Primary school teachers’ training needs to meet the challenges of 21st century science education

In the age of the Anthropocene, ordinary citizens have to make choices and decisions on complex and controversial socio-scientific issues that can have dramatic consequences on both their individual lives and the community's public life. That is why today, more than in the past, science education matters, and in OECD countries, it is compulsory for all students from kindergarten to age 15 or higher. According to the Pisa 2025 Science Framework, a 15-year-old school leaver aspiring to think an...

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ASPETTATIVE DEGLI INSEGNANTI DI SCUOLA PRIMARIA E SECONDARIA SUGLI INTERVENTI DIRETTI E INDIRETTI DELLO PSICOLOGO SCOLASTICO

Gutkin e Conoley (1990) hanno distinto due diverse modalità di erogazione delle attività nei servizi di psicologia scolastica: una di tipo diretto, secondo la quale lo psicologo si occupa della diagnosi/intervento sull’allievo, e una di tipo indiretto, dove lo psicologo fornisce agli insegnanti i mezzi necessari per valutare la situazione e per sviluppare l’intervento. L’obiettivo di questa indagine, condotta su un campione di 50 insegnanti di scuola primaria e 50 di scuola secondaria, è quel...

Integrating back analysis and forward modelling of a debris flow with GB-InSAR data to assess the risk in a mountainous valley floor

Debris flows are water-laden collapsing masses of soil and fragmented rocks. Those related to slope failures rush down mountainsides, funnel into stream channels and form thick deposits on valley floors. Usually, they are also associated with intense erosion along their path, that leads to a substantial increase in volume, runout distance, and disruptive energy. The prediction of landslide runout and its effect is essential in landslide risk assessment, especially in populated mountainous are...