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Emancipation: the Responsability of the Gaze
No full textEmancipation generates from a process of human conscientization, as observed by Paulo Freire, according to whom awareness and critical thinking empower people to be active social subjects. Emancipation is a process of public growth. Within the emergencies of our globalized scenario, which often inhibit dreams and projects, there many are individuals and groups who recognize the possibility of liberating themselves by reinforcing the symbolic scope of artistic languages. Art expression is the place of de-coincidence, of production of concrete, courageous, visionary actions, the space of re-signification of present times through creative and inclusive interactions. The human search for emancipation opens up a multiverse of experiences worth of meaningful appreciation: identifying and placing oneself in it implies a creative act, the ethics will to question the correctness of one's way of life in the open search for a social well-being
Dinamiche evolutive e alcune caratteristiche del fenomeno del suicidio in Italia e in Europa
No full textNew philosophical paradigms and demand for law: space for innovation. Reflections on the time of transition as a practical structure.
No full textIn order to accommodate social change, it is essential to innovate, introduce new conceptual systems, new regulations, new procedures for production and new spaces for action and interaction. This requires to develop new theories and translating them into practical structures, into adaptive strategies in the awareness of the challenges and performance that the environment-world requires. No innovation can have a lasting effect and impact in case it does not respond to needs already present within the context in which it occurs
Background–Overview of international studies on visual languages and communication
Full text linkIn a world redundant of visual texts, it is reasonable to expect that many students may not be critical readers of images and visual information. Teaching visual literacy requires students and teachers to have a shared visual metalanguage (a shared, specialized terminology) that describes meaning. Access to a visual metalanguage may enable to accurately talk about how meaning is expressed in visual texts, in the same way that we use a language grammar system to talk about meaning created in written and spoken texts. A metalanguage requires a comparison of texts as well a discussion and identification of visual semiotic choices made to construct particular meanings. Visual literacy is an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and multidimensional area of knowledge. Different kinds of visuals may be applied in almost all subject matter areas and in different media. One should rather talk about “visual literacies” than visual literacy. Similar concepts are created in different places and at different times, named with different terms: diagrammatic literacy, digital visual literacy, graphical literacy and visual literacy are all terms representing concepts concerned with the ability to understand and work with visual representations. Visual language is not universal because pictures are not self-explanatory. Visual language usually needs verbal support. Images often function as information, but they are also aesthetic and creative objects that require additional levels of interpretation and analysis. Finding visual materials in text-based environments requires specific types of research skills. The use, sharing, and reproduction of visual materials also raise particular ethical and legal considerations. Visual literacies education challenges students to develop a combination of abilities related to information literacy, visual communication, interpretation, and technology and digital media use
Can psychological wellbeing be a predictor of change through travel? An exploratory study on young Dutch travellers
No full textThis paper focuses on the impact of psychological wellbeing on the change perceived after a travel experience by young students. Wellbeing is investigated as a consequence and not as an antecedent of travel, though literature assumes the subjectivity of the travel experience. Expanding on existing literature, it is hypothesized that ‘change through travel’ is a three-dimensional concept: travellers may feel changed in their relationship with themselves, the other and the natural environment. In 2015 a survey was designed to explore the impact of wellbeing on change as a benefit from travel and a questionnaire administrated in a Dutch university. PCA confirmed the hypothesis and showed three-dimensionality of change. Logistic regression models assessed the impact of wellbeing on change. Results suggest that four out of six wellbeing components (positive relations to others, autonomy, purpose in life, self-acceptance) influence the dimensions of change. Implications of these results for academics and professionals are discussed
Traiettorie formative interculturali. Le dinamiche laboratoriali nell’esperienza dell’Università degli Studi di Macerata
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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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