Fondamenti Di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo

Fondamenti Di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo
Author: George Butterworth
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135887233

Lo scopo della psicologia dello sviluppo è descrivere e spiegare i cambiamenti nel comportamento e nelle attività psicologiche dal periodo prenatale fino alla vecchiaia. Il volume affronta in modo approfondito i principali temi della psicologia dello sviluppo dal periodo prenatale fino alla vecchiaia, esaminandone sia gli aspetti biologici che quelli culturali. Nel testo sono presentate le più importanti teorie dello sviluppo in una prospettiva storica e, in particolare, quelle di Piaget, Vygotskij e Bowlby, che permettono di comprendere gli orientamenti della ricerca contemporanea e forniscono una sintesi moderna rispetto alle radicali posizioni innatiste e ambientaliste. Il testo presenta inoltre recenti ipotesi, sostenute da evidenze sperimentali, che hanno portato a parziali revisioni di queste teorie. Il volume fornisce in tal modo una visione complessiva e aggiornata delle questioni teoriche e metodologiche più rilevanti della psicologia dello sviluppo ed è consigliato per studenti universitari, insegnanti, operatori del settore, genitori e per tutti coloro che sono interessati a questa disciplina. l curatore di questa edizione ha inoltre apportato integrazioni e adattamenti specifici per il pubblico italiano. A tal fine, sono state anche illustrate recenti ricerche italiane rilevanti per i temi trattati nel testo.

Innovative Apprenticeships

Innovative Apprenticeships
Author: Felix Rauner
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3643103670

The transition from school to vocational education is of different quality and performance in the diverse national VET systems and heavily determined by the different structures of governance in the national education and VET systems. In September 2009, the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship (INAP) hosted its third international conference in Turin bringing together leading researchers in the area of international TVET research. This book summarises all topics discussed within the frame of the Turin conference and overviews current research and analysis in the following fields: Managing successful transitions from school to work * Building vocational identity * Competence evaluation and development in VET * Levels of governance and the role of stakeholders in apprenticeships

Identity Around the World

Identity Around the World
Author: Seth J. Schwartz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118614968

Examine the structure and context of identity development in a number of different countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy, China, and Japan. While some identity development proceeds in much the same way across national contexts, this issue suggests that there are important nuances in the ways in which identity unfolds in each country. Macrocultural forces, such as permissiveness in Sweden, collective guilt in Germany, and filial piety in China, direct the identity development process in important ways. Expectations regarding obligations and ties to family also direct the identity development process differently in many of the countries included in this volume—such as extended co-residence with parents in Italy, lifelong obligations to follow parents' wishes in China, and democratic independence in Sweden. The various countries are compared and contrasted against the United States, where much of the early identity research was conducted. The volume also reviews specific identity challenges facing immigrant and ethnic-minority individuals in countries that receive large numbers of immigrants—Germany, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy—and suggests many future directions for identity research in various parts of the world. This is the 138th volume in this series. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in child and adolescent development. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts on that topic.

The Importance of Listening to Children and Adolescents

The Importance of Listening to Children and Adolescents
Author: Silvana Calaprice
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 152752440X

This volume highlights the importance of teaching adults to listen to children and adolescents, illustrating the principles and contexts that define young people’s tangible and intangible rights and ideals. It reflects on the difficulties that impede the implementation of children and adolescents’ right to be listened to, in line with guidelines linked to national and international policies regarding children and adolescents. The book provides examples of how educational research can be used as a resource for the development of educational processes and of educational systems that put listening and participation at the heart of educational culture, as instruments of intervention and a possible component of social transformation.

Sense of Origins

Sense of Origins
Author: Rosemary Serra
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438479204

In Sense of Origins, Rosemary Serra explores the lives of a significant group of self-identified young Italian Americans residing in New York City and its surrounding areas. The book presents and examines the results of a survey she conducted of their values, family relationships, prejudices and stereotypes, affiliations, attitudes and behaviors, and future perspectives of Italian American culture. The core of the study focuses on self-identification with Italian cultural heritage and analyzes it according to five aspects—physical, personality, cultural, psychological, and emotional/affective. The data provides insights into today's young Italian Americans and the ways their perception of reality in everyday interactions is affected by their heritage, while shedding light on the value and symbolic references that come with an Italian heritage. Through her rendering of relevant facets that emerge from the study, Serra constructs interpretative models useful for outlining the physiognomy and characterization of second, third, fourth, and fifth generations of Italian Americans. In the current climate, questions of ethnicity and migrant identity around the world make Sense of Origins useful not only to the Italian American community but also to the descendants of the innumerable present-day migrants who find themselves living in countries different from those of their ancestors. The book will resonate in future explorations of ethnic identity in the United States.

Understanding Intellectual Disability

Understanding Intellectual Disability
Author: Margherita Orsolini
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-12-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000780538

Understanding Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Professionals and Parents supports professionals and parents in understanding critical concepts, correct assessment procedures, delicate and science-infused communication practices and treatment methods concerning children with intellectual disabilities. From a professional perspective, this book relies on developmental neuropsychology and psychiatry to describe relevant measures and qualitative observations when making a diagnosis and explores the importance of involving parents in the reconstruction of a child’s developmental history. From a parent’s perspective, the book shows how enriched environments can empower children’s learning processes, and how working with patients, families, and organizations providing care and treatment services can be effectively integrated with attachment theory. Throughout seven chapters, the book offers an exploration of diagnostic procedures, new insights on the concept of intelligence and the role of communication and secure attachment in the mind’s construction. With expertise from noteworthy scholars in the field, the reader is given an overview of in-depth assessment and intervention practices illustrated by several case studies and examples, as well as a lifespan perspective from a Human Rights Model of disability. Understanding Intellectual Disability is an accessible guide offering an up-to-date vision of intellectual disability and is essential for psychologists, health care professionals, special educators, students in clinical psychology, and parents. Things are connected through invisible bonds: you cannot pluck a flower without unsettling a star. Galileo Galilei

Culture and Political Psychology

Culture and Political Psychology
Author: Thalia Magioglou
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1623963699

This book is perhaps the first systematic treatment of politics from the perspective of cultural psychology. Politics is a complex that psychology usually fails to understand— as it assumes a position in society that attempts to be free of politics itself. Politics is associated both with an everyday practice, and the dynamics of globalization; with the way group conflicts, ideologies, social representations and identities, are lived and co-constructed by social actors. The authors of the book address these issues through their research grounded in different parts of the world, on democracy and political order, the social representation of power, gender studies, the use of metaphors and symbolic power in political discourse, social identities and methodological questions. The book will be used by social and political psychologists but is also of interest to the other social sciences: political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, educationalists, and it is at a level where sophisticated lay public would be able to appreciate its coverage. Its use in upperlevel college teaching is possible, and expected at graduate/postgraduate levels.

Group dynamics in the multiethnic school

Group dynamics in the multiethnic school
Author: Debora Mugnaini
Publisher: Youcanprint
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

This paper focuses on group dynamics in the multiethnic school and their implications for students' social-emotional integration and development. The study examines the history of schooling in Italy, with particular attention to the transition towards a multi-ethnic school. In addition, the role of intelligence tests in school and the criticisms associated with them are analysed. Another important area of investigation concerns the phenomenon of migration in Italy and its history, as well as the effects of migration on individuals and society. In particular, it examines the integration process of migrants in the Italian school and the challenges they can face in their psycho-social adaptation. The development of the social self and the identity of the migrant are further explored, using the theory of self discrepancy and the theory of social perception. The role of categorization and stereotypes in social perception and in the formation of social patterns is also analysed. The second part of the study focuses on group dynamics, including conformity, obedience and social identity. It examines the basic principles of Social Identity theory (Tajfel, 1979) and social influence both by the majority and by the minority. Finally, interactions in groups are explored, with a focus on prejudice and its manifestations, including those at a young age. The goal is to understand group dynamics in the multi-ethnic school in order to promote integration and create an inclusive environment for all students. Through an in-depth analysis of current theories and research in the field of social psychology, this thesis provides a comprehensive overview of group dynamics in the multiethnic school and offers suggestions for interventions and strategies aimed at fostering student integration and well-being.

The Routledge History of Italian Americans

The Routledge History of Italian Americans
Author: William Connell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 915
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135046700

The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination, anarchism, Fascism, World War II patriotism, assimilation, gender identity and popular culture. This landmark volume offers a clear and accessible overview of work in the growing academic field of Italian American Studies. Rich illustrations bring the story to life, drawing out the aspects of Italian American history and culture that make this ethnic group essential to the American experience.

Cultural Dynamics

Cultural Dynamics
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 850
Release: 1991
Genre: Culture
ISBN:

An international journal for the study of processes and temporality of culture.