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Apprendere una seconda lingua da analfabeti tra ricerca e didattica. Una esperienza con i minori stranieri non accompagnati a Palermo
This contribution presents data and experiences acquired within the frame of the “Inclusion Project Linguistic School of Italian Language for Foreigners” of the University of Palermo. The program, created five years ago, has designed and managed educational courses for adults and unaccompanied minors (msna) of low and very low schooling level, most of them between 16 and 18 years old, and developed a series of social initiatives related to the insertion of these minors in Sicilian Society. These youths are part of a large number of unaccompanied adolescents who, in recent years, have come ashore to the port of Palermo along with thousands of refugees and asylum seekers. A significant number…
Memoria
2022
L’ultimo romanzo della scrittrice statunitense di origini norvegesi Siri Hustvedt, Memories of the Future (Ricordi del futuro, 2019) propone alcuni casi di amnesia declinati secondo due modalità, individuale e collettiva, entrambe necessarie per far luce sulla teoria della memoria che l’autrice ha elaborato nei suoi saggi e romanzi. American writer Siri Hustvedt's latest novel, Memories of the Future (Memories of the Future, 2019) offers some cases of amnesia declined in two modes, individual and collective, both of which are necessary to shed light on the theory of memory that the author has elaborated in her essays and novels.
Dal rifiuto dell’esistenza alla riflessione identitaria. Un homme qui dort di Georges Perec come paradigma del racconto neutro
2019
In Georges Perec's works the identity reflection and the relationship with Jewish origins constitute a complex itinerary. Perec will try several times the autobiographical writing but it will be with the novel "W ou le souvenir d'enfance" that he will be able to achieve it. However, among the works that precedes "W ou the souvenir of d’enfance", "Un homme qui dort" a Proustian-inspired novel on urban solitude offers itself as a space for the analysis of Georges Perec's identity writing. The essay reflects on the construction of the neutral narrative, a textual typology theorized by both Barthes and Blanchot, which Perec for the first time experiences in this work to symbolize the crisis of …
Spazio della memoria, memoria dello spazio nel racconto breve kuwaitiano: Yasquṭ al-maṭar… tamūt al-amīrah di Munā al-Šammarī
2023
Munā al-Šammarī is a Kuwaiti short story writer, novelist, screenwriter and journalist born in Kuwait in 1966. Her first collection of stories, entitled Yasquṭ al-maṭar… tamūt al-amīrah (The rain falls… the princess dies) and published in 2012 describes the anxieties and worries of the inhabitants of Fahaheel (Faḥīḥīl), the small town located in southern Kuwait, where the writer was born and lived her childhood and adolescence and forged her identity. In the thirteen short stories that make up the collection, space – which is a ‘space of memory’ – represents not merely a geographical framework but rather the real object of narration. Through the constant dialogue between ‘space of memory’ a…
Dendrolatrie. Miti e pratiche dell'immaginario arboreo
2021
L’avvento dell’Antropoce, epoca in cui l’essere umano è diventato una forza geologica, scompagina la divisione del sapere tra scienze umane e naturali. Per comprenderlo, è necessario costruire nuove forme di alleanza tra discipline. È quanto invita a fare anche il fe- nomeno delle dendrolatrie. Diffuso in ogni luogo e in ogni epoca, il culto degli alberi testimonia come il mondo arboreo abbia plasma- to modi di vivere e di pensare, venendone a sua volta trasformato. Per scavare nella complessità di questo scambio, il volume racco- glie i frutti del dialogo tra un gruppo interdisciplinare di ricercatrici e ricercatori che esplorano l’immaginario arboreo in tre direzioni: quella degli studi s…
Immagini fuori posto. Nodi e intrecci iconografici
2019
The essay summarizes a field research work started in 1998 in Calamonaci (AG). Through the discovery of the diversity and alterity of the endotic, between the known and the familiar, continuously discovered and enriched, the author develops a careful analysis of family images that become the premise and purpose of the research. This field research involved about 300 families and then became a photographic exhibition, with a catalog, experienced, shared and participated by the community. In this work, the author has adopted a participatory research method trying to understand how the photographic image, almost always thought of as the referent of the reality represented, with each new vision…
Sul filo della memoria, guardando al futuro
2021
Breve introduzione al volume stampato in occasione della riapertura del Museo ibleo delle arti e tradizioni popolari "S.A. Guastella" Brief introduction to the volume printed on the occasion of the reopening of the Hyblean Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions "S.A. Guastella"
La photographie engageante di JR: integrazione e intersezione tra immagini e città
JR's street art actions reflect on the life and history of cities and the ways of living there. The giant images of the faces of the inhabitants proposed in their own places of life invite to project the memory into the present using the power of photography to interpret faces: no longer masks but living representations, witnesses of the symbiotic relationship between inhabitants and cities.
Aging and prospective memory: the role of working memory and monitoring processes
2008
Background and aims: Remembering to execute an earlier planned action is essential in everyday life, and is a prerequisite for independent living in old age. The purpose of the present study was to determine the influence of age in performing a prospective memory (PM) task and to analyze the differential contribution of working memory and attentional monitoring demands. Methods: In Experiment 1, a group of young and two groups of old adults were assigned to one of two low-demanding conditions: a picture-naming task (only-Naming) and a picture-naming plus a PM task (Naming+PM). In Experiment 2, a group of young and two groups of old adults performed one of two high-demanding conditions, in w…
Robotic and virtual World Programming labs to Stimulate Reasoning and visual-spatial Abilities
2013
Abstract The individuals’ cognitive skills, academic performance and their relationship with programming of robots or virtual learning environment is a topic of particular interest in the area of human-robot interaction. This paper presents a pilot study performed on a group of 36 lower secondary school students involved in a 32-hours laboratory based on the combination of LEGO Mindstorm NXT and Microsoft Kodu Game Lab (KGL) and aimed at programming first a robot and further a more complete virtual world based on a narrative-designed scenario. The findings of the research will be discussed in the light of the effectiveness of using robotics and virtual world programming as a meaningful and …