"Tra inclusione ed emarginazione?" Percorsi scolastici dei giovani d'origine immigrata nella scuola secondaria superiore italiana

2009 ◽  
pp. 163-187
Author(s):  
Andrea Ravecca
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
School Year ◽  
Ethnic Capital ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Educational Paths ◽  
A Minor

- In the last few years, the Italian migra-tory setting has been characterised by an increasing presence of second generation young migrants, most of them in the school. Their educational integration has been studied mostly referring to the processes of cultural inclusion in the receiving society, with a minor attention on the achievement. We will try to describe the young migrants' educational paths in the high school, that - in case of failure - could represent the starting point of social and occupational marginalization, or, if they are succeeding, it could represent the first step of intergenerational mobility. Starting from the most relevant theories on the school achievement of the migrant children, we will examine the concept of human, cultural and social capital as a factor influencing the differences in the educational outcomes: we will also ana-lyse the concept of ethnic capital, and its particular characteristics in Ecuadorian migrants. A research run in Genoa in the school year 2006/07 with two samples of youth in high secondary school, one of second generation Ecuadorians, one of Ital-ians with the same characteristic, allows to better understand differences and com-munalities in the educational paths.Keywords Social capital, human capital, school achievement, socialization, second generations.

scholarly journals Part-optimized forming by spatially distributed vaporizing foil actuators

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlon Hahn ◽  
A. Erman Tekkaya
Keyword(s):  
Process Design ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Specific Impulse ◽  
Design Procedure ◽  
Mathematical Optimization ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Spatially Distributed ◽  
Lower Tool ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Charging Energy

AbstractElectrically vaporizing foil actuators are employed as an innovative high speed sheet metal forming technology, which has the potential to lower tool costs. To reduce experimental try-outs, a predictive physics-based process design procedure is developed for the first time. It consists of a mathematical optimization utilizing numerical forming simulations followed by analytical computations for the forming-impulse generation through the rapid Joule heating of the foils. The proposed method is demonstrated for an exemplary steel sheet part. The resulting process design provides a part-specific impulse distribution, corresponding parallel actuator geometries, and the pulse generator’s charging energy, so that all process parameters are available before the first experiment. The experimental validation is then performed for the example part. Formed parts indicate that the introduced method yields a good starting point for actual testing, as it only requires adjustments in the form of a minor charging energy augmentation. This was expectable due to the conservative nature of the underlying modeling. The part geometry obtained with the most suitable charging energy is finally compared to the target geometry.

Bilingualism, School Achievement, and Mental Wellbeing: A Follow-up Study of Return Migrant Children

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-266
Author(s):  
Lauri Vuorenkoski ◽  
Olli Kuure ◽  
Irma Moilanen ◽  
Varpu Penninkilampi ◽  
Antero Myhrman
Keyword(s):  
School Achievement ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Return Migrant ◽  
Follow Up Study

scholarly journals MEDIA LITERACY IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 613-623
Author(s):  
Katarina Vanek
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
School Year ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
School Curricula

This research has been set in view of the increasing exposure of children and youth to the media and the challenges of the modern education system. The aim was to establish the existence and representation of extracurricular activities in school curricula aimed at media literacy of students in primary schools in the area of Virovitica-Podravina and Požega-Slavonia Counties in the Republic of Croatia. The data were collected by studying the documentation - analysis of 25 school curricula for the 2020/2021 school year, which are available on websites of the schools. The results are described by the descriptive method and point to the existence of extracurricular activities aimed at media literacy of students, but not in all schools. Such extracurricular activities are more represented in higher grades of primary school (5th -8th grade) and are mostly oriented toward journalism, while in lower grades (1st - 4th grade) the most frequent activities are related to Computer Science or a specific aim set within media literacy education. Finally, this research can be a starting point for other research projects for determining the causal links that led to such results and an incentive to improve educational practice in Croatian schools.

The Tallahassee BeanCounters: A Problem-Based Learning Case in Forensic Auditing

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Durtschi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Information Use ◽  
Minor League Baseball ◽  
Minor League ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Baseball Team ◽  
A Minor

You are auditing the books of the Tallahassee BeanCounters (TBC), a minor league baseball team in Tallahassee, Florida. During your audit the team's owner, Franklin Kennedy, approaches you and offers an additional fee if you will quietly investigate the possibility of fraud within the firm. Mr. Kennedy reports that he received an anonymous tip and, based on that information, believes that someone within the firm could be perpetrating fraud. Your task is to use the information given here (the financial books and back-up documents) as a starting point for your investigation. From that starting point, use creativity and investigative skills to determine what other information you need. After obtaining requested information, use all the material you have gathered to determine whether fraud was committed. To completely solve a fraud, you must show the following: who committed the fraud, how it was committed, that it was intentional (not error), the economic impact of the fraud, and that it was your suspect who gained financially from the fraud.

Crusoe’s Babel, Missionaries’ Mistakes

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-65
Author(s):  
Rebecca C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Minor

This chapter discusses Robinson Crusoe, the differences between the original and its Arabic translation, and how it was used as a tool for conversion by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) to guide Eastern Christians to the right path of Protestantism by emulating Crusoe's direct and individual spiritual awakening. CMS missionaries took active steps to discourage cultural hybridity, even monitoring the translators in their employment for signs of the Catholic influence. The fantasy of purity and process of purification were part of the foundation of the missionary movement, making Crusoe's own myth of individualism and fantasy of autonomy its perfect ideological surrogate. The CMS hoped they would find inspiration in Crusoe's spiritual trials and error, as he moves from rebellion to punishment, repentance, and eventually religious conversion. The observations that emerge from setting these two versions of Crusoe's eating habits side by side might amount to a minor point but for the fact that observing Crusoe's autonomous actions on the island have played an important role in theorizing what have been called the formal and cultural institutions of the novel: individual subjectivity, formal realism, colonial accumulation, the labor theory of value, national identity, to name a few. Many translators of this period adapted or changed the source material. Regardless of the radical changes, translators praised importance of the original version and often lamented their inability to do justice to it. As the earliest surviving translation of a novel into Arabic, Qiṣṣat Rūbinṣun Kurūzī stands as an ideal starting point from which to understand the origins of the Arabic novel as they emerge from translation.

Bowling Together

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-254
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fein
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Clinical Ethnography ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

The Conclusion ends this clinical ethnography with recommendations, suggesting that interventions for autism attend not only to individual bodies but also to the repair of strained social ties and the rebuilding of social capital. Drawing on follow-up interviews with the youth on the spectrum whose experiences inform the rest of the book, as they now move into young adulthood, the chapter describes the places where they have successfully found and maintained a sense of connection and community. Using literacy scholar James Gee’s concept of an “affinity space” as a starting point, this chapter identifies characteristics shared by the communities favored by these youth. Such spaces tend to be organized around a shared interest, activity, or affinity, characterized by an ethic and aesthetic of connection and repair, and motivated by an accessible notion of virtue that can be cultivated through practical action. As such, they may provide advantages not offered by traditional social skills groups. Through such work to maintain local connections, the social disorder arising from Asperger’s syndrome, autism, and other forms of neurodevelopmental difference can be addressed where it takes place: not only within individuals but between us as well.

Cultural Heritage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Barrère
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Cultural Commons ◽  
Human And Social Capital

This article criticizes the reduction of Cultural Heritages to Cultural Capital or Cultural Commons. Whereas economists usually reduce heritages to their capital aspects (standard capital for equipment, human and social capital, natural capital, and cultural capital) or to their commons aspects (stock of resources managed by a community), we consider the components of Cultural Heritages (CH) to carry different (and generally intertwined) dimensions that prevent abstraction of the non-economic dimensions of heritages when analyzing their economic dimension. Rather than dodging the question of their multi-dimensionality, we use it as our starting point in explaining the debates about how these heritages should be defined and managed, and the necessity of considering the differing points of view and interests (both material and symbolic) of the various stakeholders.

scholarly journals A case report of the differential diagnosis of Cellulosimicrobium cellulans-infected endocarditis combined with intracranial infection by conventional blood culture and second-generation sequencing

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huifang Zhang ◽  
Chunyan He ◽  
Rui Tian ◽  
Ruilan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Human Infection ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Intracranial Infection ◽  
Cellulosimicrobium Cellulans ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Second Generation Sequencing ◽  
Generation Sequencing

Abstract Background Cellulosimicrobium cellulans is a gram-positive filamentous bacterium found primarily in soil and sewage that rarely causes human infection, especially in previously healthy adults, but when it does, it often indicates a poor prognosis. Case presentation We report a case of endocarditis and intracranial infection caused by C. cellulans in a 52-year-old woman with normal immune function and no implants in vivo. The patient started with a febrile headache that progressed to impaired consciousness after 20 days, and she finally died after treatment with vancomycin combined with rifampicin. C. cellulans was isolated from her blood cultures for 3 consecutive days after her admission; however, there was only evidence of C. cellulans sequences for two samples in the second-generation sequencing data generated from her peripheral blood, which were ignored by the technicians. No C. cellulans bands were detected in her cerebrospinal fluid by second-generation sequencing. Conclusions Second-generation sequencing seems to have limitations for certain specific strains of bacteria.

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