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Educating with the heart: the pedagogical contribution of Ida Pilotto
No full textreservedNella presente tesi sono analizzate la vita, le opere e il pensiero pedagogico di Ida Pilotto-Sottini (1858-1941), una maestra di grande rilievo nella sua epoca ma oggi quasi dimenticata.
Per approfondire e delineare tutto ciò sono state prese in esame le opere da lei scritte e il materiale conservato presso il Polo Bibliotecario “Panfilo Castaldi” di Feltre.
In particolare, nel primo capitolo, è narrata la biografia di Ida Pilotto che, iniziando ad insegnare in un piccolo paesino del Bellunese, è diventata poi una figura di spicco nella Padova di fine Ottocento. È presente anche qualche rimando alla realtà storica dell’epoca per delineare il contesto in cui ha operato.
Nel secondo, terzo e quarto capitolo è approfondito il suo pensiero pedagogico a partire dall’analisi della sua opera più importante: "L’arte per l’educazione infantile". Questo testo racchiude molte informazioni circa l’organizzazione del Giardino d’Infanzia in cui operava e riguardo alle modalità e scelte didattiche da lei adottate. Sono quindi esposte le principali proposte didattiche da lei messe in atto per accompagnare i bambini nello sviluppo fisico, intellettuale e morale.
Nel capitolo conclusivo è presente una riflessione sulla realtà delle scuole dell’infanzia odierne in paragone con l’ambiente in cui ha lavorato Ida Pilotto. L’attenzione è posta su tre aspetti fondamentali del suo metodo educativo: il tempo trascorso all’aria aperta, l’educazione sensoriale e le relazioni instaurate all’interno della scuola
18. Galluccio G., Pilotto A.: Genetics of Dental Agenesis: Anterior and Posterior Area of the arch Eur Arch Paediatr Dent.
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Bio-Technologies to Understand Aging, Frailty, and Resilience
No full textBiotechnologies applied in gerontology field, might allow a better understanding of the biological basis of aging and its relationship to disease, to capture also biological mechanisms of frailty and resilience. Mechanisms underlying the aging process might be strictly interconnected with morbidity. Aging is conceptualized as the ratio between damage accumulation, and resilience strategies of maintenance and repair. The age-related unbalance toward the accumulation of molecular damage creates the susceptibility for the emergence of chronic diseases, which take different forms based on heterogeneous genetic background, behaviors, and environmental exposures. Several lines of evidence suggest that aging can be slowed down and perhaps even reversed. The identification and measurement of biomarkers of aging process would not only be useful from diagnostic and prognostic points of view, but also, and above all, from a therapeutic one. In fact, a biomarker could represent a therapeutic target, and, following its trend over time, an indicator of response to therapy. Finding strategies to slowing down biological aging could potentially delay the onset and progression of multiple chronic diseases and functional decline and reduce the burden of multimorbidity. To date more than 200 compounds has been tested as potential rejuvenation strategies. The effectiveness of such approaches on aging trajectories should be verified in the near future
Gerontechnology: Definitions and Classification
No full textTechnology is now part of our lives and the current perception by patients and their caregivers, healthcare professionals, managers and policy makers is that a modern view of medicine includes the technologies as essential instruments both in clinical practice, i.e. assessment, management and follow-up of patients and more in general in many healthcare processes as diagnosis, prognosis, treatments, rehabilitation and prevention both at individual and at general population level.
In this chapter we present an overview of the different definitions and classifications of technologies potentially useful for older people including: (i) Information and communication technologies, i.e. tools aimed at informing and communicating, including digital technologies, telehealth programs and the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare; (ii) assistive technologies designed to maintain older people’s independence and increasing safety including ambient and personal sensors and domotic devices; and (iii) human-computer interaction technologies to support treatment and rehabilitation of older people with mobility and cognitive impairments such as robots (humanoid, rehabilitation, service and companion-type robots) but also exergames and virtual reality activities and their clinical and social components
Educação, arte e política : a trajetória intelectual de Erasmo Pilotto
No full textOrientador: Prof. Dr. Carlos Eduardo VieiraTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação. Defesa: Curitiba, 27/11/2014Inclui referênciasResumo: A presente pesquisa pretende, por meio da investigação da trajetória intelectual de Erasmo Pilotto (1910-1992), analisar as concepções e o papel dado à arte como fundamento da formação cultural da criança e do professor, avaliando como, no decorrer de sua trajetória, suas concepções de arte variaram entre a arte tradicional e a moderna, classificadas por Pilotto como "arte longa" e "arte breve". A pesquisa se voltará à investigação dos espaços de sociabilidade e de atuação profissional desse autor, destacando entre esses espaços os campos artístico, educacional e político e suas inter-relações. Na história da educação paranaense, Pilotto foi um dos principais articuladores do Movimento pela Escola Nova - MEN, mas com uma compreensão diferente das principais concepções pedagógicas presentes no MEN, nas quais a arte era apresentada como uma atividade, entre outras, úteis para o desenvolvimento dos aspectos biológicos e psicológicos do desenvolvimento da criança. A proposta de Pilotto traz a centralidade da questão artística ligada a uma concepção filosófica espiritualista, contrastante portanto com a então crescente cientificização do campo educacional. O pensamento educativo de Pilotto, com ênfase na experiência estética como princípio formativo, se dá pela interlocução com autores diversos, como Tolstoi, Dewey, Gentile e Montessori, apropriados pelo intelectual e sintetizados em suas obras publicadas entre as décadas de 1940 e 1980. O referencial teórico que auxilia na construção dessa trajetória mantém relação com os conceitos de trajetória, campo, capital e habitus, de Pierre Bourdieu, e de figuração ou configuração, de Norbert Elias, além da contribuição teórica de Carlos Eduardo Vieira sobre a história intelectual. Para a realização da pesquisa, foram utilizadas fontes provenientes de diversos arquivos e centros de pesquisa de Curitiba e Ponta Grossa. As fontes pesquisadas são de tipologias variadas, como documentos administrativos do estado, periódicos, manuscritos e documentos não publicados, além de obras, fotografias, imagens e depoimentos. Palavras-chave: Erasmo Pilotto, Intelectuais, História da Educação, História do Ensino de Arte.Abstract: This research intends, through the investigation of the intellectual trajectory of Erasmo Pilotto (1910-1992), to analyze conceptions and the role given to art as the basis of the cultural background of a child and teacher, assessing how, throughout the careers of each one, their conceptions of art varies, between traditional and modern art, classified by Pilotto as "long art" and "short art." This study will revolve around the investigation of the areas of sociability as well as the professional work of the researcher, highlighting, among these areas, the artistic, educational and political fields and their inter-relationships. Historically speaking, Pilotto was one of the chief organizers in Paraná of the Movement for the New School - MEN, but had a different understanding of basic organization conceptions from the MEN pedagogical proposals, in which art was placed as an activity detrimental to the biological and psychological development of children. Pilotto's proposal brought centrality to an artistic issue that linked to a spiritual concept, thus contrasting with an ever growing scientification of the field of education. Pilotto's thoughts on education, emphasizing the aesthetic experience as the main source of training, occurs in dialogues between many authors, including Tolstoi, Dewey, Gentile and Montessori, known for their intellectual contributions, and summarized in works published between the 1940 and 1980. The theoretical framework that assists in the creation of this path relates to the Pierre Bourdieu concepts of trajectory, field, capital and habitus, and to the figuring or configuring of Norbert Elias, in addition to the theoretical contributions of Carlos Eduardo Vieira on intellectual history. Sources from various archives and research centers of Curitiba and Ponta Grossa were used for this research. Various types of research sources were used, such as official documents, periodicals, manuscripts and unpublished documents, as well as photographs, images and testimonials. Key Words: Erasmo Pilotto, Intellectuals, History of Education, History of Art Education
Digital Technologies in Cognitive Disorders
No full textThe increasing percentage of patients affected by dementia calls for effective cognitive screening in healthcare in order to identify early signs of cognitive neurodegeneration which could possibly lead to early intervention. Characteristic of new Digitized Cognitive Assessment (DCA) is the ability to provide accurate measurement of more variables. Indeed, cognitive assessment using digital technology offers new opportunities to overcome the limitations of current assessments. The digital assessment can be applied in different settings including the clinic even together with “classical” neuropsychology assessment or at home. In addition to this, the assessment can be applied in supervised conditions, i.e., applied and explained by trained specialists or in unsupervised conditions in self-administered test. Several different computerized cognitive tests have been developed to detect cognitive decline. For AD and MCI in general, several specific tests have been developed including CANTAB, Cogstate, and NIH toolbox. ‘Cognitive training’ is defined as an intervention consisting of repeated practice on standardized exercises for the purpose of benefiting cognitive function. Computer-based cognitive training (CCT), including exercises, virtual reality, and gaming, offers highly accessible, low-cost, standardized interventions. Many studies demonstrated significant benefit in specific domains of cognitive functions in older adults; additionally, computerized and online cognitive training in adults without dementia may improve daily functioning and psychological well-being. Sensory and motor changes play an important role in cognitive decline. Mobile and wearable digital technology assessing changes in mobility and daily function represents a growing area of interest for researchers. Other interesting topics are analyses on voice, ocular movement and fine motor dexterity, sleep disorders, and autonomic dysfunction that can now be evaluated using small sensors and mobile applications. Also, data coming from phones and mental health applications could generate important data for understanding the daily relevance of cognitive deficits. Further research is needed in this area, as the use of GPS sensors and metrics coming from daily personal mobile phones definitively needs an adequate regulation and the development of specific privacy policies concerning personal data
Looking for lights in the fog of long-term neurological COVID
No full textA new study provides evidence for an association between COVID-19 and long-term neurological syndromes. The findings highlight the need for further research into the long-term neurological consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the development of strategies that lessen the effects of these consequences on patient quality of life and on healthcare systems
Moving images across borders: visual and digital resonances of human (im)mobilities
No full textThe monographic issue aims to question the link of human (im)mobilities and the circulation of images in transnational spaces, attempting to reframe and broaden the concept of mobility in at least two ways. First, mobility is conceived as a fundamental dimension of human experience, which as an analytic category embraces different phenomena such as migrations, diasporas, and settler colonialisms. The monographic issue attempts to think together these different forms of human mobility through the common ground of their visual dimension: images move with people, and people make images move. Like the anthropology of media and social media has shown in last decades, human mobility and cultural flows have been more and more interlinked thanks to the circulation of images in the global space. Moreover, digital technology and the access to internet and social media have played a crucial role in the production, circulation and reception of images in the global sphere. Anthropological research has shown how the human appropriation of new media re-produces social and cultural diversity, multiplying their uses rather than homogenizing their effects. At the same time ethnographic studies have shown the different ways images get embedded in local contexts and particular historical trajectories, while also bringing transformative power to social practices and collective imaginaries.
Starting from these premises, the monographic issue also attempts to undermine a simplified idea of mobility linked to global flows, increased human mobility and widespread access to digital media; its aim is rather to analyse the circulation of people and images without neglecting the power asymmetries that inform people’s experiences of (im)mobility. In this sense the publication project overtly addresses the question of state border crossing and (post)colonial relations, and the shaking of social, cultural and moral boundaries that human (im)mobilities can involve. From this perspective critical analysis compels us to delve deeper into the processes of human differentiation and hierarchization, which take place in unbalanced transnational spaces and are importantly influenced by the global economy of (racial) capitalism. Furthermore, the monographic issue questions visuality, (im)mobility and inequality from a temporal perspective that seek to connect past to future: if images are, in many ways, incontrovertible outputs of history, they are also a powerful ground for political imagination and rising ideas of future.
The monographic proposal includes nine articles and a photo-essay, and offers a wide range of ethnographic research that combines visual anthropological analysis with methodological richness (fieldwork, archival research, digital ethnography, collaborative anthropology...). and theoretical accuracy. The first part of the issue addresses the matter of the visual and digital tools used in the government of migrations under the current European border regime (D’Onofrio, Santanera). From the control of external state borders readers are then invited to take into account the issue of internal borders in the contemporary Italian society, and the ways they are appropriated and contested through social media and photography by the young generations of “new Italians” with a migratory background (Bachis, Cingolani). The link of Black diaspora and Italian collective memory is developed in an original way through the presentation of archival research of Eritrean diasporic filmmaking in Italy in the 70s (Jedlowski). A further thematic thread concerns the relationship between indigenous people and visual production in postcolonial contexts, which questions both ethnographic research on “exotic” postcards travelling from Latin America to European metropoles in colonial times (Scardozzi), and on contemporary indigenous filmmaking of India’s “De-Notified” Tribes following their enduring marginalization (Tilche and Khanna). In the last part of the issue, the anthropological analysis of the videos of the Iranian-American YouTuber Nasim Aghdam questions the idea of subjectivity linked to the aesthetic politics of audio-visual technology in capitalist conditions (Manoukian); the relationship of subjectivity, political violence and visual production is also taken into account from the perspective of “audiences” related to the circulation of images during Israel’s war on Gaza (Pilotto). The monographic issue includes a photo-essay, which is a co-written comment of the combination and juxtaposition of some of Mohamed Keita’s pictures taken in Italy, Mali and Kenya. It attempts to retrace connections among images and places that are also part of the photographer’s intimate experience and explore the possible dialogue between anthropology and photography through a collaborative approach (Keita and Pilotto)
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