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Renewing Middle School Facilities
No full textThis book draws on important original transdisciplinary research to address a wide range of issues relating to the remodeling of existing schools for pre-teenagers to fit them to various novel teaching models (e.g. collaborative learning, ICT integration, and out-of-classroom working) and to create effective educational environments for the future. The strong relationship between people’s wellbeing, physical environment and student learning in schools has already been extensively studied in international research. At the same time, a number of different scenarios of possible innovations are now emerging, and these require conscious choices in terms of designing both the ways and the places where educational processes can be developed. The principal focus of this research was the relationship between infrastructure, activities, and school communities. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which discusses conceptual aspects and outlines innovative renewal strategies. The second section describes a participatory research process developed in five case studies of lower-secondary or middle schools with the aim of updating our knowledge about such schools and identifying emerging issues. The last section presents case studies, operational tools, and design strategies that aid decision-making and support interventions to renew school facilities. The book is intended mainly for scholars of architecture and education, but is also of interest to a wider readership, including principals, teachers, designers, decision-makers in school communities, and heads of municipal education departments. This research work was funded by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies DAStU of the Politecnico di Milan
Valorizzare i cortili delle scuole. Opportunità e barriere
No full textL’importanza del verde e in generale della qualità del contesto e degli spazi aperti è un principio di base per la progettazione delle scuole. Le trasformazioni nel tempo dei contesti urbani rendono gli spazi aperti delle scuole risorse ancora più preziose, sia per la comunità scolastica, che per gli abitanti dei quartieri circostanti. Il loro valore si riscontra soprattutto nella possibilità di goderne in maniera diretta, attraverso l’utilizzo interno in orario scolastico e, ove possibile, anche oltre, con una più ampia platea di utenti.
Viene quindi da chiedersi come mai, nonostante tutta l’attenzione dedicata al tema degli spazi aperti delle scuole in ambito pedagogico e non solo, questi risultino ancora scarsamente valorizzati. È possibile provare a delineare tre macro ambiti di criticità su cui riflettere in maniera propositiva, che potrebbero essere classificati come barriere di natura socio-culturale, di natura organizzativo-gestionale e di natura tecnica
THE SCHOOLYARD: A RESOURCE FOR HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION
Full text linkL’impatto della pandemia da Covid19 ha
definitivamente svelato la criticità di molte
infrastrutture scolastiche connotate da ambiti spaziali
sottodimensionati e poco flessibili e/o con dotazioni
impiantistiche obsolete. La riapertura delle scuole in
condizioni di emergenza sanitaria ha avuto un impatto
significativo sulle modalità didattiche, sulle relazioni
interpersonali, sulle possibilità di movimento, sull’uso
di spazi ed attrezzature; ha, però, anche offerto
l’opportunità di rivalutare luoghi, come i cortili
scolastici, che diverse esperienze nel corso del tempo
hanno dimostrato essere risorse fondamentali per lo
sviluppo educativo e fisiologico degli studenti.
Lo scopo di questo lavoro è quello di confrontare uno
scenario critico, riguardo alle condizioni di vivibilità
delle infrastrutture scolastiche, ad una visione più
propositiva, articolata attraverso una serie di
riferimenti esemplificativi di interventi, che possono
essere assunti e declinati con un’ottica di lungimiranza.The impact of the Covid19 pandemic has
definitively revealed criticalities in those school
infrastructures that are characterized by
undersized and rigid spaces and / or are
equipped with obsolete equipment. The
reopening of schools in health emergency
conditions has highly impacted on teaching
methods, social relationships, student
movement, as well as the use of spaces and
equipment; however, it has also offered the
opportunity to reconsider some forgotten
places, such as schoolyards. In fact, these spaces
have shown to be fundamental resources for
the educational and physiological development
of students. The purpose of this work is to
compare a critical scenario, regarding the
livability conditions in schools, to a more
proactive vision, articulated through a set of
examples of potential interventions, or
perspectives
2005-2099 High resolution bioclimatic variables for the surface and bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
No full textThis dataset provides annual statistical descriptors (mean, minimum, maximum, range and standard deviation) of key biogeochemical and physical variables for the Mediterranean Sea. It covers the period 2005-2099 under the RCP8.5 scenario, with a spatial resolution of 1/24 degree (~4km2). Variables include temperature, salinity, pH, water velocity, nutrients (NO3, PO4, NH4), dissolved inorganic carbon, oxygen, and net primary production. Data are available for both surface and at bathymetry level. The original projections were generated using OGSTM-BFM and MFS16 models at daily time and 1/16 degree grid resolution. We downscaled these to 1/24 degree and applied Quantile Delta Mapping bias correction using CMEMS reanalysis products for 2005-2020. The dataset is provided in a user-friendly format, making it accessible for various ecological and environmental modelling applications
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
Le linee guida per l’elaborazione del Programma triennale, del Documento preliminare alla progettazione e del Progetto preliminare
No full textanche in Fianchini M., Qualificazione del prodotto edilizio, Alinea, Firenze, 200
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
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