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Valorizzazione della empatia e dell’assunzione di responsabilità da parte degli studenti.
No full textEmpowering school-community synergy through reading promotion: Focus on the experience of the library “Biblioteca di Villa
No full textSchool-Community partnership is one of the strategic dimensions through which it's possible to qualify the educational processes and pursue one of the goals of the Agenda2030 for Sustainable Development, namely to promote an education that is qualified, inclusive and accessible for everyone, also through the involvement of local institutions and organizations.
In today’s complex era, it's crucial to strengthen the work of formal education contexts with initiatives promoted in the territory, which involve children, teenagers and families in the accomplishments of meaningful activities for the development of core competencies for active citizenship.
In the Italian educational landscape, the importance of extracurricular activities is also confirmed by the increasing focus on the so-called horizontal curriculum, aimed at integrating the educational offer connected to teaching-learning activities within the schools, with initiatives involving other institutions, such as cultural associations, libraries or museums.
One of the areas in which School-Community Synergy appears to be particularly active is reading promotion. Especially in relation to early childhood, this dimension seems to enable an active dialogue between families and educational institutions. Paths designed in this sense can therefore empower the relationship among formal, non-formal, and informal education actors, creating opportunities for personal, cultural, and social development.
The paper presents the main results of an exploratory study conducted in the context of the educational and cultural initiatives promoted by the Library of Villa San Sebastiano (Biblioteca di Villa), a small Italian village. The experience of this Library is particularly significant in the context of School-Community Synergy, as it has been actively collaborating with a pedagogist and nursery director to design reading promotion paths since 2019. These paths are aimed at promoting greater family awareness of the importance of reading from an early age; they are also meant to organize extra school initiatives to involve children and young people in activities to promote both their engagement in reading and their motivation to read.
The main objective of the study was to deepen the project experience of the Villa Library in order to identify organizational and methodological strategies useful for design reading promotion initiatives outside formal education environments. To do this, the research focused on the initiatives planned over the years, on their organizational structure and on the activities proposed, including readings in public spaces, and individual and peer tutoring workshops. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, administered to the library’s director and staff, the pedagogical supervisor, and participating families.
The main outcomes confirm that local organizations can be a useful resource for enriching learning and cultural promotion opportunities in non-formal and informal education contexts, especially if they design and manage activities that are constant and consistent over time. The families involved appreciated the educational initiatives and the way they have been enriched over the years. Furthermore, the active and enthusiastic participation of children made it clear that the educational-didactic practices investigated are effective. It is possible to think of future exploitation and adaptation of such practices in further contexts
Cultura della condivisione in rete: scuola, associazioni e territorio
No full textIl contributo presenta gli esiti delle azioni di promozione della lettura svolte
da oltre venti anni in modo continuativo e partecipato, in rete, nell’ambito del
territorio della città di Roma, zona Est. La rete delle biblioteche scolastiche
comprende scuole di ogni ordine e grado, Associazioni dei genitori,
Associazioni no profit e Biblioteche pubbliche e coinvolge l’Università degli
Studi Roma Tre, case editrici, illustratori, scrittori, esperti di didattica dell’arte.
L’esperienza pluriennale conferma l’opportunità di diffondere e consolidare
la cultura della condivisione evitando eventi estemporanei e di breve periodo,
in favore di iniziative di sistema, multiattore, che intendono dare valore alla
lettura, in tutti i suoi aspetti, attraverso la progettazione e realizzazione di
attività tematiche, ritualizzate, ricorrenti e stabili nel tempo. La Rete si
caratterizza per il coinvolgimento di alunni e famiglie, l’ampia offerta di
iniziative (mostre, premi, laboratori ecc.) e la costante attenzione al rapporto
tra azione, formazione e ricerca
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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