2,036 research outputs found
La storia e le immagini della storia. Prospettive, metodi, ricerche
No full textIl rapporto tra immagini e storia, nella duplice prospettiva dello studio delle immagini come documenti del passato e del loro ruolo nell’ambito della ricostruzione di avvenimenti storici, rimanda a una tradizione consolidata e variegata, a partire dagli studi di Haskell sulla funzione delle testimonianze visive come «fonti storiche e chiavi di accesso a epoche remote». Ed è lungo tale sentiero che il volume vede intrecciarsi gli interessi di storici della cultura, storici della società e della politica, e storici dell’arte in senso stretto, nel comune intento di confrontare e far convergere i diversi filoni di ricerca. Il risultato di questo esperimento è un testo nel quale le singole discipline dialogano costantemente, nel continuo sforzo di affinare i differenti “attrezzi del mestiere”, al di là di ogni steccato: l’unica linea guida del percorso è, volutamente, il parametro cronologico, in un arco temporale che va dal tardo medioevo alla contemporaneità
Cini-Feltrinelli M.(1994). Un paradis perdu : de l’univers des lois naturelles au monde des procès évolutifs. Roma, La Nuova Italia Editrice
No full textVicentini M. Cini-Feltrinelli M.(1994). Un paradis perdu : de l’univers des lois naturelles au monde des procès évolutifs. Roma, La Nuova Italia Editrice. In: Didaskalia, n°12, 1998. Enseigner les sciences à l'Université. pp. 156-157
Mostra "Dall'Hortus Sanitatis alle moderne Farmacopee attraverso i tesori delle biblioteche ferraresi". Biblioteca Ariostea, Ferrara. 1 dicembre 2008-14 febbraio 2009.
No full textVicentini e Mares hanno condotto una ricerca nell'ambito delle opere in possesso delle biblioteche di Ateneo ed Ariostea al fine di ricostruire il faticoso percorso che ha portato alla codifica dei trattamenti terapeutici i cui risultati sono confluiti nel corso dei secoli alla stesura delle varie Farmacopee.
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Vicentini M., Mayer M. (1996). Didattica della fisica. Roma, La Nuova Italia Editrice
No full textBesson U. Vicentini M., Mayer M. (1996). Didattica della fisica. Roma, La Nuova Italia Editrice. In: Didaskalia, n°12, 1998. Enseigner les sciences à l'Université. pp. 160-161
Introducing Age.Vol.A: digital tools to promote communication between seniors, foreign caregivers and families
No full textThis presentation introduces Age.Vol.A.– Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants. Multilingual tools for
Assisting the Ageing, a research project on ageing issues focusing on the demographic and social
situation of Varese, an 80,000-inhabitant city in North-West Italy, with 13% of its population over 65
and foreigners representing over 8% of the province’s population, a significant proportion of whom
is employed as caregivers to assist elderly people at home. Age.Vol.A. starts from the assumption
that, between home-assisted Italian seniors and their non-Italian caregivers, there exists a linguistic
and cultural barrier as well as a digital divide, which tends to increase the physical and social
isolation of the elderly population (Russo et al., 2019; Vicentini & Grego, 2019; Vicentini et al.,
2020).
The paper intends to offer an overview of the output of this research project, i.e. a multilingual
website and a multilingual smartphone application aimed at providing the foreign caregivers with
terminology and practical information related to their assisted and the institutions aimed to assist
those who assist the elderly, from health and healthcare to administrative issues. The terminology is
divided into three macro areas – health, institutions, daily life – with secondary fields according to
various communicative situations. The concept of the digital tools rests on the notions of
translanguaging in migrant communities (Canagarajah, 2013; Hafner & Jones, 2015; Schreiber,
2015) as a means to deploy communication practices which digital tools can support through
adaptive moves through linguistic, textual, and audiovisual media.
References
Canagarajah, S. (2013) “Negotiating Translingual Literacy: An Enactment.” Research in the
Teaching of English 48(1):40–67.
Hafner, C. A., & Jones, R. H. (2015). Digital literacies and language learning. Language Learning &
Technology, 19(3), 1–7.
Russo, D., Luraschi, M., Grego, K., Vicentini, A., Pasquaré Mariotto, F., Rovelli, G. (2019)
“Designing a Survey for Care Workers, the Elderly and Their Families”, presentation at the
conference Seniors, foreign caregivers, families, institutions: Linguistic and multidisciplinary
perspectives, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, 9-10/04/2019.
Schreiber. B. R. (2015). “I am what I am”: Multilingual identity and digital
translanguaging. Language Learning & Technology, 19(3), 69–87.
Vicentini, A., Grego, K. (2019) (eds) “Linguistic perspectives on ageing issues, ethics and ideology”,
Expressio, 3.
Vicentini, A., Grego, K., Russo, D., Grechi, D., Pasquaré-Mariotto, F. & Rovelli, G. (2020).
“Sociolinguistic and statistical methods to improve health communication between the elderly,
caregivers and institutions: The Age.Vol.A. research project”. presentation at the conference
Communication, Medicine and Ethics Conference (COMET) 2020, Aalborg (DK), 01-03/07/2020
The Age.Vol.A. research project: Findings from a survey on caregivers, the elderly and their families in Northern Italy
No full textIn 2019, 20.3% of the EU-27 population was aged 65 and over. The share of EU people aged 80 years or above is projected to have a two and a half fold increase between 2019 and 2100, reaching 14.6 % of the total (United Nations, 2019). Italy is facing a demographic decline. According to ISTAT (2019), the country’s birth rate has constantly decreased over the past few decades: for every 100 deaths there are just 67 births (there were as many as 96 births 10 years ago), which is the lowest turnover population level since 1918. This phenomenon, combined with the increased life expectancy in Italy (almost 81 years for men and over 85 for women), paints a picture of a country where the average age of the population is 45.7 years old and is expected to be over 53 years old in 2050 (Lallo and Raitano 2018).
For these reasons, elderly care plays a key role in Italy’s social fabric: if people live longer, the extra years will not necessarily be spent in good health, which means that the demand for assistance, especially home care, will increase in the next decades. A large share of the population is expected to spend more time looking after their elderly family members, which might result in a negative impact on their working lives, an aspect which has emerged significantly during the present COVID-19 pandemic (Petretto and Pili, 2020).
This presentation introduces Age.Vol.A.– Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants. Multilingual tools for Assisting the Ageing, a research project on ageing issues focusing on the demographic and social situation of Varese, an 80,000-inhabitant city in North-West Italy, with 13% of its population over 65 and foreigners representing over 8% of the province’s population, a significant proportion of whom is employed as caregivers to assist elderly people at home. Age.Vol.A. starts from the assumption that, between home-assisted Italian seniors and their non-Italian caregivers, there exists a linguistic and cultural barrier as well as a digital divide, which tends to increase the physical and social isolation of the elderly population. The output of this research project will be a multilingual website and a multilingual smartphone application aimed at providing the foreign carers with terminology and practical information related to their assisted and the institutions aimed to assist those who assist the elderly, from health and healthcare to administrative issues (Russo et al. 2019; Vicentini and Grego 2019; Vicentini et al. 2020;).
The paper intends to offer an overview of the data collected in a survey launched in 2020 by the Age.Vol.A. project to study the populations of caregivers, the assisted elderly and their families in the province of Varese, which takes into account specific demographic, social, linguistic and communicative aspects, including the current epidemiological situation.
References
ISTAT (2019), Natalità e fecondità della popolazione residente, https://www.istat.it/it/files/2020/12/REPORT-NATALITA-2019.pdf
Lallo, C., Raitano, M. (2018). “Life expectancy inequalities in the elderly by socioeconomic status: evidence from Italy”. Population health metrics, 16(1), 7.
Petretto, D. R., Pili, R. (2020). Ageing and COVID-19: What is the role for elderly people?. Geriatrics (Switzerland), 5(2).
Russo, D., Luraschi, M., Grego, K., Vicentini, A., Pasquaré Mariotto, F., Rovelli, G. (2019) “Designing a Survey for Care Workers, the Elderly and Their Families”, presentation at the conference Seniors, foreign caregivers, families, institutions: Linguistic and multidisciplinary perspectives, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, 9-10/04/2019.
United Nations (2019). World Population Ageing 2019 https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/ageing/WorldPopulationAgeing2019-Report.pdf
Vicentini, A., Grego, K. (2019) (eds) “Linguistic perspectives on ageing issues, ethics and ideology”, Expressio, 3.
Vicentini, A., Grego, K., Russo, D., Grechi, D., Pasquaré-Mariotto, F. & Rovelli, G. (2020). “Sociolinguistic and statistical methods to improve health communication between the elderly, caregivers and institutions: The Age.Vol.A. research project”. presentation at the conference Communication, Medicine and Ethics Conference (COMET) 2020, Aalborg (DK), 01-03/07/2020
Bernardini C., Jarsitani C., Vicentini M. (Éds) (1995). Thinking Physics for Teaching. New York, Plenum Press
No full textCaillot Michel. Bernardini C., Jarsitani C., Vicentini M. (Éds) (1995). Thinking Physics for Teaching. New York, Plenum Press. In: Didaskalia, n°12, 1998. Enseigner les sciences à l'Université. pp. 153-154
Practical perspectives on older people, caregivers, families and organisations. Special issue of Working with Older People
No full textFrom ‘Foreign Body’ to PD Leadership and Beyond. Explaining Matteo Renzi’s Path to Power through the Evolution of his Primaries’ Voters
No full textThis article examines the path to power of the current Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, by assessing the evolution of his voters’ characteristics between the 2012 and 2013 national primaries. The analysis is based on two extensive data sets the author herself has created together with the other members of the standing group, ‘Candidate and Leader Selection’, working within the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Italian Society of Political Science). The socio-demographic and political characteristics of participants in the primaries are described, while the characteristics of Renzi’s voters (RVs) are compared to those of non-Renzi voters (NRVs) and to the averages for the primaries’ participants generally. The findings clearly demonstrate that in the space of only one year RVs changed significantly: in 2012 they perfectly reflect the role of ‘foreign body’ played by their own candidate, who strongly distinguished himself from the primaries’ other candidates by gaining higher-than-average support among young voters and people having a centrist or even a right-wing political background. By contrast, in 2013 RVs become much more similar to the traditional left-wing and aged electorate used to voting in primary elections organised by the Democratic Party (PD) or the centre–left coalition as a whole. The analysis testifies that Renzi faced a kind of ‘normalisation’ in the eyes of the centre-left’s sympathisers, something that was both a cause and an effect of his acceptance by the party elite – an acceptance that allowed him to become PD general secretary first, and Prime Minister immediately thereafter
Natura dei terremoti e comportamenti di sicurezza
No full textI disastri sono eventi che hanno conseguenze potenzialmente negative per le persone, le cose e l’ambiente, comportando una sproporzione tra le richieste del contesto e le risorse degli individui atte a farvi fronte. Si distinguono principalmente in disastri naturali e disastri provocati dall’uomo o tecnologici. La comunicazione opportuna delle informazioni relative ai disastri è fondamentale per mitigarne gli effetti. La comunicazione del rischio può essere svolta in modo preventivo al fine di aumentare la preparazione individuale e la resilienza. A tale scopo, si possono implementare programmi di educazione ai disastri che, tuttavia, sono ancora rari. La percezione del rischio può essere influenzata da fattori individuali, familiari, relazionali e sociali. La scuola è un’arena ideale sia per strutturare la comunicazione relativa ai disastri sia per addestrare i giovani su come far fronte a un disastro prima che questo si verifichi, tenendo conto delle diverse caratteristiche in base alla fascia d’età. La resilienza permette di far fronte al rischio e agli eventi avversi e si manifesta tramite un adattamento psicologico positivo. Il progetto PrEmT permette di accrescere la resilienza in relazione al rischio sismico
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