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El desarrollo de la organización consciente en equipos: un clima de participación no basta, los equipos necesitan sentir seguridad para realizar prop…
2020
Mindful organizing (also known as collective mindfulness) is a collective capability that allows teams to anticipate and swiftly recover from unexpected events. This collective capability is especially relevant in high-risk environments where reliability in performance is of utmost importance. In this paper, we build on current mindful organizing theory by showing how two front-line communication and participatory conditions (perceived safety for upward dissent and climate for employee engagement) interact to predict mindful organizing. We shed light on the controversy around mindful organizing’s effect on team’s subjective experience at work by showing that it leads to greater …
Place-based attributes and spatial expenditure behavior in tourism
2017
In recent discussions on local sustainable development, notions like “local for local” and “home bias” have often played a role. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether preferences for specific place-based attributes might constrain or support tourism participation and tourism destination choice of distinct socioeconomic groups of visitors. To test this proposition, a large data set from the Italian Households Budget Survey for the period 1997–2007 has been used and, by means of the double-hurdle model, tourism participation and expenditure are modeled over the life-cycle of tourists. These data are next merged with location-specific attributes including natural amenities and in…
Il Salvador si avvia a pianificare città e territori: un’esperienza pilota partecipativa a Santa Marta, a partire da un lungo lavoro psicologico
2015
Gli autori descrivono un caso di cooperazione allo sviluppo iniziato nel 2008 come intervento di Psicologi nel mondo, continuato anno dopo anno, generatore di una esperienza di pianificazione partecipativa a cura del Politecnico di Torino nel 2014. Le riflessioni teoriche sul rapporto interdisciplinare tra psicologia e pianificazione si ancorano a un caso studio locale, la piccola comunità di Santa Marta, mentre il Salvador spinge verso la pianificazione città e territori. The authors describe a case of cooperation that began in 2008 as an intervention of Psicologi nel mondo, continued year after year, generating an experience of participatory planning carried out by the Politecnico di Tori…
La producción narrativa en el encuentro con la otredad
2020
En este artículo se presenta una investigación basada en una propuesta metodológica que busca el objetivo de dotar de más protagonismo a las participantes en ella a partir del uso de las producciones narrativas como base para la investigación y la transformación social, mediante la creación de un círculo de mujeres de cultura gitana y no gitana. Las producciones narrativas, como herramienta metodológica cualitativa, se basan en el conocimiento local y situado, y se encuentran en relación con lo que experimentamos. La idea central es producir un texto estructurado a partir de la información recopilada por la investigadora durante las sesiones, combinando la observación participativa y la rea…
Gender Inequalities and Social Sustainability. Can Modernization Diminish the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge?
2020
The gender gap in political knowledge is a classical problem of Western democracies. In the 21st century, political knowledge is still unequally distributed between men and women, as many cross-section studies have shown. This is an indicator of women’s disempowerment and the distance which remains to be covered to achieve an inclusive and sustainable society. Could public policies and gender equality laws change the situation? Using a longitudinal database in which 600,000 survey responses are analysed from 1996 to 2017, this case study of Spain aims to shed some light on this question. It combines sociological and political approaches in line with the development theory of the gender gap …
Preparing students to participate to the didactic activities of university teacher
2016
«Student Voice» è un movimento pedagogico nato negli anni Novanta nei Paesi di lingua inglese (Stati Uniti, Canada, Inghilterra e Australia): esso sostiene la partecipazione attiva e responsabile degli studenti che frequentano la scuola e l’università nella didattica dei docenti, nella ricerca universitaria e nelle politiche educative e culturali che li riguardano. Nella ricerca sperimentale qui presentata, si è voluta prestare attenzione alla partecipazione degli studenti universitari (n. 33) alle attività didattiche di un docente di pedagogia sperimentale. Si è scelto di adottare due metodi d’intervento: la scrittura espressiva, come metodo di analisi del futuro prefigurato nelle aspettat…
The usage of social media among young adults living in Nairobi, Kenya : only entertainment or contributions to societal change?
2015
Social media usage has been found to have increased all over the world, also in the so-called developing countries. Although the percentages are still rather low, it can be argued that the use of social media is becoming increasingly important also in African countries. Kenya has been found to be one of the leading countries regarding social media usage in East Africa. Although research on social media has been conducted, for instance, on the use of social media in protest movements and in the areas of users’ motivation, less emphasis has been placed on their developmental aspects. Thus, to gain a deeper understanding of the usage of social media in the so-called developing countries, this …
Characteristics and Subjective Evaluation of an Intelligent Empowering Agent for Health Person Empowerment
2022
Empowerment is a process through which people acquire the necessary knowledge and self-awareness to understand their health conditions and treatment options, self-manage them, and make informed choices. Currently, few stand-alone applications for patient empowerment exist and people/patients often go on the Web to search for health information. Such information is mainly obtained through generic search engines and it is often overwhelming, too generic, and of poor quality. Intelligent Empowering Agents (IEA) can filter such information and assist the user in the understanding of health information about specific complaints or health in general. We have designed and developed a first prototy…
User participation in knowledge update of expert systems
1997
Abstract Applying the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) of persuasion we conducted an experiment to examine the effect of participation of users in the design process on their acceptance of system recommendations and revision of their original decisions. Results of our study indicate that two different types of information processing occur when subjects are reviewing the expert system recommendations. 1. (i) For users who have a high perceived level of participation in updating the knowledge of the ES, ambiguity of the decision setting is the primary determinant affecting acceptance of the recommendation from the ES. 2. (ii) For users who have a low perceived level of participation in upda…
La formazione come strumento di crescita : narrazione di un’esperienza didattica a Palermo
2020
In un momento storico in cui, in Italia, le scuole di pianificazione sono oggetto di importanti, e pesanti, ripensamenti strutturali il paper vuole ragionare sulla necessità sì di una riformulazione di tali scuole, ma in un’ottica di potenziamento e certamente maggiore relazione con le pratiche che quotidianamente influiscono sulla vita delle persone, siano esse tecniche che spontanee. La tesi che si vuole esporre nasce da alcune esperienze personali come docente di pianificazione che da alcuni anni, in modo coordinato con altri docenti e all’interno dell’intero sistema di didattica del corso di laurea magistrale in Pianificazione Territoriale Urbanistica e Ambientale dell’Università degli …