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Journal articles on the topic "Authors, Italian – 21st century – Interviews"
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Dmitrieva, Marina. "Italian Renaissance Courts and Its Research in Western Historiography of the 21st Century." ISTORIYA 14, no. 3 (125) (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840025174-0.
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The article is devoted to the study of Italian Renaissance Сourts in Western (mainly Italian) historiography of the 21st century. The authors identify the directions and problems of research, comparing the problems of scientific works were written before the appearance of Italian Court History with works that were appeared at different stages of its development: in the initial period, in the first and second decades of the 21st century (the main emphasis is made on the study of the works of the 21st century). The article provides an overview of the main problems of the history of Italian courts in the works devoted to the influential Italian states of the Renaissance: the Duchy of Milan, the Papal State, the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence, highlights the issues existing in this area in relation to other Italian states (in particular, Siena and Genoa). The authors explore the works devoted to the problems of the relationship between the Italian and European courts of the Renaissance and other topical issues of modern research.
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Vysochina, Ekaterina S. "STUDY OF ITALIAN-LIBYAN RELATIONS IN RUSSIAN SCIENCE LITERATURE FROM THE LATE 20TH TO THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. Series Political Sciences. History. International Relations, no. 1 (2021): 116–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2021-1-116-125.
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The main purpose of the article is to review the most complete and holistic scientific works of Russian authors which are devoted to the study of Italian-Libyan relations. To carry out the research a broad historiographic base on the topic was involved, the author turned to both the “classic” works of Soviet scientists, and to the most modern scientific figures. One of the main tasks in the study of the topic is to identify the historiographic issues associated with the lack of modern Russian scientific literature on the referred theme. The article analyzes the specific features of the literature published from the end of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st century in Russia, highlighting the issue of interaction between two countries in different spheres of international relations. The methodological basis of the work is the issue-chronological and complex analysis of the used literature, the establishment of the cause-effect relationships and patterns in the Russian authors approaches to their research, as well as their interpretation for the current stage of development of relations between the two countries. During research it was revealed that most of the scientific works of our compatriots are devoted to a certain, rather narrow, range of issues: the Italian–Turkish war of 1911–1912, cooperation between Libya and Italy in the control of illegal migration from Africa to Europe, Italian military intervention in the civil war in Libya 2011. At the same time, not many Russian authors cover and analyze the Italian-Libyan cooperation in the politi- cal, cultural, social, and economic fields during the long-term period of Colonel Gaddafi’s rule in Libya. In this regard, the author of the article notes that there is a great amount of historical data: the diplomatic documents, resolutions, offi- cial letters of top public executives, treaties and agreements between the coun- tries, including documents of international organizations that are not studied at present sufficiently. The article identifies the most perspective areas for further research of Italian-Libyan relations, what emphasizes the importance and relevance of the chosen topic. The author comes to a conclusion that at the moment it seems quite difficult to find a well-founded, comprehensive scientific literature designed to determine the nature and options for the development of relations between Libya and Italy at the modern stage.
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Kushnir, Iryna. "MODELING OF THE ARTISTIC WORLD OF CHILDHOOD IN MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURE ABOUT CHILDREN." Scientific Journal of Polonia University 34, no. 3 (April 3, 2019): 56–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.23856/3406.
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The article investigates the problem of modeling the childhood world in novels by N. Ammaniti "I am not afraid", "You and me", "As God commanded", A. d'Avenia "White, like milk, red, like blood", a history by A. Nanetti "My grandfather was a cherry tree" when the first contact between a child / teenager and the world of adults appears. Identified microdominants for the world of children in these authors: existential measurement of home and family (N. Ammaniti, A. Nanetti), father-son relations (N. Ammaniti), categorical coloring of the childhood world and seeking oneself (A. d'Avenia), unbreakable unity childhood - adulthood - old age (A. Nanetti). The dysharmony of the world manifests itself in the motives of violence, suffering, uncertainty of the child, which makes hero actively seek his place in society and his identity. The subjective narrative "I" of the child reflects the catastrophic attitude of the 21st century, seeks salvation in adults, but finds the strength to resist evil in the world only in its pure soul. It was found: the destruction of the ordered childhood world with positive images of home, father and mother is the reality of the 21st century.
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KROPINOVA, Elena G., Aleksei Yu ANOKHIN, and Tatiana K. PRIMAK. "ECOTOURISM - A 21ST CENTURY NECESSITY OR RESPONDING TO CONSUMER DEMAND?" GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites 46, no. 1 (March 31, 2023): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.30892/gtg.46104-998.
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This article identifies ecological tourism as a type of tourism that is most fully in line with the principles of sustainable development being a global ecological and economic concept and corresponding to "slow tourism", as a form of behavior alternative to mainstream tourism. Particular attention is paid to the study of ecological tourism in protected natural areas in the forms as close as possible to "green" tourism. The scientific novelty of the work is aimed at studying the essential features and the following trends in the development of ecological tourism as a special type of recreational activity. The authors conducted a sociological study using questionnaires and focus group interviews. Tour guides providing services in a specially protected natural area were selected as the target sample. The study was carried out in the Curonian Spit National Park – a UNESCO site. The authors have studied and analyzed the individual motives and desires of tourists when visiting specially protected natural areas. The results of the study reveal the significance of various types of resources for ecological tourism; the significance of the historical and cultural potential of the territory; the role of natural resources in creating a tourist product aimed at environmental education and awareness; technologies for excursion and educational activities with an ecocentric orientation. The authors demonstrate and propose possibilities and techniques for extrapolation of the principles of "slow tourism", including ones for visiting natural areas. The role of guides as conductors of "slow tourism" is indicated.
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Prus, Robert. "Engaging Love, Divinity, and Philosophy: Pragmatism, Personification, and Autoethnographic Motifs in the Humanist Poetics of Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri, and Giovanni Boccaccio." Qualitative Sociology Review 10, no. 3 (July 31, 2014): 6–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.10.3.01.
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Although the works of three early Italian Renaissance poets, Brunetto Latini (1220-1294), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), may seem far removed from the social science ventures of the 21st century, these three Italian authors provide some exceptionally valuable materials for scholars interested in the study of human knowing and acting. As central participants in the 13th-14th century “humanist movement” (in which classical Greek and Latin scholarship were given priority in matters of intellectual development), Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri, and Giovanni Boccaccio helped sustain an analytic focus on human lived experience. Most of the materials addressed here are extensively fictionalized, but our interests are in the sociological insights that these authors achieve, both in their accounts of the characters and interchanges portrayed in their texts and in their modes of presentation as authors. Although lacking the more comprehensive aspects of Chicago-style symbolic interactionist (Mead 1934; Blumer 1969) theory and research, these early Renaissance texts are remarkably self-reflective in composition. Thus, these statements provide us with valuable insights into the life-worlds of (a) those of whom the authors speak, (b) those to whom the authors address their works, and (c) the authors themselves as people involved in generating aspects of popular culture through their poetic endeavors. More specifically, these writers enable us to appreciate aspects of pragmatist emphases on human knowing and acting through their attentiveness to people’s perspectives, speech, deliberation, action, and interaction. In addressing affective relationships, introducing generic standpoints, and considering morality as community matters, these materials offer contemporary scholars in the social sciences some particularly instructive transhistorical and transcultural comparative and conceptual reference points. Inspired by the remarkable contributions of the three 13th-14th century Italian poets and some 12th- 13th century French predecessors, the Epilogue direct specific attention to the ways in which authors might engage poetic productions as “producers” and “analysts” of fictionalized entertainment.
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Contreras-Espinosa, Ruth S., and Jose Luis Eguia-Gomez. "Game Jams as Valuable Tools for the Development of 21st-Century Skills." Sustainability 14, no. 4 (February 16, 2022): 2246. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14042246.
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The concept of 21st-century skills refers to the knowledge, skills, and emotions that are critical to successfully navigating today’s world. Game jams can act as spaces to develop these skills and thus boost cooperative learning, problem-based learning, or co-creation. Additionally, game jams offer opportunities to improve collaboration and creativity skills, among others. This paper summarizes three years of activities designing and studying game jams to develop 21st-century skills, focused on Mexican students aged 12–16 years old. Data were compiled through direct observation, open-ended questionnaires, and interviews and were subject to thematic analysis in order to construct new knowledge on a previously underexplored topic. The results suggest that game jams are valuable tools to develop 21st-century skills, and, although the outcomes of skill evaluation may vary and may be difficult to verify, the participants reported increased skills, such as creativity or collaboration. Finally, this paper provides recommendations based on the research and practice conducted by the authors on how to use game jams to develop 21st-century skills and different ways to organize game jams, along with the resources needed.
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Fischer, Louise Harder, and Richard Baskerville. "Revising the Socio-Technical Perspective for the 21st Century." Journal of Database Management 31, no. 4 (October 2020): 69–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jdm.2020100104.
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A predominant understanding in information systems research (ISR) is that technology has institutionalizing, routinizing, and socializing effects in its interaction with users in the human enterprise. Subscribing to these effects from an organizational point of view no longer provides a full understanding of the more complex dynamics in the 21st century workplace inhabited by a vast amount of different technologies with different purposes. Through a critical realist analysis, focusing on patterns in socio-technical structures and more specific actions and outcomes afforded by the recent and forceful adoption of unified communication and collaboration platforms (UCC), the authors see a new, powerful socio-technical mechanism of individualization that is profoundly changing these socio-technical dynamics. Through 18 interviews with knowledge professionals, the study finds that the mechanisms of individualization reduce the influence of the organization as an institutionalizing and socializing socio-technical system. As an example, the power of individualization creates new parallel structures of small networks of close colleagues. Thus, this research sees new structural patterns and dynamics emerging, forming a much more complex, yet self-organizing socio-technical system. The authors suggest expanding the socio-technical understanding of the present techno-organizational reality by taking into account the socio-technical mechanisms that produce certain outcomes. By understanding the fundamental mechanisms at work, they provide those with a fuller understanding of how these mechanisms can enable, while simultaneously crippling, each other. This fuller understanding also aids the pursuit of providing workplaces that achieve both humanistic and economic objectives.
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Rółkowska, Maria. "Polskie głosy we włoskim eterze. Audycje polskojęzyczne w Radiu RAI w latach 1948–2007." Media Biznes Kultura, no. 1 (10) (2021): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25442554.mbk.21.004.13970.
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Polish voices in the Italian ether. Polish language broadcasts on Radio RAI in the years 1948–2007 The article describes the history of the activity, the program and authors of programs in Polish broadcasted by Italian radio from the 1940s to the first decade of this century. These programs were directed to Poles living in the Apennine Peninsula, in their own homeland and in other countries, and at present a little knowledge about them is available from the preserved partial archival resources, the records in Italian Polonica and the interviews with some of their authors. Polish-language broadcasts on Radio RAI constitute an important part of Polonia and Polish-language media around the world.
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Storch, Sharon L., and Anna V. Ortiz Juarez-Paz. "The role of mobile devices in 21st-century family communication." Mobile Media & Communication 7, no. 2 (December 24, 2018): 248–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050157918811369.
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Use of media devices has evolved over the past 10–15 years and the resulting effects on family communication are of interest for this study. Through 26 semi-structured interviews, the authors sought to understand the role mobile devices play in family communication. Qualitative grounded theory analysis was used to find themes and interpret results (Creswell, 2013). One overarching paradoxical theme emerged from these data, family connect–family disconnect. In family connect, categories of across distance, reassurances, and boundaries are shared. Within family disconnect, distractions, misunderstandings, and negative emotional responses are conveyed. Future research avenues recommended are decision making related to mobile devices based on values and morals, in-depth social media and app usage, emoji emotional responses, individuals under 18 and between 18 and 30 years old, and a network analysis of one extended family.
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Y., Abbas,, and Kabir, J. "Unveiling Unspoken: Exploring Queer Dynamics In The 21st Century Hausa Prose Literature." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 3, no. 01 (February 15, 2024): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2024.v03i01.009.
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This research meticulously examines queer elements within a carefully selected Hausa novel. The paper aims to identify queerness in selected Hausa novels and to unravel the intentions of authors. As Hausa literature becomes a space for cultural exploration, this article contributes to the discourse on queer representations. Employing queer theory, the study combines systematic textual analysis and insightful author interviews to explore the portrayal of queer elements within the specific subset of Hausa prose. Findings from this exploration reveal deliberate navigation by Hausa novelists through societal norms, illustrating a subtle yet impactful inclusion of queer elements. For instance, the literature often offers nuanced perspectives on identity, love, and societal expectations, subtly challenging prevailing norms. This nuanced incorporation not only stimulates readers' emotions but also potentially enhances the marketability of these novels. Many interviewed authors express scepticism about promoting non-normative sexual orientations, drawing attention to the cautious dance between cultural authenticities and evolving societal expectations. This scepticism often stems from concerns about the reception of such elements within the Hausa literary landscape. However, these reservations also underline a recognition that unconventional experiences find resonance within a limited yet significant portion of Hausa society.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Authors, Italian – 21st century – Interviews"
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Oprava, David E. "Once America : 50 expats, 50 interviews, 50 poems." Thesis, Swansea University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678534.
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Comberiati, Daniele. "Ecrire dans la langue de l'autre: la littérature des immigrés en Italie, 1989-2007." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210477.
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Dans ce travail on essaye de donner une définition et une historicisation de ce qu’on appelle « littérature italienne de la migration ». Il y a tout de suite une distinction à faire entre les écrivains étrangers qui écrivaient en italien avant le grand flux migratoire des années ’80 et ceux qui sont issus de cette vague, dont la thèse s’occupe dans une manière plus spécifique (années 1989-2007). Les changements sociaux et culturels que les nouveaux immigrés ont apporté, ont transformé l’Italie de pays d’émigration en pays d’immigration. Au niveau littéraire ces écrivains ont d’abord utilisé un langage standard, pour se faire comprendre du public et pour témoigner les difficultés du voyage migratoire et de l’intégration ;les dernières œuvres, pourtant, analysées dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, ont été écrites par des écrivains qui manipulent plus facilement la langue italienne, utilisant un plurilinguisme témoin d’un lien très stricte entre oralité et écriture, et entre langue d’origine et langue d’accueil. Enfin, les oeuvres des écrivains italophones postcoloniaux et de ceux issus de la deuxième génération peuvent rapporter la littérature italienne contemporaine avec des autres situation (France, Allemagne, Angleterre, Etats Unis) qui semblent très similaires.ENGLISH: On this work we want to give a definition about “Italian Migrant Literature”. There is a difference between writers came in Italy before or after the migration’s fluxes on the 80’s. With this social and cultural changes, Italy became immigration country. First, migrant writers used a standard language, to have a big public and to talk about migration. Last works are more interesting because they use a plurilingualism that can show the relationship between oral and write. Finally, Postcolonial Italian writers and Second Generation writers make a connection with the literary situation in the other countries (France, Germany, Britain, United States).
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Books on the topic "Authors, Italian – 21st century – Interviews"
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Casalini, Simone. Intervista al Novecento. Rovereto (TN) [i.e. Trento, Italy]: Egon, 2010.
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Lussu, Joyce. Joyce L.: Una vita contro : diciannove conversazioni incise su nastro. Milano: Baldini & Castoldi, 1996.
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Ballestra, Silvia. Joyce L.: Una vita contro : diciannove conversazioni incise su nastro. Milano: Baldini & Castoldi, 1996.
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Leuzzi, Tony. Passwords primeval: 20 American poets in their own words : interviews. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2012.
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Ferrante, Elena. Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Europa Editions, 2017.
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Ferrante, Elena. La frantumaglia: Una viaje por la escritura. Lumen, 2017.
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Ferrante, Elena. Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Europa Editions, Incorporated, 2016.
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Ferrante, Elena. Frantumaglia: A writer's journey. 2016.
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Ferrante, Elena. La frantumaglia: Un viatge al cor de l'escriptura. La Campana, 2022.
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Ferrante, Elena. Bir Yazarin Yolculugu; Frantumaglia. Everest Yayinlari, 2018.
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Haroutyunian, Sona. "Cultural Translation and the Rediscovery of Identity." In Diaspore. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-396-0/025.
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This paper aims to underline how hidden selves rediscover their identity when they are translating or are being translated into the language of their ethnic origin. It compares two specific instances in which translations have been the primary means through which two famous Italian women writers, both of whom received thoroughly Italian formal educations and considered themselves thoroughly Italian, or “thoroughly translated women into Italian” to recall Rushdie, rediscovered their Armenian identity. The authors are the late 19th and early 29th century Italian-Armenian poetess Vittoria Aganoor and the late 20th and early 21st century novelist Antonia Arslan.
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Chan, Samuel Kin Fung, Mimi Mei Wa Chan, Apple Hiu Ching Lam, and Dickson K. W. Chiu. "Parents' View of Graphic Novels in Hong Kong Under the 21st Century Mobile Digital Environment." In Advances in Library and Information Science, 175–201. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8671-9.ch008.
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This study reviews the current parents' perspectives and habits of using graphic novels, including electronic equipment, in Hong Kong to support children's reading and learning. Parents were invited to participate in semi-structured group interviews based on our five research questions. The authors employ a thematic analysis approach to analyze the data and determine the similarities and differences between the literature review and the current mobile digital environment. The findings indicated that respondents were not keen on using graphic novels to support their children's reading and learning. The two main reasons were inadequate understanding or bias on graphic novels and the wide availability of online digital materials for reading and learning support. Scant studies focus on graphic novels in parent-child reading from parents' perspectives, especially in the Asian context, though graphic novels are becoming a worldwide trend. Parents' opinions about this issue are invaluable for educators and librarians in curriculum design and collections development.
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Rinaldi, Alberto, and Giulia Tagliazucchi. "Women as an (Un)Tapped Resource for Italy's Corporate Boards, 1983-2017." In Transformative Roles of Women in Public and Private Sectors, 90–108. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-3208-5.ch006.
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Corporate boards have been male bastions until very recently, and women have been very few and difficult to track. In Italy, this has given rise to growing debates that have eventually led to the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for listed and state-participated (L&SP) firms under public control in 2011. In this chapter, the authors address this topic by investigating the presence of women among the directors of the top 250 Italian joint-stock companies from 1983 to 2017. In 1983, women were still nearly absent from Italian corporate boards. Their number showed a sizeable increase only in the 21st century, especially after the introduction of mandatory gender quotas. Quotas not only increased female presence on boards of L&SP firms, but also triggered an indirect “contagion effect”, that is, a higher proportion of women on boards of non-L&SP firms, even if the latter were not required to comply with this regulation. The massive increase in seats held by women led to a professionalization of female directors in Italy, even though women are still largely excluded from top executive positions.
Conference papers on the topic "Authors, Italian – 21st century – Interviews"
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PASSINATO, Cristiana de Barcellos, Victória Beatriz dos Santos DE OLIVEIRA, and Luciana Pereira DE ALMEIDA. "“SIX THINKING CARDS”: A GAME FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING ARGUMENTATIVE SKILLS IN THE CHEMISTRY CLASSROOM." In SOUTHERN BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY 2021 INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE. DR. D. SCIENTIFIC CONSULTING, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.48141/sbjchem.21scon.29_abstract_almeida.pdf.
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Considering the increasing need to develop the argumentation and communication skills of the students, teaching practice has to consider how to do this concerning individual needs and preferences. Meaningful Learning proposes that education should consider the already acquired knowledge of the students in the process of building new learning. Therefore, when applied to the learning process, argumentation is a way to express acquired knowledge to other participants of this process. The Six Thinking Cards game permits students to explore their thinking in focused stages that are represented by the colors proposed in the Six Thinking Hats strategy by Edward De Bono, thus creating an environment where students have time and space to study and think about scientific concepts in a throughway. It is expected that the game also helps students develop soft skills that are considered essential for 21st century learning, such as empathy, communication, problem-solving, and teamwork. The game also adds Libras (Brazilian Sign Language) and Braille (tactile writing system) elements for accessibility purposes towards the objective of building an inclusive classroom. This game should be able to be applied in the chemistry classroom once Covid-19 hard restrictions and quarantine are over and in-person studies are permitted, allowing the authors to do qualitative and quantitative research of this proposal’s reach and relevance for beyond of the projection of this proposal. Interviews with both teachers and students are to understand better how students’ metacognitive skills improve as they engage in cooperative learning and express their ideas.
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Pillay, Nischolan, and Yashaen Luckan. "The Practicing Academic: Insights of South African Architectural Education." In 2019 ACSA Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2019.22.
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Architectural education, in the past had a grounding in a strict apprentice or pupillage method of training architects. The apprentice was someone who worked or trained under a master that transferred skill through a “hands on” approach. Architecture was regarded as one of the arts and there was no formal training to qualify one as an architect. It was through the acclaimed Vitruvius that the architectural profession was born. Vitruvius had published “Ten Books on Architecture” that led to an attempt to summarize professional knowledge of architecture and in doing so became the first recognizable architect. The architectural profession spread throughout Europe in the mid-16th century and the builder and architect became two distinct characters. Although architecture had become a profession, it wasn’t up until the late 17th century that architecture became an academic pursuit through an institutionalized educational system known as École des Beaux Arts, however the pursuit of a strict academic scholar was not the focus. At the beginning of the 1800’s, The University of Berlin in Germany forged the fundamental research and scholarly pursuit. Architecture, like the professions of medicine, law etc. became a system of academic pursuit where professors concentrated deeply on academics first and professional work second. It is through the lens of history we can decipher how architecture became an academic discipline almost de-voiding it of its vocational nature. In its current standing, various universities place a high emphasis on research output from their academic staff. Presently, architecture schools in South Africa recruit lecturers on their academic profiles, rather than their vocational experience. The approach of which has devalued the input of industry into education. It has been noted that there has been an increase in an academic pursuit rather than a professional one for the lecturers that teach architecture. This research explores the views of academics on architectural education, teaching methods and the importance of practice at South African universities. The authors of this research provide an auto-ethnographic insight into their invaluable experience of being academics at two large Universities in South Africa and concurrently run successful practices. The research makes use of a mixed method approach of secondary data from literature and semi-structured interviews posed to academics. Initial findings reveal that academics are pushing the industry to play a part in the education of architects; however, the extent must be determined. If industry plays a role in the education of architects, what factors are considered and how does this inter-twine with the academic nature of training? What strategies are academics employing to make sure students are vocationally well trained and academically capable? Another important question to ask is what qualities make an academic architect in the 21st century?
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De Cristofaro, Sarah, Luca Rizzi, Dario Cardone, Lisa Berti, and Ubaldo Spina. "Smart Relax Armchair - a solution for active and safe ageing at home." In 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024). AHFE International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004896.
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The fact that people are living longer is a social and economic challenge for developed countries in the 21st century. An ageing society leads to an increase in the number of people living with multiple chronic conditions, facing the loss of independence and autonomy in daily activities and suffering social isolation caused by the pandemic or by the necessity of long-term care at home. The increasing incidence of sedentarism as well as prolonged immobility caused by long-stay settings (care home) is also a growing health concern. Indeed, spending too much time sitting daily could increase the incidence of postural changes and pressure ulcer formation, further reducing the physical, social, and emotional well-being of older adults.These problems are countable as significant contributors among many threats to elderly health and well-being leading to morbidity, disability, and premature death. In this view, Ambient Assisted Living solutions to monitor house routines of elderly patients and offer simple and healthy exercises daily are essential.This paper reports the results of the research activity conducted by the authors in collaboration with a well-known Italian sofa and armchair producer and health experts to develop an innovative solution for promoting active and safe ageing at home using a Smart Relax Armchair. The goal of the study was to introduce new smart functions to a Relax Armchair to help maintain a correct posture as well as to reduce the formation of bedsores by inducing frequent repositioning.To reach the goal, firstly the authors conducted a benchmarking analysis to identify the smart functions dedicated to health and wellbeing purposes already available on the market in the home furniture sector. A user-centred design methodology has been implemented to identify the Smart Relax Armchair functionalities, by involving industry experts, researchers in active ageing, biomedical engineers, and potential users since the early design stage. A dedicated design thinking tool has been used for users’ needs identification and translation into metrics (i.e. technical features). The Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method and tool have been used to rank such metrics and drive the design of the final product to meet users’ needs at best.3D virtual manikins, technical standards, ergonomic manuals, and the know-how of biomedical engineers and experts in Functional Recovery and Rehabilitation have been used to identify postural misbehaviour in daily life and potential intervention areas on a commercial Relax Armchair. Several active and passive solutions have been identified and tested to help maintain the correct posture and reduce the formation of bedsores. A sensorised mat has been used to assess changes in pressure distribution with respect to different layers of cushioning materials and to help select the specific pressure relief mattresses for bedsore prevention to be integrated into the final design.At the same time, an innovative protocol (anti-decubitus function) has been developed and implemented via ARDUINO to automatically induce a repositioning of the Smart Relax Armchair and thus changing the pressure distribution on the body, if the APP detects prolonged sitting.The protocol of the anti-decubitus function has been validated on a preliminary prototype thanks to a sensorised mat which demonstrated the effectiveness on pressure distribution variation, thus allowing the patenting of the idea.In order to promote active ageing at home, a set of simple rehabilitation exercises to be performed with the help of the Smart Relax Armchair has been designed and implemented in the APP specifically developed to control the product via a Smartphone or a vocal assistant.A final prototype including all the selected and developed solutions has been produced and a clinical trial will be conducted in the next months for the final validation of the product.The solutions developed and implemented on the Smart Relax Armchair have the potential to be applied to any model of Armchair or Sofa by the producer, thus changing the conventional paradigm of expensive products for active ageing only available for residential care facilities which cannot be afforded by those willing to age in place.