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Lorenzo Milani in our times
No full textThis article pays tribute to one of Europe's foremost critical pedagogues, the Tuscan Don Lorenzo Milani, on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth. It highlights the key moments in his life as priest and educator as well as his pedagogical approach directed at challenging the class-conditioned status quo in Italian society and at achieving greater social justice. His was a pedagogy which highlighted the collective dimensions of learning and teaching, pupils being students and educators at the same time, an approach to learning akin to what Paulo Freire would call critical literacy and what contemporary writers would call critical media literacy in the sense of reading and writing the word and the world. His pedagogy entailed a process of reading history against the grain as part of an attempt to generate a culture of non-militarization. All these elements make Don Milani and his student-teachers pedagogues for our times.peer-reviewe
What Catholic educators can learn from the radical Christianity and critical pedagogy of Don Lorenzo Milani
No full textThis paper exposes some of the ideas expressed or associated with the work of don Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana and discusses them in the light of the teachings of the gospels. It draws out the ramifications of these ideas for a critical education in the Christian spirit. The focus throughout is on education for social justice.peer-reviewe
Critical pedagogy and citizenship : Lorenzo Milani and the school of Barbiana
No full textThis article can also be found in:
Learning and Social Difference, Challenges for Public Education and Critical pedagogy. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm, 2006. Chapter 8,This paper discusses the pedagogical challenge of providing an education that stresses the connection between learning and power and the potential, for social solidarity, of a collective approach to learning based on a process of what Freire and other critical pedagogues would call ‘critical literacy.’
The stimulus for such a pedagogical approach to citizenship derives from the legacy of a radical and very controversial Tuscan priest, Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967), and the students from an isolated and impoverished farming community in the Mugello region of Tuscany who constituted the School of Barbiana. The pedagogical ideas emanating from Lorenzo Milani and his school of Barbiana remain a source of reference in debates about schooling and social activism in Italy and elsewhere. The key text to emerge from this school, Lettera a Una Professoressa (Letter to a Teacher), was an important source of reference during the turbulent ‘sessantotto’ (1968) period in Italy. The paper provides an analysis of this and other works with whihc Lorenzo Milani was connected.peer-reviewe
Italian signposts for a sociologically and critically engaged pedagogy : Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967) and the schools of San Donato and Barbiana revisited
No full textThis paper provides a critical exposition and analysis of the work of an acclaimed Italian educator, Lorenzo Milani, and ideas that emerged from his experiences in two Tuscan localities. His work is well known in Italy and many parts of southern Europe. Despite the translations of his works into English and Spanish, in the early 1970s, and their use in sociology of education classes in the United Kingdom, he seems to have had a very limited impact on the Anglo-North American-dominated critical education field. The paper revisits his ideas, in this 90th anniversary year, indicating their contemporary relevance and the signposts they provide for a critically and sociologically engaged pedagogy.peer-reviewe
La valutazione e progettazione multidimensionale e partecipativa
No full textIl quinto capitolo, scritto da Mariella Giachino, Giovanna Murru, Anna Zenarolla e Paola Milani, è incentrato sui due cardini del percorso di inclusione sociale: la valutazione e la progettazione. Queste due fasi, interconnesse fra loro, fanno riferimento agli strumenti dell’Analisi prelimi- nare, del Quadro di analisi e del Patto per l’inclusione sociale. Oltre a declinare e differenziare le azioni dell’analizzare, valutare e progettare in chiave multidimensionale e partecipativa, il capitolo affronta il tema delle sanzioni e propone, per ciascuno strumento, alcune esercitazioni con relative schede per l’approfondimento e l’utilizzo in chiave formativa
Effective closed form starting point determination for kinetic model interpreting NR vulcanized with sulphur
No full textIn this paper, a closed form analytical approach for a recently presented kinetic model proposed in Milani and Milani (Polym Test, 2013, under review) to interpret NR sulphur vulcanization in presence of either experimental or surrogate rheometer curves is proposed. The model has kinetic base and is aimed at predicting, by means of a very refined approach, the vulcanization degree of NR vulcanized with sulphur. It needs as input only rheometer curves to fit and provides as output kinetic constants of the single reactions occurring during the crosslink process. In Milani and Milani (Polym Test, 2013, under review) a cure chemical scheme constituted by five reactions occurring in series and parallel was adopted. The chemical scheme, translated mathematically into a differential equations system, was suitably re-arranged and a single analytical equation was derived, representing rubber crosslink degree evolution upon time. The main drawback of such procedure is that the five kinetic constants corresponding to each reaction were determined through a standard non-linear least squares procedure, trying to minimize the deviation of the analytical cure curve from experimental data. Such a limitation is here superseded and a major improvement is proposed utilizing (1) a closed form solution which does not require any optimization algorithm and (2) finding analytically a starting point for the unknown kinetic constants, very near to the actual solution and thus very convenient for a successive least squares minimization. In the model, it is shown how the analytical condition deduced from the scorch point (second derivative of the rheometer curve equal to zero) and two further conditions, e. g. the time at 90% of vulcanization and the reversion percentage, allow the simple direct evaluation of kinetic constants, providing a closed form analytical formula to predict well the state of cure of the rubber under consideration. To assess the results obtained with the model proposed, several examples on two different NRs are discussed. The approach proved to be extremely robust and much faster when compared with the model proposed by Milani and Milani (Polym Test, 2013, under review)
STORIA E AMBIENTE (21-24 set. 2006) - Sezione "Al Barracano"
No full textAl Baraccano
Sala conferenze del Baraccano – Quartiere Santo Stefano, via Santo Stefano 119
h 11,00 - Esposizione multimediale e conferenza di Pietro Laureano su Le mille e una torre. Presenta Raffaele Milani
Sala esposizioni “G. Cavazza” – Quartiere Santo Stefano, via Santo Stefano 119
h 17,00 Inaugurazione della mostra a cura di Giuliano Gresleri
Le Corbusier: il viaggio in Oriente. Un'esplorazione fotografica del "Grand Tour".
Interventi di Giuliano Gresleri, Raffaele Milani, Pier Giorgio Massarett
Seismic assessment of historical masonry structures through advanced nonlinear dynamic simulations: applications to castles, churches, and palaces
No full textThe preservation of architectural heritage against earthquakes is currently a topic of increasing interest in Italy and requires an accurate seismic response assessment of the structures. Recent Italian seismic events have shown that severe damage or partial collapse can be caused to historical buildings even by low-to-moderate intensity earthquakes. Structural analysis is a fundamental tool to better evaluate the seismic response and vulnerability of historical buildings and define effective strengthening interventions: in particular, the use of advanced numerical tools to perform three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear dynamic analyses allows obtaining a thorough detailed knowledge of the seismic behavior of such a typology of structures. This chapter investigates the seismic response and damage distribution of three important historical masonry constructions of the outstanding cultural heritage in Mantua (Northern Italy) after the 2012 Emilia earthquake: the recent seismic sequence and the consequent significant crack patterns observed in the postearthquake survey phase pointed out their vulnerability to small seismic actions. Detailed and representative 3D finite element models of the historical masonry constructions are developed and nonlinear dynamic analyses are carried out to gain a deep numerical insight into the seismic response of the three structures, identifying the damage patterns and the most vulnerable parts for different seismic intensity levels
Don Lorenzo Milani: costruire con le parole
No full textIl contributo descrive l'esperienza educativa di don Lorenzo Milani, il suo impegno a favore degli ultimi, l'importanza della parola nella scuola popolare e nella scuola di Barbiana
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