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Salute e cultura alimentare globalizzata

2021

Meeting on issues related to nutrition and its social, economic, health and political implications. Meeting aimed at students and young graduates, who are now faced with the prospect of concluding their professional training and entering the world of work. Significant contribution to the quality of professional training in the field of nutrition

From Embodied to Disembodied Practices of Care: Discussing Welfare State Transformation in Finland

2013

From Embodied to Disembodied Professionalism? Discussing the Implications of Medico-Managerial Management in Welfare Service Work

2013

Welfare service work is traditionally understood to comprise embodied, situational and social practices of care that are central to a worker’s professional self-image. Over the past few decades, public management reforms have called for reassessment of welfare service workers’ professional accountability through practices of medico-managerial service management. These practices promote the production of transparency and accountability in welfare services work through checking-based trust and disembodied professional practices. This article argues that the changes in the nature of trust toward welfare service professionals have implications for care work cultures and workers’ professional ag…

Social Robots and Human Touch in Care : The Perceived Usefulness of Robot Assistance Among Healthcare Professionals

2019

Touching in care work is inevitable, particularly in cases where clients depend on nurses for many activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing, lifting and assisting. When new technologies are involved in nurse–client relationships, the significance of human touch needs special attention. Stressing the importance of practitioners’ opinions on the usage of robots in care environments, we analyze care workers’ attitudes toward robot assistance in the care of older people and reflect on their ideas of the embodied relationship that caregivers and care receivers have with technology. To examine nurses’ attitudes toward care robots, we use survey data on professional care workers (n = …

Why in-service teachers left their employment and pursued master's studies at a Finnish university

2016

This study investigates why in-service teachers left their jobs and went to a Finnish University to study on an International Master’s Programme in Education. The purpose of this research is to enrich the studies in the field of teachers’ professional development and the field of international students’ study. Besides that, it aims to better understand the complicated reasons that teachers leave their jobs and choose a full-time degree to study. The researcher used an online survey to collect data, in which the participants who are in the researched master degree programme. Following the survey, thematic analysis was used during the initial data processing. The notion of “push and pull” was…

Le competenze professionali dell'insegnante di sostegno

2023

The fundamental skills that teachers specializing in inclusive education should possess for classes where there are pupils with proven physical or mental disabilities are described for the purposes of school inclusion. The skills were selected among those indicated by the MIUR decree of 30 September 2011, those recommended by the European Agency for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education and those identified by researchers at the University of Palermo. Following the experiences gained during six editions of the specialization courses for support and through continuous discussions with the course directors, the skills necessary to carry out the job of support teacher in primary sc…

Più maestri tra i banchi di scuola primaria

2022

Nei Paesi membri dell’OECD, i maestri di scuola primaria rappresentano una minoranza del corpo docente, per la bassa remunerazione, lo scarso prestigio sociale e lo stereotipo di una professione ritenuta femminile. Nella prima parte di questo contributo, si ricostruiscono le ragioni con cui si spiega la mancanza degli insegnanti maschi nella scuola primaria e si presentano i rimedi che alcuni Paesi hanno tentato di applicare per ridurre la dimensione di questo problema. Nella seconda parte, si presentano i risultati di un’indagine svolta nel 2021 sulla professione di maestro percepita da 71 studenti maschi frequentanti il corso di studi in Scienze della Formazione Primaria presso l’Universi…

La rilevanza medico-legale dei biofilms batterici nelle infezioni nosocomiali

2007

O Brasil na rota das migrações internacionais qualificadas espanholas no século XXI

2018

In order to understand recent migration, it is crucial to analyze the migratory modalities such as skilled international migration to Brazil, especially considering the ongoing transnational economic processes and their effects on the corresponding societies. Therefore, this article seeks to understand how the migratory dynamics of highly skilled Spanish professionals to the country are established taking into account the theoretical contribution of the circulation of brains and the category of knowledge workers. For this purpose, information from Brazilian?s Ministry of Labor is used on labor authorizations, financial contributions and insertion in the formal market in Spain; as well as da…

Initial VET in Spain

2018

lnitial vocational education in Spain was created within the formal education system in 1970. During the reform process, in 1990, it has been acquired modern architecture. During the period from 1990 to 2002, a series of reforms took place in the country, the most important of which was the adoption in 2002 of the national law on education, the main provisions of which were agreed upon with all stakeholders - the main political parties, social agents, employers and trade unions. The law introduced the following key features of the vocational education system in Spain: a mandatory curriculum module for all students of vocational s implemented directly at the workplace; the same requirements …