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Claudio Melacarne, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Social Pedagogy at University of Siena. He is interested in studying professional development processes in organizations using transformative learning methodologies. He is Co-director of the international journal Educational Reflective Practices. He work as a consultant in public and private companies. He currently teaches Foundation of Social Pedagogy and Methodologies of Educational Research and Training”.
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October 2015 - January 2016
October 2008 - October 2015
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The emergency caused by the SARS-coV-2 virus has generated radical transformations in people's lives. This article analyzes one of the most widespread changes that the pandemic has introduced into work settings: the adoption of diversified forms of smart working. Starting from the observation that workplaces represent spaces of formal and informal...
The term radicalization has been used over the past decades with different interpretations. Coolsaet used the “catch-all concept” (2011, p. 261) to define the trend that many constructs use one idea in reference to different phenomena. Radicalization has, for many years, been synonymous with terrorism, with a particular focus on violent radicalizat...
La pandemia di Covid-19 ha rappresentato e continua a rappresentare un momento di crisi per molte società nel mondo. In tempi di difficoltà come questo, le teorie del complotto si diffondono molto rapidamente in quanto forniscono spiegazioni semplici a eventi complessi dando l'illusione di avere il controllo di una realtà sconosciuta e spesso spave...
L'articolo presenta un'analisi comparativa tra Paulo Freire e Erich Fromm. L'introduzione è incentrata sulla notevole importanza di studiare e interpretare il lavoro di Freire attualmente e sul suo contributo alla Pedagogia e ad altri ambiti. L'articolo riporta una sintesi delle biografie di Freire e Fromm e alcuni aspetti di similitudine che emerg...
The first part of the article is focused on the analysis of the theoretical framework on radicalization phenomena, describing how the scientific debate has only recently considered research that have focused on the phenomena of micro-radicalization and radicalization in everyday life. The second and last part of this contribution describes how the...
La radicalizzazione è un nuovo costrutto e una nuova area di interesse affermatasi dentro molti ambiti disciplinari. Negli ultimi anni questo concetto è stato utilizzato principalmente per descrivere i processi di radicalizzazione religiosa, politica, per identificare comportamenti violenti basati su ideologie e credenze. Il contributo, partendo da...
The article examines three teaching cases that collectively illustrate a transformative pedagogy grounded in practice-based studies and post-structural feminist pedagogy. This teaching methodology can help future teachers and adult educators begin to question taken-for-granted, culturally assimilated assumptions about their professional practice, i...
In this symposium, we explore how diverse governance systems influence the degree of transformation possible using adult education. We use the term adult education broadly, including various systems of learning such as communities, organisations, and universities. Humanity is at a critical turning point. The Western worldview has led to humanity ex...
The article analyzes the issue of higher education students’ employability, taking on two constructs as a point of view: Transversal skills as requested by workplaces, and active learning methods, focusing on the value of incorporating project management as a teaching device by allowing students to prepare themselves for the labor market.
The gene...
This contribution seeks to shed light on potential answers and solutions for selected critical incidents (CI). For these purposes, two well-defined CIs were chosen that allow for a wide range of possible interpretations across cultures. Against the background of the international Erasmus+ project entitled 'Critical Incidents in Intercultural Commun...
Il presente contributo intende offrire una lettura della figura del consulente pe-dagogico dentro l'evoluzione degli attuali scenari professionali. Nella prima parte sarà presa in esame la letteratura che ha sviluppato il dibattito sulla funzione consulenziale che caratterizza molti professionisti dell'educazione e della formazione. Nella seconda p...
Las actuales tecnologías digitales emergentes están generando nuevos modelos de comunicación y educación y nuevas formas de periodismo. Estas innovaciones, aún en fase experimental pero con una clara tendencia a crecer, promueven cambios en la forma en que hacemos y percibimos las noticias, en la forma de transmitirlas y, por lo tanto, en la produc...
The society we live in is so diverse and mixed that we are no longer able to understand it only through traditional research perspectives. It is multiethnic and we often see that the stories shared in the public arena do not reflect what happens in everyday life.
People are living a fragmentation of cultures and traditions due to the contact betwee...
I big data in campo educativo aprono la strada allo studio del comportamento di apprendimento e possono rappresentare un cambiamento di rotta importante nella valutazione educativa in senso formativo. Le sequenze di azioni e comportamenti attivati dagli studenti ogni volta che interagiscono con un test o con una piattaforma di apprendimento sommini...
I big data in campo educativo aprono la strada allo studio del comportamento di apprendimento e possono rappresentare un cambiamento di rotta importante nella valutazione educativa in senso formativo. Le sequenze di azioni e comportamenti attivati dagli studenti ogni volta che interagiscono con un test o con una piattaforma di apprendimento sommini...
The chapters contained in this special issue are summarized here, highlighting core themes and future implications for research and practice for adult education and lifelong learning.
This paper uses the constructs of capacity and competencies to explore how transversal and vertical skills are becoming more central than in the past for adult educators and higher educational design teaching. In this chapter, the authors will describe the context where this idea was created and describe two approaches that develop transversal and...
Mentre l'Agenda 2030 delle Nazioni Unite (ONU, 2015), siglata nel 2015, pone l'attenzione sul tema dello sviluppo sostenibile per le generazioni future, la Commissione europea (EC, 2017), al contempo, recepisce i 17 obiettivi strategici di tale sviluppo e basa su questi le priorità delle proprie politiche. Dalla occupazione, alla costruzione del la...
This chapter aims at defining a framework for the most recent approaches and tools used to evaluate Transformative Learning (TL) processes and its outcomes. Many experiences and tools have been discussed and validated in the international debate. The literature shows that there are different approaches to validate and use these tools suggesting tha...
This dataset provides de-identified raw responses to a non-anonymous three-wave online survey with a 12-month time lag. Data collection was part of a larger project on the development of career calling in Italian college students. The first wave was collected during the fall of 2014. Participants were bachelor's or master's students enrolled in 24...
The article deals with the concept of capability and soft skills and how these competencies are becoming central for instructors and educators in formal and informal adult education settings. The article starts questioning how higher education classrooms can become a space to promote employability using collaborative development and action inquiry....
Una delle sfide emergenti nei sistemi universitari europei è sostenere l’attivazione e la diffusione all’interno dei percorsi universitari di attività formative capaci di supportare l’acquisizione di quelle competenze trasversali considerate strategiche per aumentare l’occupabilità degli studenti (Cleary, Flynn e Thomasson, 2006). Nel saggio gli Au...
In the actual scenario of the European labour market characterized
by a continuous advancement in knowledge and a workforce high mobility
rate, universities in European Union are questioning themselves
how preparing their students for future work.
The book is the final report of the researches, discussions, conversations around and about the Project PRIN Employability & Competences which took place on March 9th-‐11th, 2017 within an International Conference at the University of Florence. It was the final event of the project PRIN2012LATR9N which aims were: «to design innovative programs for...
"Se i medici sapessero se i pazienti potessero" is an Action-Research project sponsored by the Department of Education, Humanities and Intercultural Communication at the University of Siena, started in March 2016. Built on the experience and the literature that identifies the group as a resource and place of peer learning, the goal of the project i...
The projects of education and training with the methodology of "alternation between school and work" are possible for all students between 15° and 18° years of age, with the aim of making flexible the school training and connect the theoretical study of classroom with forms of learning activities in a professional context. It’s essential to connect...
Come si apprende una professione come quella dell'insegnante? Quali sono le pratiche più promettenti da utilizzare in aula per sostenere i processi di apprendimento degli studenti?
Senza alcuna pretesa di fornire al lettore una panoramica esaustiva delle possibili risposte, il testo parte da una prospettiva ben precisa: l'apprendimento è situato,...
This paper is focused on the impact of the technologies in workplace. The research is inspired by the perspective of activity theory and show how the technological mediation has to be supported by immaterial elements to become an learning experience. The research is a case study focused on the innovation processes started in a Department of Educati...
Educational Reflective Practices arises within the framework of a wide inter-national network of university professors, consultants, and practitioners, who over the last 30 years have been using and sharing a reflective approach to the study of educational processes. The topics which the journal focuses on are: the development of reflective thinkin...
Il rapporto tra tecnologie, apprendimento e innovazione organizzativa è stato per molti anni un ambito di ricerca sviluppato soprattutto dagli studi organizzativi. Da anni a queste ricerche si affiancano indagini interessanti promosse anche da aree scientifiche apparentemente lontane per tradizione e interessi, evento questo che ha generato un ampl...
The educational research experience presented in this article has been solicited by the Confartigianato Imprese Arezzo with the aim to support the professional development of their middle management, as a consequence of an imminent generational change within the same organisation. This experience has seen the participation of a training group made...
Il volume pone l’attenzione sulle tematiche connesse ai processi di apprendimento nella vita quotidiana focalizzandosi in particolare sui dispositivi educativi che possono supportare le esigenze di crescita e di emancipazione personali e sociali. Una delle tesi centrali attorno alla quale ruota l’impianto argomentativo del volume è rintracciabile n...
The dark side of biography between meaning, action and tacit knowledge In the last thirty years, about national and international educational research, is be greatly estab-lished – in the paradigm of constructivism research – a significant attention about knowledge proc-ess and practice construction in the educational and professional context. In t...
The qualitative study has involved 100 novice teachers attending a two year training course in Teacher College at the Universities of Florence and Siena and has been focused on the analysis of transformative learning processes (Mezirow, 1990; 1991) occurring during the practicum within the interaction among novice and expert teachers using a narrat...
