A Just War No Longer Exists: The Teaching and Trial of Don Lorenzo Milani

Reviewed Book: Milano, Lorenzo. A Just War No Longer Exists: The Teaching and Trial of Don Lorenzo Milani. Notre Dame: Univ of Notre Dame Press, 1988

Critical pedagogy and citizenship : Lorenzo Milani and the school of Barbiana

This article can also be found in: Learning and Social Difference, Challenges for Public Education and Critical pedagogy. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm, 2006. Chapter 8,This paper discusses the pedagogical challenge of providing an education that stresses the connection between learning and power and the potential, for social solidarity, of a collective approach to learning based on a process of what Freire and other critical pedagogues would call ‘critical literacy.’ The stimulus for such a pedagogical approach to citizenship derives from the legacy of a radical and very controversial Tuscan priest, Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967), and the students from an isolated and impoverished farming community in the Mugello region of Tuscany who constituted the School of Barbiana. The pedagogical ideas emanating from Lorenzo Milani and his school of Barbiana remain a source of reference in debates about schooling and social activism in Italy and elsewhere. The key text to emerge from this school, Lettera a Una Professoressa (Letter to a Teacher), was an important source of reference during the turbulent ‘sessantotto’ (1968) period in Italy. The paper provides an analysis of this and other works with whihc Lorenzo Milani was connected.peer-reviewe

Lorenzo Milani in our times

This article pays tribute to one of Europe's foremost critical pedagogues, the Tuscan Don Lorenzo Milani, on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth. It highlights the key moments in his life as priest and educator as well as his pedagogical approach directed at challenging the class-conditioned status quo in Italian society and at achieving greater social justice. His was a pedagogy which highlighted the collective dimensions of learning and teaching, pupils being students and educators at the same time, an approach to learning akin to what Paulo Freire would call critical literacy and what contemporary writers would call critical media literacy in the sense of reading and writing the word and the world. His pedagogy entailed a process of reading history against the grain as part of an attempt to generate a culture of non-militarization. All these elements make Don Milani and his student-teachers pedagogues for our times.peer-reviewe

The Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation - 20 Years on

We review work on the Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) equation over the last two decades.Comment: 24 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the conference on "Localization and Energy Transfer in Nonlinear Systems", June 17-21, 2002, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain; to be published by World Scientifi

Lorenzo Market between Diversity and Mutation

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the diversity of groups of workers and the local division of labour in the San Lorenzo Market, Florence, Italy. This empirical research may help distinguish the demographic, migratory and occupational patterns of the workers in accordance with their national origin. It shows that geographical origin is the key to the differences, specialisations and oppositions between the Florentines and the various groups of migrants on the one hand, and between these immigrant groups on the other hand. It shows too the mutation made by the conflict between global dynamics and a local labour market.San Lorenzo Market, Immigrant workers, Diversity, Local division of labour, Migratory trajectories

Lorenzo Grandín, Pilar / Marcenaro, Simone: Il canzionere del trovatore Roi Queimado

Review: Lorenzo Grandín, Pilar / Marcenaro, Simone: Il canzoniere del trovatore Roi Queimado, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2010, 350 pp.Reseña: Lorenzo Grandín, Pilar / Marcenaro, Simone: Il canzoniere del trovatore Roi Queimado, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2010, 350 pp.Recensión: Lorenzo Grandín, Pilar / Marcenaro, Simone: Il canzoniere del trovatore Roi Queimado, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2010, 350 pp.Resenha: Lorenzo Grandín, Pilar / Marcenaro, Simone: Il canzoniere del trovatore Roi Queimado, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2010, 350 pp

Don Giovanni, February 16, 1989

This is the concert program of the Boston University Opera Insitute and Boston University Chamber Orchestra performance of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte on Thursday, February 16, 1989, at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

What Catholic educators can learn from the radical Christianity and critical pedagogy of Don Lorenzo Milani

This paper exposes some of the ideas expressed or associated with the work of don Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana and discusses them in the light of the teachings of the gospels. It draws out the ramifications of these ideas for a critical education in the Christian spirit. The focus throughout is on education for social justice.peer-reviewe

How I ventilate an obese patient

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Data assimilation for the calibration of flume tests with different granular mixtures

open5siThe flow-type landslide (mud-flow, debris-flow, etc.) could often cause large economic and social damages. Besides the mechanisms that rule the triggering phenomena, the comprehension of their propagation behaviour represents an important aspect to be addressed, because from this issue it depends the reliability of different risk scenarios and the evaluation of mitigation strategies. The kinematic of these phenomena as well as the shape and the heights of the final deposit is related to the viscous character of the involved materials that in turn depends on the mutual concentration of the component phases: the water, the fine matrix and the coarser fraction. In order to understand the composition effects on the kinematic of flow-type landslides several flume tests were carried out using different kaolin-sand mixtures, and then simulated with a particle-based SPH code. The constitutive parameters derived from a laboratory characterization of two components were then fine-tunes by mean of a data assimilation numerical procedure in order to individuate the most suitable values for describing the observed propagation.openBrezzi, Lorenzo; Kaitna, Roland; Gabrieli, Fabio; Zulpo, Margherita; Cola, SimonettaBrezzi, Lorenzo; Kaitna, Roland; Gabrieli, Fabio; Zulpo, Margherita; Cola, Simonett