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Le differenze culturali come mezzo per creare ponti e valorizzare storie: il punto di vista dell’accoglienza a Bologna, Ferrara e Ravenna.
2018
Lo scopo del presente lavoro è di illustrare i metodi, le strategie e le prassi educative di presa in carico personalizzata dei minori stranieri non accompagnati nel sistema italiano dell’accoglienza. Sebbene tratti di un settore complesso, il contributo intende far luce sui rischi e sulle opportunità che caratterizzano le relazioni multiculturali in questo contesto. Analizzando l'esperienza dell'accoglienza dei minori stranieri non accompagnati dell’HUB e dello SPRAR (Sistema di Protezione per Richiedenti Asilo e Rifugiati) nei territori di Bologna, Ferrara e Ravenna, si cercherà di farne emergere le potenzialità, le criticità e la percezione del personale educativo che opera in un campo a…
Distributed Leadership and the Visibility/Invisibility Paradox in On-line Communities
2011
This paper analyzes the role of distributed leadership in three on-line communities, reflecting on an observed visibility/invisibility paradox in leadership within these communities. Leaders who downplay their seniority and assume a degree of invisibility, allocating discretionary powers to subordinate levels in an organizational hierarchy, may facilitate the emergence of distributed leadership. Yet, simultaneously, leader-led relations are enabled by high leadership visibility. This paradox—that leaders need to be both highly visible and also invisible, or hands-off, when the occasion requires it—was derived from prior research into e-learning communities and tested in the analysis of disc…
Social mirrors. Tove Jansson’sInvisibleChildand the importance of being seen
2016
ABSTRACTThis article examines the experience of being seen and analyzes its central role in the formation of a coherent sense of self. Tove Jansson’s short story from 1962, ‘The Invisible Child’, serves as the red thread of the article, and the story is analyzed in the light of Donald Winnicott’s work on social mirroring. The analysis is enriched by the psychoanalytic insights of Veikko Tahka and Heinz Kohut, and complemented by Axel Honneth’s philosophical elaborations as well as by recent developmental findings as presented by Vasudevi Reddy. The article is divided into an introduction and three sections. After summarizing Jansson’s story in the introduction, the first section elaborates …
The Trope of Sight in North American Whiteness Studies
2017
The trope of sight has been the central metaphor in North American whiteness studies sińce its very inception, that is, already before whiteness studies emerged as a separate field of study. The centrality of the trope stems not only ffom a particular applicability of the sight metaphor to render subject-object relations, but also ffom the unique presence of “sight” in the very relations between racial groups in the United States, in particular Alfican Americans, and whites. Originally, minorities were cast as objects of the gaze, while white people as subjects of the gaze, exercising the power to look, survey and pass judgment. Apart ffom exposing practices of looking employed by whites, w…