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Risorse e criticità della migrazione: il punto di vista delle giovani generazioni
No full textIntroduzione
Le nostre comunità negli ultimi anni hanno subito profonde trasformazioni legate ai processi migratori soprattutto dal punto di vista delle relazioni e della convivenza tra gruppi diversi La diversità culturale può essere considerata una risorsa preziosa per le società attuali ma anche essere fonte di conflitto tra gruppi e aumentare atteggiamenti di pregiudizio nei confronti delle persone immigrate: emerge sempre più, nel contesto italiano, la necessità di costruire una società interculturale (Mantovani, 2004; Leone, 2011) a fronte di una stereotipizzazione negativa degli immigrati (Volpato e Durante, 2010). Donnell e Tharp (2011) sottolineano la necessità di integrare i concetti di cultura e comunità in una psicologia culturale di comunità che consideri in maniera sempre più estesa le dimensioni contestuali e relazionali implicate nell’analisi dei fenomeni migratori. In ambito internazionale (Karasz, Singelis, 2009) ma anche nazionale emerge il ruolo importante che le metodologie qualitative possono avere nello studio della migrazione (De Fina, 2007) e nello studio della società multiculturale (Dovigo, 2005). In particolare il Photovoice (Wang, 1999), metodologia qualitativa di ricerca azione partecipata (PAR) permette alle persone coinvolte di identificare e rappresentare con la fotografia la propria quotidianità e promuovere un cambiamento personale e della comunità attraverso il confronto e la discussione in gruppo delle risorse e delle criticità che la comunità offre. Lo strumento del Photovoice sembra acquisire un ruolo privilegiato per lo studio e la partecipazione alle tematiche della migrazione e dell’integrazione.
Obiettivi e Metodi
Un primo obiettivo del presente lavoro è quello di far partecipare i giovani adulti ad un progetto di ricerca partecipata che insegni loro il metodo del photovoice (Nechekles et al., 2007). Un secondo obiettivo è quello di far rappresentare, attraverso la fotografia, le risorse e le criticità della migrazione nei diversi territori oggetto d’indagine. Un terzo obiettivo è la promozione di gruppi critici di discussione per riflettere e risolvere questioni rilevanti rispetto ai processi di integrazione e acculturazione. Sono stati coinvolti circa 100 giovani adulti formati all’uso del photovoice abitanti su tutto il territorio ligure. Sono stati costituiti 10 gruppi territoriali caratterizzati da livelli socioculturali, di genere e formazione diversificati.
Conclusioni
Il Photovoice ha permesso ai giovani di esprimere la loro opinione e riflettere sia a livello individuale sia di gruppo sulle tematiche oggetto d’indagine e di proporre iniziative per affrontare, facilitare e promuovere i processi d’integrazione. Sembra, pertanto, uno strumento in grado di coinvolgere i partecipanti sui temi della migrazione e farli divenire costruttori attivi di cambiamento sociale
Team-based learning and life skills: a qualitative study from psychological students point of view.
No full textPurpose: This research employs a modified Team-Based Learning method
to realise students perspective on how it can develop traits characteristics
such individual growth and important life skills, like critical thinking.
In fact the higher education has been criticized for not developing the
competences specific for professional expertise, which are a necessary
requirement in the training of psychologists in Europe today. The present
work goes beyond the employment of TBL method mainly in courses
regarding healthcare, enriching the small number of studies that used TBL
in teaching Psychology.
Methods: Taking part in these study 50 psychology students of a university
of the northwester Italy. The study used the qualitative method of the diary.
Participants were asked to write a diary about their TBL experience. The
content of the diaries was analysed using the qualitative analysis software
NVivo.
Results: The topics strictly concerning the team and its functioning, emerged
are: team, communication, comparisons with other teams, feelings,
group atmosphere, TBL method’s strengths, TBL method’s weaknesses
and evaluation. Participants identified TBL as a positive experience and
one, which the university system should employ more in its courses. This
experience allowed them, in their opinion, to develop important life skills,
like critical thinking. From those findings is possible to affirm that modified
TBL is a method much appreciated by students because improve their
personal growth. They identified overall positive emotions arising from the
TBL experience, especially in relation to their expectations about the result
of the final exam. Generally, students appreciate TBL experience: teams
are described with a positive impression of teammates, as a place where
mutual listening and open and a collaborative atmosphere are experienced.
Conclusion: This study improves the lacking literature about the
employment of TBL in psychology classes by qualitative approach
Parental Ethnotheories and Family Routines: A Comparison between Italian and Ecuadorian Mothers in Italian Context
No full textThis chapter presents research that compares Italian and Ecuadorian mothers’ parental ethnotheories with specific attention to family routines, care practices and children’s education. The participants were 30 mothers of children aged 4–8 years (15 Italian and 15 Ecuadorian) living in Italy. The participants responded to a semi-structured interview. With regard to daily routines, the results show many similarities in both groups. Parental style was one of the areas in which immigrant mothers perceived a substantial difference from Italians. With respect to relationships with their children, Italian participants focused on the relationships’ affective aspects and their expressive and emotional connotations. Ecuadorian mothers also underlined the ethical dimension of responsibility. There were both similarities and differences in the parental ethnotheories of the two groups and in their organization of daily routines and parental roles. A general similarity of perceptions between the two groups emerged in comparison with the previous generation
Photovoice as Qualitative methodology: Promote critical dialogue on intercultural integration.
No full textEnhancing critical dialogue about intercultural integration:The Photovoice technique
No full textThe present research used the Photovoice method to enhance critical and intercultural dia-logue in a group of host young adults. Photovoice belongs to the field of participatory actionresearch and Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), methods generally used ininvestigations of individual and social change. Taking part in this study were 99 Italian sub-jects (75 females and 24 males), living in a two north-western region of Italy. Findings showthat integration is the most frequent acculturative strategy represented by the participants,followed by assimilation, separation and marginalisation. Participants also represent posi-tive attitudes, that underline an openness towards others and feelings of equality. They alsoarticulate solidarity, feelings of reciprocity towards immigrants and hope for a more inter-cultural future. Positive contact with immigrants is experienced. Participants also revealednegative attitudes, identifying the presence of mutual closure and uneasiness towards othergroups. Moreover, they think that host negative attitudes include indifference, intolerance,prejudice, racism, discrimination, fear and ignorance. Conversely, they think that immi-grants live in a situation of delusion about their own expectations of their experience,loneliness and isolation. Participants say that this study made them think about issues theydo not usually explore and to develop a critical dialogue about them. From these findings,it may be possible to design a positive representation of an intercultural reality that isbecoming more and more realistic in which young adults are amenable to an increasinglyintercultural society and desirous of acquiring better understandings of other cultures
Giving a face to immigration and integration processes: the use of Photovoice with Italian young adults
No full textThis study used Photovoice to investigate the perspectives of majority youth in Italy about the immigration and integration processes. The participants were 99 Italian young adults living in two northwestern regions of Italy. Images produced by young adults and subsequent discussion focused on the benefits, challenges and possible solutions to foster intergroup integration. The proposed solutions involved intergroup contact, deepening knowledge of other cultures, and recognition of immigrants’ rights. These solutions demonstrate young adults’ openness toward immigrants and their attitude regarding intercultural integration
Comprendere il fenomeno migratorio attraverso il photovoice: quali criticità e quali possibili soluzioni
No full textPhotovoice and interpretation of pictures in a group discussion: A community psychology approach
No full textThe primary objective of this article is to contribute to the literature on the Photovoice method through analysis of its characteristics. The Photovoice visual methodology often employed in qualitative research in the frame of community psychology because it enables participants to express their ideas using pictures. This study aims to demonstrate the utility of Photovoice through presentation of evidence gathered during our study on immigration to exemplify some issues surrounding group interaction, picture interpretation and symbolic meaning. This qualitative method has some defining features: first, Photovoice offers participants the opportunity to discuss and interpret their photographs in a group where each participant can share his/her perspective, based on his/her experiences and values. Second, the method allows participants to represent an idea by capturing images of inanimate objects that may symbolise the personal meaning attributed to the research topics. Third, it is well suited to communicating a general understanding of the research topics with the benefit that it may integrate influences from the participants’ lives
Parental Competence in Italy: A Comparison Between Italian and Immigrant Parents
No full textThe migration experience could influence parental competence
perception in immigrant parents. Within this framework the
current work focuses on immigrant parenthood and whether a
family’s migratory path could lead parents to feel less
competent in their parental roles. The aim of the present study
is to analyze perceptions of parental competence and family
routines among immigrant and Italian parents during the
middle childhood stages. The results showed that immigrant
parents perceive themselves as more competent than Italians.
Immigrants also attribute more importance to the dimension of
relational and regulatory routines in daily family life than do
Italian parents. Professionals can use these findings to better
understand how best to enhance practices and strategies
appropriate to the complexity of these intercultural contexts
Daily Family Routines of Italian and Ecuadorian Immigrant Mothers in Everyday Life
No full textThis study compares Italian mothers’ and Ecuadorian immigrant mothers’ daily family routines. Thirty mothers took part in this investigation: 15 Italians ( M = 37.5 years, with ages ranging from 30 to 42 years) and 15 Ecuadorians ( M = 36.1 years, with ages ranging from 18 to 46 years and having lived in Italy for an average of 15 years), with children ranging in age from 4 to 8 years. The objective is to highlight the differences and similarities between the daily routines and family relations that characterize the lives of each of the two groups of participants. The instruments employed in service of these aims were in-depth interviews and diaries. The results showed similarities regarding the routines of Italian and Ecuadorian families. However, a relevant difference emerged regarding their perceptions of social support. Specifically, Italians receive more social support from their parents than do Ecuadorians, who are supported more by other relatives or by friends
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