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Chapter 15 La medicina predittiva e il dibattito etico sui test genetici
(2019)
The "genetic revolution" that characterized the beginning of the third millennium
and the most recent “genomic revolution” have made me wait more and more
of human existence have become the object of scientific and ...
Questioni di vita
(2019)
If bioethics has established itself for the past fifty years, it is because it has been able to intercept the questions of an ethical nature raised by the irruption of technology in the world of life.
When genetic engineering ...
Design & Usabilità in ambito sanitario
(2020)
The progressive ageing of the global population is on the one hand a goal of today's society, and at the same time one of the main socio-economic problems of health and pension systems. The transition from hospitalization ...
Design Research in the Digital Era
(2020)
This book proposes an overview of the researches initiated in 2015 in the Design PhD programme of Politecnico di Milano. All of them explore the implications of the ongoing digital transformations, from the specific ...
Emerging Materials & Technologies
(2020)
The book focuses on four exemplified EM&Ts areas as results of the methods, gaps and issues related to their teaching methods. The four areas are: Experimental Wood-Based EM&Ts, Interactive Connected Smart (ICS) Materials ...
Robot e cobot nell’impresa e nella scuola
(2022)
The book deals with the transversal theme of hymn-technological development through robots and cobots, the introduction of which crosses now business, scholastic and educational contexts.
Starting from an introduction ...
Dalla società plurale allo Stato delle masse
(2022)
This book represents the first monograph on the philosopher, economist and sociologist Emil Lederer (1882-1939). Director of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik from 1922 to 1933, he was then forced to move ...
L’Educatore Digitale in sanità
(2022)
More than two decades have passed since the start of the national programme of Continuing Education in Medicine and, during this time, training for health professionals has become a pathway co-constructed by a plurality ...
Circular Economy in the Agrifood Sector
(2022)
The circular economy is recognised as a new economic paradigm as opposed to the traditional linear open-ended economy model based on endless exploitation of resources and prioritising profit over sustainability. Aligning ...
Corte costituzionale e “materia penale”
(2022)
The progressive affirmation of the European criminal law and the increasingly activity of the European Courts in criminal field have profoundly affected the corollaries of the principle of criminal legality, enshrined in ...
Il fattore “tempo” nella giustizia costituzionale
(2022)
The volume investigates the management of the “time” factor in the context of constitutional justice from the point of view of the modulation of the effects over time of the declaration of unconstitutionality and the ...
Vagueness Markers in Italian
(2022)
Moving from a broad socio-pragmatic perspective, this study analyses how speakers of different ages use a class of items and constructions that codify intentional vagueness in Italian.
Items as un po’ ‘a bit’, tipo ‘kind’, ...
Lettura e dispersione
(2018)
Reading and dispersion constitute, in different ways, two crucial points of scholastic reality and of educational research. This book highlights the multiple cognitive and emotional effects of reading and, more generally, ...
Tecnologie, lingua, cittadinanza
(2018)
"The publication documents the experience of action research conducted by the four Provincial Centers for Adult Education (CPIA) of Friuli Venezia Giulia as part of an integrated program of national and international ...
Individui, comunità e istituzioni in emergenza
(2018)
Starting from the experiences of the "Velino for Children" project, which has worked in the Lazio territories hit by the earthquakes of 2016-2017, this book focuses on the models of psycho-socio-pedagogical intervention ...
Ubi Social, Ibi Ius
(2018)
Through a constitutional framework of social networks and the deepening of the liability regime provided for digital intermediaries, in this book we try to understand if and how the existing legal rules, or those desirable ...
Il gioco del killer
(2020)
This volume collects the contributions of scholars who analyze mafia cultures and juvenile deviance generating a close comparison between different theoretical and research perspectives.
Idee geografiche per educare al mondo
(2020)
This book aims to contribute to the renewal of geographic education and the teaching of geography. Traditional methods of teaching geography are becoming increasingly obsolete. Hence the need to take new paths in search ...
Gli strumenti per leggere il mondo
(2020)
This book is a tool for geographic education and the teaching of geography aimed at supporting the teacher's classroom work and intended for school teachers of all levels. The training course is designed to share geography ...
The Provide training course
(2020)
This volume describes the ideational effort required to design and implement a training-course model for "Experts in proximity violence". The Pilot project design has envisaged a framework where the concepts referring to ...
Professione insegnante
(2019)
Nowadays, what's the idea of professionalism for the teacher? And how is it possible to promote the professional development of teachers in the changing school? This volume offers a significant cross-section with the ...
Scuole in movimento
(2019)
Digital scholarship tra ricerca e didattica
(2019)
This volume collects the contributions presented at the conference "Digital scholarship between research and teaching. Studies, research, experiences "(Florence, 5 October 2017), which involved national and international ...
Immaginare l’altrove nell’epoca dell’Antropocene
(2023)
This book explores the processes through which particular places take shape in the imaginaries, perceptions and narratives of people who do not inhabit them, or who have inhabited them only recently. The ways in which we ...
Re-manufacturing networks for tertiary architectures
(2022)
This book deals with re-manufacturing, recondition, reuse and repurpose considered as winning strategies for boosting regenerative circular economy in the building sector. It presents many of the outcomes of the research ...
Bologna dopo la pandemia
(2023)
Covid-19 has dramatically shown some of the limits of our cities. Labor market, tourism, service sector have suffered a backlash that can be read as an “explosion” of pre-existing inequalities. The slow and progressive ...
Società e Università
(2023)
The book traces the main stages of third mission and social impact assessment, in the context of the (recent) history of higher education and research assessment in Italy, starting with a review of the transformation of ...
Makers at school
(2023)
This volume outlines a theoretical background on the Maker Culture and emerging scenarios in educational technologies in the post-digital era. It will present some experiences and case studies based on Maker Education and ...
Ecosistemi formativi inclusivi
(2023)
The volume titled ""Inclusive Educational Ecosystems"" presents a collection of new experiences and synergies focused on the theme of inclusion within several educational contexts. Through the insightful contributions of ...
Panicocene
(2023)
In a context of growing concern about the impacts of climate change and increasing alarmism toward migration phenomena, the possibility of "environmental migration" attracts considerable attention. What are the (in)desired ...
Learning Analytics per lo sviluppo professionale
(2023)
The book investigates the potential of using Learning Analytics techniques in a large digital community of teachers, not only defining the outcome of such experimentation but also concretizing a shared interpretation of ...
Le forme della voce
(2023)
Literary writing has always found correspondences in oral performance. One could even think of writing a history of literature 'sub specie vocis'. However, it is with the technological innovations of the 20th century that ...
Curricoli digitali
(2023)
The present volume provides documentary evidence of the project “Internet Rights: towards a Digital Citizenship”, which began in 2016 through a ministerial announcement and ended in June 2022. In the project collaborated ...
Città strategiche
(2023)
The administration of metropolitan cities is a complicated issue that, in every country, has forced legislators and interpreters to face problems previously unseen. This complexity, descending by the uniqueness of those ...
Imparare ad apprendere senza soluzione di continuità negli spazi ibridi
(2023)
If it is true that no one is able to predict the future scenarios in which new generations will need to move, it is also true that we can at least try to hypothesise how to 'equip' them to undertake the great journey towards ...
Seven Years of Design Research at Politecnico di Milano
(2022)
Which are the main research funds currently accessed by the Department of Design? What are the topics explored through them and which are the interconnections with the Department core research activities? Also, what are ...
Résilience et pastoralisme de montagne en France
(2022)
In France, mountain pastoralism plays a non-neglectable role in the production of quality products, the dynamism, the cultural identity and the management of the mountainous areas. However, some economic, political and ...
Mediterranean Urban Campus for Regeneration at the Dubai 2020 Expo
(2022)
Adaptivity of the urban open spaces to face the climatic, socio-ecological, multicultural and health challenges, raises questions with multiple design implications, which cannot be solved only with the functional, formal, ...
Inside Debt Financing
(2023)
Debt finance raised from corporate insiders has attracted the attention of legal scholars over the past several years. Such an interest comes as no surprise. The variety of legal treatments reserved for insider loans across ...
Preventing and Countering Online Hate Speech
(2024)
Social media and chats are not 'clouds' disconnected from reality: they are concrete spaces of interpersonal relationships where words, even virtual ones, can become very powerful tools of oppression. In fact, living on ...
La colpa e il perdono
(2024)
The book presents the results of a socio-legal research, in historical perspective, concerning the exercise of the pardon power by the Italian President of Republic. Focusing on archival records, using both quantitative ...
Il dono di sé, dono per gli altri
(2024)
Blood is not trivial; it questions the most intimate representations of human nature and is at the center of our imagination as human beings. Blood donation calls into question the body's status very concretely; It is the ...
Diventare intraprendenti e sviluppare il proprio potenziale
(2024)
This volume is dedicated to the promotion of transversal competences related to entrepreneurship as the capacity to be resourceful, creative, and able to develop one's potential in learning, career paths and personal growth. ...
Soggetti, effetti e pratiche urbane delle popolazioni temporanee
(2024)
This volume addresses the issue of temporary living connected with voluntary forms of mobility, where transience is a choice, such as for tourists, off-site students, temporary labour migrants and lifestyle migrants. The ...
Al di là dell’aiuto
(2024)
What is international development cooperation? A unilateral transfer of financial aid from richer to poorer contexts, or a “positive-sum” game in which each party – different in roles, resources and responsibilities – can ...
Resist to exist
(2024)
The book chronicles faithfully several months, from June to December 2004, during the Second Intifada, which the author spent in the Northern West Bank as a trainer for a group of Palestinian psychologists to help them ...
Come a casa
(2024)
The volum presents a theoretical and operational reflection on the theme of social innovation starting from the results of the evaluation of the experimentation Abitare Inclusivo promoted by Friuli Venezia Giulia Region ...
I quaderni di Valeria
(2024)
The book offers an articulated picture of the challenges and opportunities of school inclusion. Starting from a broad and inclusive epistemological framework, the authors delve into the crucial role of Pedagogy and Special ...
Dizionario di sociologia per la persona
(2024)
Questo secondo volume del Dizionario di sociologia per la persona continua l’opera collettiva dedicata alla comprensione di categorie e concetti sociologici e fenomeni sociali secondo la prospettiva specifica di chi intende ...
Oncologia post-Covid
(2024)
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a substantial reorganisation of hospital structures. The oncological care system itself has been reorganised in an attempt to guarantee, on the one hand, the safety of ...
Fatti e fabule
(2024)
This book is the outcome of a research on cultural geography and critical ocean geographies that explores the possibility of applying the challenges of the recent oceanic turn to the Mediterranean. In particular, the ...
Educazione è Sostenibilità
(2025)
The adoption of the 2030 Agenda has made clear that sustainable development involves everyone: individual states, the international community, politics, the third sector, schools, and universities. The success of this ...
Esplorazione degli spazi illusori
(2024)
The Sala dei Cento Giorni, created by Giorgio Vasari in 1546 in the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, is one of the most remarkable examples of quadratura perspective—an artistic technique that blends painting and ...
Truthfulness or trib-truthfulness of financial reporting? A Historical Analysis
(2025)
The book aims to analyze the issue of fiscal interference. This first volume examines the Italian situation from the 1860s to the 1960s. The analysis is carried out by comparing the articles of the Commercial Code first, ...
From the ‘White Paper’ of the Tuscany Region to Replicable Best Practices in the Reception of Persons in Need of International Protection
(2024)
The volume “From the ‘White Paper’ of the Tuscany Region to Replicable Best Practices in the Reception of Persons in Need of International Protection” presents a selection of best practices implemented in the Tuscany region ...
Gli shock petroliferi degli anni Settanta
(2025)
Fifty years after the first oil crisis, Italy and most of the western countries are still facing the problem of their own national energy security and the challenges of the global energy transition to non-fossil sources. ...
La Ricerca-Formazione
(2025)
This volume presents the work of a research group based at the Centre for Educational Research on Teacher Professional Development (CRESPI) in Italy. The research objective was to produce a model for defining indicators ...
La musica classica va a scuola
(2025)
This book is the result of a research project funded by the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and entitled Classical Music in Music Education.
It is aimed primarily at scholars of music pedagogy, primary school teachers, ...
Chimica, società e ambiente
(2025)
In July 2021, the European Commission presented the new package of measures called Fit For 55 with which the EU intends to increase the decarbonisation objectives to 2030, aiming for a reduction of -55% of CO2 emissions. ...
La storia del MOICA come storia delle casalinghe italiane. Un'analisi storico-sociale del lavoro familiare
(2017)
The Movimento Italiano Casalinghe (MOICA) was born in Brescia on 11st November 1982 thanks to Tina Leonzi and a small group of friends. Their desire was to create an association of Christian inspiration that could give ...
Geo-didattiche per il futuro. La geografia alla prova delle competenze
(2017)
This volume comes from the 4th National Workshop of the Italian Association of Geography Teachers (Milan, 26-27 August 2015) and proposes a reflection shared by scholars and teachers on the potentials and criticalities of ...
Lo sviluppo professionale docente dalle competenze alla capacitazione
(2018)
"With the evolution of today’s educational contexts, teacher education is becoming increasingly important into European political discussion, in relation to its ability to improve the results of student learning. The need ...
I dati Invalsi
(2018)
The volume contains a collection of contributions presented at the conference “INVALSI data: a tool for research”, held in Rome the 20th September 2016. On this occasion, scholars from different professional contexts ...
Crisi economica e comportamenti illegali
(2018)
"Economic and sociological research has long shown that the widespread presence of criminal organizations in the territory is a factor that contrasts economic and social development. This is just one aspect of the complex ...
Massive Codesign
(2018)
"This book focuses on ""massive codesign"": the idea that multiple and/or numerous participants having different voices collaborate in a design process broken down into different steps and formats and resulting in a relevant ...
Children after a Natural disaster
(2018)
"Catastrophes and natural disasters lead to numerous problems in the education of children and teenagers, who present as the most vulnerable subjects in the communities affected. Often, in these circumstances, adults ...
Le cose non sono quello che sembrano
(2017)
"The essays collected in this volume wonder about different aspects of the crisis we are experiencing and discuss the interpretative models best suited to approach them. From the actor's theory to the transition theories; ...
La ricerca scientifica al tempo dei social media
(2017)
The book, after introducing the concept of "digital scholarship" and the interpretative nodes connected to it, retraces the issues related to the implications of the social media usage in the scientific production workflow. ...
La città in campagna e la campagna in città. Architettura e natura. Atti del IV Convegno diffuso internazionale San Venanzo, Terni, 13-17 settembre 2016
(2017)
The volume collects the proceedings of the IV international widespread convention held in September 2016 in San Venanzo (Italy) within the event "Architecture and Nature - Simonetta Bastelli Award". It is divided into as ...
Geografia per l'inclusione
(2017)
"This volume gathers the contributions related to the call for papers presented on the occasion of the 59th National Conference of AIIG (Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, 29 September - 3 ...
Unibook
(2017)
"The project that inspires this volume is the production and analysis of certain and stabilized data on the university system, in an interpretative framework presented by teachers and researchers who have long been engaged ...
La violenza tra tradizione e digital society
(2017)
"The text explores the phenomenon of violence, retracing the sociological theory from the classical paradigms to the frontier of interpretative readings outlined in the digital society age. The aim is to arrive at an ...
Giovani a tempo indeterminato. Valori e atteggiamenti dei giovani romani
(2017)
Being young in Italy in times of crisis means living with a mood that oscillates between depression and euphoria. Rather than thinking about the future, which is not known in any way, it is useful to look for some satisfaction ...
La Dolce Vite. L'apicoltura come intervento di educazione assistita con le persone disabili
(2017)
A case of Animal Assisted Education with bees by the Pyramid Cooperative of Arcore (MB), which has started an innovative project with disabled people to teach them how to breed bees, extract honey (called "La Dolce Vite"), ...
Technologies and trust
(2017)
What is trust and how new technologies are changing or affecting the concept of trust? This publication offers insights from researchers working in educational technology and distance education, collected in the frame of ...
The Effectiveness of Social Rights in the EU
(2018)
"Increasing inequalities, social exclusion and poverty within the EU (although at a different scale between States) prove that the effectiveness of social rights falls behind their formal entitlements and their judicial ...
Ocse Pisa 2012. Contributi di approfondimento
(2017)
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. This volume ...
Dimensione didattica, tecnologica e organizzativa. La costruzione del processo di innovazione a scuola
(2016)
The first volume of an editorial project divided into two works: this is dedicated to the relationship between the methodological-didactic, technological and organizational dimensions in the process of school innovation; ...
Intercultura e inclusione
(2016)
This volume offers a theoretical framework, numerous evidences and a series of hints to work in a multilingual and multicultural classroom, offering teachers, educators and experts tools consistent with the vision of "a ...
L’educazione permanente a partire dalle prime età della vita
(2016)
The volume presents the Acts of the SIPED International Conference "Permanent Education From the Early Ages of Life", in which the concept of education is explored as a process that continues throughout all the life and ...
Cittadinanze nella storia dello Stato contemporaneo
(2017)
Cittadinanze offers a new perspective on the history of the State, understood in the aristotelian sense as the whole of its citizens. The volume contains twelve essays dedicated to the possible ways in which citizenship ...
La valutazione del capitale intellettuale
(2017)
Intellectual capital is gaining in importance over the years, evolving from a "needed to win" resource, necessary to control the market, into a "needed to play" resource, namely an essential element for the survival of the ...
Il Progetto L E O N E. Un'esperienza di formazione, inserimento lavorativo e avvio d'impresa di soggetti a rischio di emarginazione sociale
(2016)
The book traces the educational plans, activities and interventions and the job placement paths of the "Progetto L.E.O.N.E." promoted by "Regione Liguria".
Chapter Beyond Letarouilly
(2023)
