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    Which intercultural competences for teachers, educators, and social workers? A literature review

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    Europe seems to be going through a historical period characterized by the fear of otherness, conceived as an attack on the positive values of liberal society. This fear manifests itself, according to several researchers, through neo-assimilationist tendencies in public policies in many European nations: an example of this trend can be considered the reintroduction of the language and knowledge requirements of the country for new immigrants as a prerequisite for obtaining permanent residence and citizenship. At the same time, in both academic and public debates, the tendency is spreading to affirm that it is necessary to overcome the multicultural approach in favour of a new paradigm capable of dealing with the complexities typical of the superdiversity that characterizes European nations: the interculturalism. This trend is in contrast to the thinking of several researchers who believe that the theoretical principles and the practical aims, which are at the basis of multiculturalism and interculturalism are complementary to each other. Multiculturalism tends to focus more on the level of public discourse and political debate while interculturalism is aimed more at more meso and micro-level. It is believed that teachers, social workers and educators play a fundamental role in making the members of the majority of a State more open to comparison and exchange with subjects coming from other historical and geographical contexts. The purpose of this review is to identify the intercultural competencies that these professionals should have to counter the fear and closure towards diversity, which is constantly increasing in European societies

    Inclusive society and immigration: A systematic analysis of the literature

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    Aim of this systematic literature review is the analysis, through biblio-graphic research, of the current inclusion processes in order to under-stand if European society is becoming an increasingly inclusive society or is progressively assuming positions of closure towards the Other. The use of MIPEX, as a key to understanding the different inclusion policies implemented by the various European countries, has high-lighted how the ideas of cultural pluralism and appreciation of diversity typical of an inclusive society are giving way to neo-assimilationist trends, symptom of the representation of otherness as a peril capable of undermining the social cohesion and stability of the nation

    Studi storico-religiosi sulla Sicilia antica

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    Gli studi moderni sui culti e i miti della Sicilia antica: vecchie e nuove piste di ricerca. Prospettive metodologiche e apporti dell'archeologia e dell'epigrafia

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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