The Affective Dimensions of Farm-Labor Organizing

In the United States, farm-workers are traditionally excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which guarantee basic rights to workers, including the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In a sense, farm-workers are confined to a secondary market characterized by substandard wages and labor conditions. This study explores how migrant farm-workers in North Carolina have responded to their labor conditions with a campaign that culminated in the achievement of the first labor contract for guest-workers in US history. Based on ethnographic research, it reflects upon the role of grassroots organizing in challenging a culture of racism that has remained dangerously alive in many parts of our society

Does Enactive Teaching Improve Inclusion of Immigrant Pupils? A Research in Northern Italy's Schools:

Immigration in recent years has dramatically increased, especially in Europe. Countries have been coping with it in different ways, and this suggests that certain policies and approaches may work better than others. As a fact, a successful integration starts with the education system. This study investigates how the teacher's approach toward his or her class influences the development of different ways of thinking in the students. Thirty-four primary school teachers were interviewed to identify which teaching approach they uphold among transmissive, constructivist, and enactive teaching. Then, a connection was searched between teachers' beliefs and the average scores obtained by their 659 students in critical, creative, metacognitive, emotional, and contemplative thinking tests. The hypothesis argues that a more inclusive approach, such as enactivism can be an efficient strategy, as it views diversity as an asset rather than as a problem. Hence, this study attempts to demonstrate that enactive teaching is an effective approach that everyone should consider as it can help both native and immigrant students

Emigration by Dispossession

In the United States, farm-workers are traditionally excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which guarantee basic rights to workers, including the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In a sense, farm-workers are confined to a secondary market characterized by substandard wages and labor conditions. This study explores how migrant farm-workers in North Carolina have responded to their labor conditions with a campaign that culminated in the achievement of the first labor contract for guest-workers in US history. Based on ethnographic research, it reflects upon the role of grassroots organizing in challenging a culture of racism that has remained dangerously alive in many parts of our society

A Case Study on the Impact of Digital Relationships on Unaccompanied Minors during the COVID-19 Lockdown

Abstract.The exploratory study investigates how unaccompanied minors (UAMs) in Italy dealt with social isolation at the time of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Have they suffered from the effects of the lockdown? How did their relationships change? What feelings characterised their experience? What factors helped them? Did ICT help them, or did it increase their social and economic marginalisation? Very little researchhasinvestigatedthe issues of UAMs, socialisation, technologies, and pandemics together. The data were collected through a purpose-built questionnaire that obtained an excellent Cronbach Alpha index (0.91) for internal consistency, which was administered to the migrant students of a school in North-East Italy. The answers indicatedthat they perceived the change in their social relations;but they coped with it, thanks to their internal resources, such as resilience and self-efficacy, and external ones, including digital devices and social support from family and teachers. Their friendship networks are regrettably fragile, and the youths do not rely much on them. On the other hand, the results show the crucial role of adults for the UAMs’ well-being: everyone, from the developers of policies to teachers, should take this aspect into account. Providing teenagers with appropriate communication technologies, ensuring the support of caregivers and teachers, and organising activities that strengthen peer networks are the actions of paramount importance, toensure their welfare

Le attività narrative multimodali accrescono la motivazione nelle classi multiculturali? Uno studio esplorativo in una scuola primaria

Today’s teachers face a double challenge: to raise the students’ communicative and narrative skills, while at the same time maintaining a high level of motivation even in the face of the difficultiescaused by the use of Italian as L2. In this context, the use of multimodal narrative activities can be effective, allowing everyone to find their own most congenial way of expression. In a class of 8-9 year olds with a high rate of foreign students, we organized a multimodal storytelling workshop based on an adaptation of Shakespeare’s work “The merchant of Venice”. Eighteen children tried their hand at listening, shadow theatre, drawing, confrontation, writing and digital storytelling. At each step, we measured their motivation for storytelling, trying to understand which activities produced the greatest effects. Results show that foreign children start with a lower perception of their narrative skills and perceive a higher effort. However, at the end of the workshop the two groups finished with very close results. Children feel more confident communicating by acting but the set of experienced modalities motivated children to narrate. We have recorded a steady interest by the children, and despite some difficulties, they showed perseverance and determination in the assigned tasks, bringing them to completion.Oggi, gli insegnanti affrontano una duplice sfida: aumentare le capacità comunicative e narrative degli studenti, mantenendo allo stesso tempo un alto livello di motivazione anche di fronte alle difficoltà causate dall’uso dell’italiano come L2. In questo contesto, l’uso di attività narrative multimodali può essere efficace, consentendo a tutti di trovare il modo di espressione più congeniale.Abbiamo organizzato un laboratorio di narrazione multimodale basato su un adattamento dell’opera di Shakespeare “Il mercante di Venezia” in una classe di alunni di 8-9 anni con un alto tasso di studenti stranieri. Diciotto bambini si sono cimentati con l’ascolto, il teatro delle ombre, il disegno, il confronto, la scrittura e la narrazione digitale. Ad ogni passo, abbiamo misurato la loro motivazione per la narrazione, cercando di capire quali attività producano gli effetti maggiori. I risultati mostrano che i bambini stranieri partono con una percezione inferiore delle loro capacità narrative e percepiscono uno sforzo superiore. Tuttavia, alla fine del workshop i due gruppi hanno terminato con risultati molto simili. I bambini si sentono più sicuri comunicando con la recitazione, ma è l’insieme delle modalità sperimentate che ha motivato i bambini alla narrazione. Abbiamo registrato un costante interesse da parte dei bambini e, nonostante alcune difficoltà, hanno mostrato perseveranza e determinazione nei compiti assegnati, portandoli a completamento

Nuovi alunni significano una nuova scuola? Rispondono le insegnanti

Today our classes are composed of children of all nationalities, culture, educationlevel and learning style. It is no longer possible to recognize a commonand homogeneous input profile, but only a multitude of differencesand special needs. Teachers have to cope with this increased heterogeneity,changing their teaching style and sometimes even their beliefs about teaching.Through some questions aimed at teachers of some primary schools innorthern Italy, it was possible to understand how they live and react in faceof this phenomenon. We attend a gradual neglect of the more traditionalteaching models and a spontaneous propensity to seeking more inclusiveteaching models.Le nostre classi accolgono oggi bambini di ogni nazionalità, cultura, livellodi preparazione e stile di apprendimento. Non è più possibile riconoscereun profilo di ingresso comune ed omogeneo, ma solo una moltitudine didifferenze e bisogni particolari. Le insegnanti devono far fronte a questoaumento di disomogeneità modificando il proprio stile di didattica e talvoltaanche le loro convinzioni riguardo all’insegnamento stesso. Attraverso alcunedomande rivolte alle insegnanti di alcune scuole primarie del NordItalia, è stato possibile comprendere come esse vivano e reagiscano difronte a questo fenomeno. Si può infatti assistere ad un graduale abbandonodei modelli didattici più tradizionali e ad una propensione spontaneaper la ricerca di modelli didattici maggiormente inclusivi

POTENZIALITÀ E LIMITI DEL REDDITO DI BASE: RISPOSTE AL QUESTIONARIO DI ETICA & POLITICA

In this article the issue of basic income is analyzed along five main research vectors: A putative “Italian delay” concerning both the reception of the international debate on basic income and the original elaboration of its constitutive elements; Labor transformations in late capitalism; The role played by nation-states in the European space; The new functions performed the realm of social reproduction in contemporary value-producing activities; The supposed existence of an ecologically harmful productivist nexus at the very core of the (different versions of the) Fordist welfare state

5 Labor Representation in a Right-to-Work State

In the United States, farm-workers are traditionally excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which guarantee basic rights to workers, including the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In a sense, farm-workers are confined to a secondary market characterized by substandard wages and labor conditions. This study explores how migrant farm-workers in North Carolina have responded to their labor conditions with a campaign that culminated in the achievement of the first labor contract for guest-workers in US history. Based on ethnographic research, it reflects upon the role of grassroots organizing in challenging a culture of racism that has remained dangerously alive in many parts of our society