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    Italian Secondary School Students and the Distance Learning Experience: From Current Critical Issues to Future Opportunities, Reflecting on VR

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    This paper aims to identify Distance Learning adaptation profiles of a sample of Italian secondary school students, placing attention on the factors connected with a decline in school performance, digital inequalities, cognitiveemotional distress, forms of exclusion. DL increases the risk of distraction/ interruption and affects academic performance; it has a negative impact on interactions between peers and with teachers by and large, causing a considerable number of interviewees to feel “deprived of quality relationships”. The profiles that emerged highlight the existence of forms of inequality that are known to predate the pandemic. The problem of access to the Internet/technology and the issue of inadequate domestic space exacerbate every other criticality identified. The data, however, allow for observations that go beyond an interpretation built exclusively around the digital divide. DL, even when delivered at optimal levels in terms of connectivity and educators’ digital competence, has jeopardized the regular execution of social processuality, a veritable belt drive of curricular knowledge. In the wake of technological advancement, accelerated by the pandemic, therefore lies the hope for wider experimentation with digital classrooms using VR technology, hinged on multidisciplinary dialogue and aimed at translating the digital from a form of technological virtuosity, to a credible and ethically grounded response

    Le configurazioni organizzative dell'alternanza scuola-lavoro in Italia

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    The essay wonders about the implementation of the School–Work Alternance in Italy in the four years following the enactment of l. 107/2015, before the guidelines related to the reformulation of ASL provided by Law 145 in 2018. The discussed data were collected by a sample survey conducted through an interview with a questionnaire (CAWI), addressed to school representatives of SWA in Italy. The basic hypothesis is that the type of relationship between schools and the organisations involved in the ASL projects may shape up to be not only according to the mere opposition between the resistance to change and the acceptance of the idea that secondary education should be geared more towards meeting the needs of the labour market. The research is exploratory and requires further development; however, the survey results lead to the identification of four possible different SWA configurations, one of which is characterised by school–driven innovation and another is based on the integration of the former with other organisations

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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
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