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The 'Caring' Approach: A Theoretical Basis for Comprehensive Sexuality Education
No full textThe paper presents a theoretical and empirical research to frame Sexuality Education (SE) within an
innovative reference: the Theory of Care.
SE is recognized by the world's leading health and educational institutions necessary to promote the health
and full development of young people. The most recent research recommends a model called
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), a curriculum-based approach that goes beyond a strictly
health risk prevention vision to include the cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality.
In 2024, Italy is one of the very few European countries that have not yet made SE mandatory in schools:
current initiatives are fragmented, while Italian students, who understand the value of SE, consider the
context school to be most appropriate. In response to this gap, the EduForIST project “Development of
technical-practical tools for carrying out educational and training activities in the field of sexuality,
relationships and prevention of STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections) in the school setting” was funded
from 2019 to 2025. This interdisciplinary project is carried out at the national level, with financial support
from the Ministry of Health. The project adopted the CSE perspective; however, it recognized that it lacked
a radical theoretical foundation. SE is first and foremost a pedagogical action: therefore, it requires a
pedagogical wisdom capable of grounding actions that should not be mere informative or preventive
interventions, but real opportunities for the formation of the person, including in the dimension of being that
is their sexuality.
The EduForIST project has found in the philosophy of care the theoretical frame of reference to ground
CSE on a rigorous basis. The proposal presents a phenomenology of human being and their sexuality
and a phenomenology of the educative act, conceived as an act of care. In Aristotelian terms, care is
the practice that aims at the flourishing of the human being in all its aspects: consequently, a "caring
CSE" can be understood as an act of care that contributes to the full flourishing of people, including in
its sexual dimension. The importance of the theoretical model is confirmed by the qualitative empirical
research carried out in the project. Indeed, the educators who implemented the activities were asked to
write a daily reflective journal and/or summarize what happened in the classroom and their own
reflections on it through a SWOT analysis. As a result, 48 documents were collected that provide insights
for improving the design and implementation. The journals and the SWOT analysis were analyzed using
the empirical phenomenological method, an innovative reading of Husserl applied to empirical research,
since the data consist of a lived experience of the subject, the deep meaning of which can be grasped
through the epochè and the search for the essence.
Through a gradual coding of the texts and the construction of hierarchies of essences, we noted how
educators recognized the "caring" approach of CSE as capable of fostering a meaningful relationship
by meeting the needs and desires of young people and building a constructive relationship with
educational agencies (school, family, communities).
The relevance of the research lies in the combination of theoretical and empirical statements around a
fundamental element of innovative educational practice: the caring approach
Comprehensive sexuality education in Italian secondary schools: the EduForIST national project
No full textThis article outlines the co-construction, implementation and evaluation process of a pilot CSE intervention conducted in Italian secondary schools in 2023 as part of the EduForIST project
Caso complesso della educazione alla sessualità: questioni teoretiche, scelte empiriche e genesi del progetto EduForIST
No full textIl saggio presenta la articolata proposta di ricerca educativa, con relative scelte teoretiche, empiriche ed educative, che ha dato vita al progetto EduForIST (Sviluppo di strumenti tecnici e pratici per lo svolgimento di attività educative e formative in ambito di sessualità, relazioni affettive e prevenzione delle IST nel contesto scolastico)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dare voce a educatori ed educatrici per valutare l’implementazione del progetto
No full textpresenta i risultati di una ricerca qualitativa di tipo valutativo svolta all’interno del progetto EduForIST sui diari riflessivi redatti dagli educatori e dalle educatrici impegnati/e durante l’implementazione. Il contributo del sottoscritto è relativo all’elaborazione di un metodo adatto e all’analisi dei dati
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