dichiarazioni astratte e quelle relative alle pratiche messe in atto. Da qui è possibile delineare sia gli sviluppi dell’indagine, sia le strategie per sostenere uno sviluppo formativo delle concezioni degli insegnanti ed una loro maggiore efficacia pratic

    Educational critical events in multicultural residential care communities

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    This paper refers to the initial part of an action-research (Cohen, Manion & Morrison, 2017; McAteer, 2013; Kemmis, 2010) that aims to realise these purposes to positively impact the educational intervention regarding minors accommodated in residential care facilities. Thus, it highlights the process underpinning the whole study and focuses specifically on its first phase, dedicated to the identification of the educational issues most challenging the operators in charge of the minors. To accomplish this objective, 57 coordinators and educators of residential care facilities for minors were involved. Preliminarily, the educators filled in a form to determine the critical events perceived as most challenging in their educational work. Then, the facilities’ coordinators reflected on the issue during focus groups, coming to distinguish five descriptors for each critical event and ordering them by severity. The output was a self-assessment form useful to trigger discussion and reflection in the next research phase

    L’utilità delle situazioni difficili. Una ricerca-azione su eventi critici e pratiche educative nelle comunità per minori

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    This action-research engages the Juvenile Justice Centre of Venice and 9 Residential Care Services of Triveneto that house minors who have committed offences (Art. 22 of DPR 448/88) to identify, formalize and evaluate shared methods of educational work. Considering the indispensable functions of the Residential Care Services for these children (Leloux-Opmeer et al., 2016; Carrà, 2014; Del Valle, Bravo, 2013), and critical issues about the effectiveness of educational actions in these contexts highlighted in literature (Marchesini, Monacelli, Molinari, 2019; Palareti, Berti, Bastianoni, 2006; Barth, 2005), the investigation has a pragmatic intent and interprets difficult situations as pivotal. A series of focus groups are in place to identify critical events, promoting dialogue and dissemination: the aim is to share elements related to the system of taking charge and effectively building on the mandate to foster successful educational processes.La ricerca-azione coinvolge il Centro di Giustizia Minorile di Venezia e 9 Comunità del Triveneto che accolgono minori autori di reati penali (Art. 22 del D.P.R. 448/88) al fine di individuare, formalizzare e valutare modalità condivise di lavoro educativo da mettere a sistema. Poste le funzioni indispensabili delle comunità per minori (Leloux-Opmeer et al., 2016; Carrà, 2014; Del Valle, Bravo, 2013), e le criticità rilevate rispetto all'efficacia degli interventi educativi di questi servizi (Marchesini, Monacelli, Molinari, 2019; Palareti, Berti, Bastianoni, 2006; Barth, 2005), l’indagine ha un intento pragmatista e vede come cardine le situazioni difficili (Mortari, 2013). Una serie di focus group sono volti ad individuare eventi critici per promuovere dialogo, confronto e condivisione di elementi relativi al sistema di presa in carico e di costruzione del mandato con l’obiettivo di favorire i processi educativi ed il loro l’esito positivo
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