235 research outputs found
Objects as pedagogical mediators. A proposal of an ecological design in kindergarten
No full textStarting from the first days of life, the child is placed in the world as a subject intentionally interacting with individuals and with the environment that surrounds them, capable of generating meanings and knowledge through activities of playful and active learning.
The kindergarten - the first broader social context that the child attends - is a privileged place for the development of project proposals aimed at the development of learning pathways to support the child in their growth and promote reflections on and participation in the topic of early childhood education at multiple levels.
The article gives an account of the experience related to a personal research survey conducted at some public kindergartens (age 0-3) of the city of Rome in order to verify the replicability and effectiveness of a design methodology used in my work as a pedagogical coordinator.
The methodology considers the use of elements present in the world of children and adults as mediators in the development of educational proposals that actively involve children, families and professionals that can generate a universe of shared meaning and promote a research-action perspective in educational services.
This article also intends to highlight some design aspects of the curriculum (age 0-3) that could encourage the development of the kindergarten as a place that supports the child to be a protagonist of their growth pathways and the environment in which they live and contribute positively to their first experiences of citizensh
Un progetto europeo, nove partner, la sfida della partecipazione
No full textI risultati relativi al progetto Interreg Italia-Croatia Excover vengono presentati con particolare rilievo sulla ricerca partecipata relativa alla percezione locale del patromonio materiale e immaterial
The catecholaminergic innervation of the claustrum of the pig
No full textOver the past decades, the number of studies employing the pig brain as a model for neurochemical studies has dramatically increased. The key translational features of the pig brain are the similarities with the cortical and subcortical structures of the human brain. In addition, the caudalmost part of the pig claustrum (CL) is characterized by a wide enlargement called posterior puddle, an ideal structure for physiological recordings.
Several hypotheses have been proposed for CL function, the key factor being its reciprocal connectivity with most areas of the cerebral cortex and selected subcortical structures. However, afferents from the brainstem could also be involved. The brainstem is the main source of catecholaminergic axons that play an important neuromodulatory action in different brain functions. To study a possible role of the CL in catecholaminergic pathways, we analyzed the presence and the distribution of afferents immunostained with antibodies against tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and dopamine betahydroxylase (DBH) in the pig CL. Here we show that the CL contains significant TH immunoreactive axons contacting perikarya, whereas projections staining for DBH are very scarce. Our findings hint at the possibility that brainstem catecholaminergic afferents project to the CL,
suggesting (i) a possible role of this nucleus in functions controlled by brainstem structures; and, consequently, (ii) its potential involvement in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative pathologies, including Parkinson’s disease (PD)
Un mal di schiena fastidioso
No full textA 7-year-old boy was admitted to the Emergency Unit for a one-month history of low back pain, which got worse and resulted in a refusal to walk. On physical examination, the patient refused to stand, and palpation of the spinous processes of the lumbosacral spine evoked pain. Blood tests were normal, except for raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate (51 mm/h, ULN 20 mm/h). An X-ray showed fecaloma and MRI of the spine was performed. Different diagnostic hypotheses and diagnostic exams are discussed
Pulmonary pathology: a comparison between bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) stranded along the italian coastline.
No full textFractional De Giorgi classes and applications to nonlocal regularity theory
No full textWe present some recent results obtained by the author on the regularity of solutions to nonlocal variational problems. In particular, we review the notion of fractional De Giorgi class, explain its role in nonlocal regularity theory, and propose some open questions in the subject.</p
Screening del funzionamento psicologico: l’ottavo segno
No full textMental health problems are a significant cause of disability in children and adolescents.
The most common are anxiety, depression, eating disorders and somatic symptom disorder. All these disorders have a negative impact on the child/adolescent functioning and they may lead to more severe psychiatric illnesses. For these reasons, paediatricians should be able to identify the patients with high risk of psychological dysfunction, by knowing the right questions to ask and using some simple psychological assessment tools (Paediatric symptom checklist, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, HEADS-ED)
that can help patients to receive the psychological/neuropsychiatric support they need as soon as possible
Literary Collaboration in Late Victorian Britain
No full textThe focus of the present thesis is the phenomenon of literary collaboration for fiction-writing during a period when it was particularly widespread: from 1870 to the end of the Victorian age. Collaboration in novel writing had been practised sporadically since the eighteenth century, but the late nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented expansion, probably as the result of an increasingly composite and competitive literary market. Around 1890, it became a literary fashion, so much so that almost all popular novelists of the time experienced it at least once. However popular, virtually all coauthored novels soon plunged into oblivion. The present research seeks the causes for such decline in the very context of these novels' production and reception, exploring how coauthorship was a controversial practice since its very beginning. Indeed, the sharing of textual spaces and the dispersion of authority complicated deep-seated, post-Romantic notions of authorship and textuality; within collaborative writing, the author turned into something different from what Victorians were accustomed to imagining.
Chapter 1 presents a survey of the phenomenon's importance and of its impact on the late Victorian literary marketplace. The following chapter discusses the ten-year long literary partnership of the two English friends Walter Besant and James Rice, who made collaboration popular and whose alliance remained an influential model for the subsequent decades. Chapter 3 analyses another pair of long-term coauthors, the Anglo-Irish cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, who signed their works Somerville and Ross. They coauthored fiction for thirty years, and their complex emotional relationship shaped their literary partnership in meaningful ways. Chapter 4 investigates some examples of one-time collaborative experiences of the 1890s, when the practice was at its peak: H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang; Rhoda Broughton and Elizabeth Bisland; and the collaboration of twenty-four novelists on the sensational 'The Fate of Fenella.' Chapter 5 looks at the discourse that developed in the British press around collaboration: drawing on a corpus of original late Victorian articles and reviews, it tries to shed some light on how the Victorian public reacted to, perceived and represented the act of coauthoring a work of fiction. Some trends are identified, in order to understand which aspects of collaboration particularly struck the Victorian imagination. The heated debate on coauthorship spurred further discussion on wider issues connected with authorship and copyright, both questions of paramount importance in the Victorian age, which are explored in chapter 6. This last part considers the ways in which the author figure emerging from the collaborative process challenged and subverted - even if only temporarily - hegemonic conceptions of author-ity.The focus of the present thesis is the phenomenon of literary collaboration for fiction-writing during a period when it was particularly widespread: from 1870 to the end of the Victorian age. Collaboration in novel writing had been practised sporadically since the eighteenth century, but the late nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented expansion, probably as the result of an increasingly composite and competitive literary market. Around 1890, it became a literary fashion, so much so that almost all popular novelists of the time experienced it at least once. However popular, virtually all coauthored novels soon plunged into oblivion. The present research seeks the causes for such decline in the very context of these novels' production and reception, exploring how coauthorship was a controversial practice since its very beginning. Indeed, the sharing of textual spaces and the dispersion of authority complicated deep-seated, post-Romantic notions of authorship and textuality; within collaborative writing, the author turned into something different from what Victorians were accustomed to imagining.
Chapter 1 presents a survey of the phenomenon's importance and of its impact on the late Victorian literary marketplace. The following chapter discusses the ten-year long literary partnership of the two English friends Walter Besant and James Rice, who made collaboration popular and whose alliance remained an influential model for the subsequent decades. Chapter 3 analyses another pair of long-term coauthors, the Anglo-Irish cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, who signed their works Somerville and Ross. They coauthored fiction for thirty years, and their complex emotional relationship shaped their literary partnership in meaningful ways. Chapter 4 investigates some examples of one-time collaborative experiences of the 1890s, when the practice was at its peak: H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang; Rhoda Broughton and Elizabeth Bisland; and the collaboration of twenty-four novelists on the sensational 'The Fate of Fenella.' Chapter 5 looks at the discourse that developed in the British press around collaboration: drawing on a corpus of original late Victorian articles and reviews, it tries to shed some light on how the Victorian public reacted to, perceived and represented the act of coauthoring a work of fiction. Some trends are identified, in order to understand which aspects of collaboration particularly struck the Victorian imagination. The heated debate on coauthorship spurred further discussion on wider issues connected with authorship and copyright, both questions of paramount importance in the Victorian age, which are explored in chapter 6. This last part considers the ways in which the author figure emerging from the collaborative process challenged and subverted - even if only temporarily - hegemonic conceptions of author-ity
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