The nine chapters in this book explore how the Italian education system responded to distance learning during the first wave of the pandemic. The impact of the hard lockdown on both teaching and learning revealed the inherent weaknesses of a system in which digital technology had only recently been introduced and highlighted the relevant inequalities in their access and use.
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| Introduction: Social Needs, Emergency Policies and Solidaristic Attitudes throughout the Italian Education System: Sociological Research during the Covid-19 Pandemic Outbreak |
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1 Challenges for Early Childhood Professionals: An Empirical Research Project on the Strategies, Practices and Effects of Leads |
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2 Rethinking the Role of No Schooling during the Pandemic |
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3 Rhetoric, Problem or Necessity? A Study of Parental Involvement during Covid-19 |
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4 From Classroom to Screen: An Exploratory Study of University Students in Sicily during the Covid-19 Lockdown |
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5 A New World Is Open? Distance Teaching in Italian Universities during the Covid-19 Emergency |
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6 Young Europeans, Distance Learning and Trust in Educational Institutions: A Comparative Analysis after Covid-19 |
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7 Inside the Emergency: Digital Teaching from the Point of View of Teachers |
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8 Distance Learning/Teaching during the Covid-19 Emergency: The Perspective of School Principals |
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9 The Platformization and Commodification of Italian Schools during the Covid-19 Crisis: Implications for Policy and Future Research |
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| A Post-Commentary from the UK: Educational Challenges after the Covid-19 Pandemic |
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Maddalena Colombo is Full Professor in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. She coordinated the Italian Sociological Associations Sociology of Education section (AIS-EDU) from 2018 to 2021. Her research interest are educational inequalities, training and socialization processes and supply, education systems, impacts of migration in schools and the curriculum, social changes in teachers role, and intercultural competences.
Marco Romito is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Sociological Associations Sociology of Education section (AIS-EDU) and member of the editorial board of the journal Scuola democratica. He researches educational inequalities in schools and higher education, on educational transitions and on the digitalization of education.
Massimiliano Vaira is Associate Professor of Sociology of Economy at the University of Pavia. He is member of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) and of the Scientific Committee of the journal Scuola democratica. His research interests are comparative analysis of higher education systems, the academic profession and work conditions, university and industry relationships, the Third Mission of universities and public engagement. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Sociological Associations Sociology of Education section (AIS-EDU) from 2018 to 2021.
Martina Visentin is Assistant Professor at the University of Padua, where she teaches Sociology and Social Policies. Her academic research focuses on social innovation, youth studies and cultural transformation. She has collaborated as a researcher and as a consultant for several services and universities. She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Sociological Associations Sociology of Education section (AIS-EDU) from 2018 to 2021.
