Global South perspectives: a curriculum analysis of a global North comparative international education graduate program

The field of Comparative International Education trains new professionals every year who engage in work in diverse countries around the world, especially global South countries, influencing policy decisions. At the same time, the decolonization framework points out the epistemic dominance of the North, which faces the ‘other’ as an object of study rather than a subject capable of also producing knowledge. This study aims to use the framework of modernity/coloniality/decoloniality to understand the profile diversity of the authors used within the training of Comparative International Education (CIE) professionals in the Global North. It presents a bibliometric analysis of the syllabi of three offerings of the basic requirement course of the International Educational Development program at Teachers College Columbia University for the academic year of 2019-2020, evaluating the presence of Global South authors. Using basic descriptive statistics and social network analysis, this study investigates the geographic representation of the canons in the field by tracing the authorship of course readings. The findings demonstrate that research produced within the Global North is dominant in the basic training of CIE students, whereas Global South authors are present almost five times less than their Global North counterparts. While ways of addressing this disparity have already been set in motion, more can be done to further decolonial and ecology of knowledge frameworks in the future.The field of Comparative International Education trains new professionals every year who engage in work in diverse countries around the world, especially global South countries, influencing policy decisions. At the same time, the decolonization framework points out the epistemic dominance of the North, which faces the ‘other’ as an object of study rather than a subject capable of also producing knowledge. This study aims to use the framework of modernity/coloniality/decoloniality to understand the profile diversity of the authors used within the training of Comparative International Education (CIE) professionals in the Global North. It presents a bibliometric analysis of the syllabi of three offerings of the basic requirement course of the International Educational Development program at Teachers College Columbia University for the academic year of 2019-2020, evaluating the presence of Global South authors. Using basic descriptive statistics and social network analysis, this study investigates the geographic representation of the canons in the field by tracing the authorship of course readings. The findings demonstrate that research produced within the Global North is dominant in the basic training of CIE students, whereas Global South authors are present almost five times less than their Global North counterparts

Troppo tardi? Per una storia orale della Grande guerra

Il saggio discute possibilità e limiti di applicazione della metodologia della storia orale all'esperienza della Prima guerra mondiale, cioè a un evento concluso da ormai cento anni e senza testimoni diretti

Hidden secrets of the Northern Adriatic: "Tegnúe", peculiar reefs

Abstract Research carried out over the last 40 years has underlined the scientific importance of the rocky outcrops scattered on the Northern Adriatic Sea bed sometimes referred to as "tegnúe". The zoobenthic biocenoses developing over these peculiar geological formations are as extraordinary as they are unique. A study carried out for an entire year in two sampling stations, at different distances from the coast, revealed a very high number of zoobenthic species, including those which have now become rare and are therefore protected in Italian seas. The water turbidity of the northern Adriatic Sea greatly reduces the quantity of light reaching these outcrops, limiting the activity of autotrophic organisms only to sciaphilous genera. Thus, the most represented trophic categories of zoobenthos are suspension, especially filter feeders. Biodiversity values calculated for the communities of these particular reefs are far higher than normally found in the soft seabed in nearby areas, but even higher than in other coralligenous outcrops in other marine ecosystem in the world. The ecological role played by the tegnúe in the Northern Adriatic is extraordinary because as well as being true oases of biodiversity, they are areas naturally protected against bottom trawl-fishing. Thus, they offer shelter and reproduction sites for a number of fish and invertebrate species, including some under stress due to severe fishing pressure

Ética y prácticas de la investigación en la historia oral: reflexiones desde el contexto italiano y europeo

Technological changes and legal aspects related to the protection of personal dataare posing new questions that impose, first of all, a methodological reflection on the responsibility and deontological sphere of those who do research and teaching with oral sources. Over the course of 10 years, the Italian Association of Oral History (AISO) has elaborated reflections and documents on this matter; among these, the text Good Practices for Oral History, first published in 2015 and then revised in 2020 to respond to a new EU legislation on data protection. The essay is the result of a comparison between Italian and European experience with the working group on research ethics of the Forum for the Humanities, Social and Applied Social Sciences, Linguistic, Languages and Arts (FCHSSALLA). It consists of three parts: the process of drafting the AISO Good Practices document; the reception of the Good Practices and the impact of EU legislation on personal data protection; the issue of oral archives and the debate on Open Science and its application in academic research and university life

Strabismi e convergenze tra Clio e la DEA

Intervento all'interno di un Forum intorno al libro di Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA. Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, 2018

Il PCI in Veneto. Una sintesi storiografica

Osservata dall’alto, a volo d’uccello, la storia del Pci in Veneto può essere divisa in sei fasi. Il saggio tratta rapidamente le prime due (La clandestinità 1921-1943 e Il ritorno 1943-1945), che sono le più studiate e meglio conosciute, e segue soprattutto il filo della “costruzione del partito di massa”: La ricostruzione 1945-1959; Il consolidamento 1959-1969; L'espansione 1959-1969; La caduta 1979-1991)