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Jacob Edmond. A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
2013
La mia recensione del volume di Jacob Edmond sottolinea l'attenzione costante dell'Autore verso il superamento dell'opposizione binaria che caratterizza il pensiero occidentale anche nell'analisi del prodotto poetico. My review of Jacob Edmond's volume underlines the continuous attention of the Author towards the possibility of overcoming the binary opposition that characterizes the Western way of analysis also when even taking into consideration a poetic work.
Ethnicity and Educational Inequality: An investigation of School Experience in Australia and France. Ethnicité et inégalité scolaire : une enquête su…
2008
This thesis examines the contribution of ‘ethnic' background to the school experiences of educationally and socially disadvantaged students in the senior years of high school (n=927). To investigate the role both of ethnic identification and its interplay with institutional factors, a comparative analysis of secondary student experiences in two national settings was undertaken. The case of Turkish-background students in Australia and France suggests that the influences of ethnic identity are thoroughly transformed from one setting to the other by distinctive pedagogical structures. Streaming and severe academic judgement in France lower academic self-esteem, while creating resentment and so…
The Research Project on the Principles of BRICS Commercial Contracts Law. An Introduction
2022
The paper presents the main features of the project “The Principles of BRICS Contract Law” and investigates the possible foundations of a common system of international commercial contract law within the BRICS’ network.
The Principles of BRICS Contract Law
2022
This book examines national reports on contract law in each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in order to provide a comparative analysis. It then establishes common principles, where possible, as well as a set of general “soft law” principles governing international commercial contracts in these countries.
Active learning in the process of educational change
2005
Abstract The findings reported in this article form part of a wider comparative research project investigating the active learning of teachers and of pupils in the educational practices of eight countries. This article aims to describe what a small rural school in Finland understands by active learning. Data is presented from a qualitative research case study of one school in relation to six aspects: goal setting, task structuring, accessing of information, processing of work and learning, utilizing the outcomes of work and learning, and assessment procedures. On the basis of the data, the transformative learning process of teacher in the changing school culture is presented.
El principio de buena administración y la gobernanza en la contratación pública
2020
Las exigencias de la sociedad sobre la administración pública pasan por profundizar en el comportamiento y en la dedicación profesional, sobre todo, de los administradores y gestores públicos. Todo ello no es más que trasunto del principio de buena administración que, como ya he destacado, es hoy un derecho de los ciudadanos, que reclama mayor objetividad en la toma de decisiones, mayor intensidad en la defensa de los derechos de los ciudadanos, más transparencia, más control y, sobre todo una más proactiva rendición de cuentas. Se trata, en definitiva, de imbuir a los gestores públicos y a los ciudadanos que más frecuente y estrechamente se relacionan con ellos, de sentimientos de ética, d…
Organisation and Efficiency of Education Systems: Some empirical findings
2000
Using a sample of countries chosen for their similar level of development, this article shows the extent to which the organisation of primary and secondary education differs from one country to another, notably with respect to the way in which systems differentiate and select pupils for specialised curricula. It also explores the question of whether an education system that sorts pupils at a very early age is more cost-effective than a system that does not sort pupils during compulsory education. The stylised description of national education systems is based on various sources of information. The data used in the cost analysis come from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develo…
Innovaciones metodológicas en los estudios comparativos de los costes y financiación de la educación
1997
Most past cost and finance studies of education have been limited by the lack of available data covering all aspects of the problem. As a consequence, the most widespread indicator at the international level has been for a long time the share of the GDP allocated to public education expenditure. Since about ten years, thanks to OECD initiative, new efforts have been undertaken in order to provide a better coverage of education cost and finance, in particular in the field of private expenditure. These new efforts have been extented to the adoption of a more comparable definition of education (early childhood education, adult education, aso). They have also included the elaboration of new ind…
Comparative morphology of the postpharyngeal gland in the Philanthinae (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) and the evolution of an antimicrobial brood protect…
2015
Background Hymenoptera that mass-provision their offspring have evolved elaborate antimicrobial strategies to ward off fungal infestation of the highly nutritive larval food. Females of the Afro-European Philanthus triangulum and the South American Trachypus elongatus (Crabronidae, Philanthinae) embalm their prey, paralyzed bees, with a secretion from a complex postpharyngeal gland (PPG). This coating consists of mainly unsaturated hydrocarbons and reduces water accumulation on the prey’s surface, thus rendering it unfavorable for fungal growth. Here we (1) investigated whether a North American Philanthus species also employs prey embalming and (2) assessed the occurrence and morphology of …
Il traffico di migranti nel Mediterraneo: validità della legge penale e tutela della persona
2019
Studio giuridico comparato in materia di repressione al traffico di migranti nell'ambito dell'Unione Europea con specifico riguardo al reato di favoreggiamento dell'immigrazione clandestina in Italia, Spagna e Germania e i relativi problemi di giurisdizione penale che solleva questo specifico fenomeno all'interno del bacino mediterraneo. Comparative analysis on the repression of smuggling of migrants within the EU legal framework with specific regard to domestic legislations in Italy, Spain and Germany and the jurisdictional issues which arise in such specific phenomenon. This work is part of the final deliverable of a Research Project funded by Philip Morris International (PMI-Impact) ("Th…