Course Description In this course, we will explore the question of the actual and potential connections between democracy and education. Our focus of attention will be placed on a critical examination of democratic theory and its implications for the civic education roles and contributions of teachers, adult educators, community development practitioners, and community organizers. We will survey and deal critically with a range of competing conceptions of democracy, variously described as classical, republican, liberal, radical, marxist, neomarxist, pragmatist, feminist, populist, pluralist, postmodern, and/or participatory. Using narrative inquiry as a means for illuminating and interpreting contemporary practice, we will analyze the implications of different conceptions of democracy for the practical work of civic education.

Democracy and education.

หนงสอเรอง การออกแบบการวจย: วธการวจยเชงคณภาพ วธการวจยเชงปรมาณ และวธการวจยแบบผสม (Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method Approaches) เปนหนงสอทเรยบเรยงเพออธบายเกยวกบความแตกตางของกระบวนทศนการวจยทง 2 แบบ ไดแก การวจย เชงปรมาณ และการวจยเชงคณภาพ และความจำเปนของประเดนปญหาการวจยทตองนำกระบวนทศนทง 2 มารวมกนหาขอคนพบเพอนำไปสผลการวจยทสามารถนำผลการวจยไปใชประโยชนไดอยางจรงมากยงขน เรยกวา “การวจยแบบผสมผสาน” ซงเปนหนงสอทอธบายวธการวจยทง 2 ประเภทไดอยางชดเจน และการรวมกนของกระบวนทศนการวจยทง 2 แบบอยางลงตว

Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method Approaches

This chapter explores the ecology of human development, those forces in the person's environment that affect and influence development. Urie Bronfenbrenner's model of the human ecosystem guides the discussion, making connections between children in families and in communities and the larger society that surrounds them. The human ecosystem model is much like the study of the natural ecology, focusing on the interactions between subjects at various levels of the environment as they affect each other. The interaction between individual and environment forms the basis of an ecological approach to human development. This view sees the process of development as the expansion of the child's conception of the world and the child's ability to act on that world. Risks to development can come from both direct threats and the absence of opportunities for development. Sociocultural risk refers to the impoverishment in the child's world of essential experiences and relationships.

The Ecology of Human Development

Temperament and development

Migration and Domestic Work, A European Perspective on a Global Theme

In Italia, da un paio decenni, si e andato affermando un nuovo welfare privato per la cura e l’assistenza a domicilio degli anziani dove ad occuparsene sono quasi esclusivamente donne di origine straniera. Quasi un milione di loro ha intrapreso la migrazione verso l’Italia come strategia di tipo familiare, lasciando nel Paese d’origine figli, mariti e genitori anziani.
Da un punto di vista pedagogico, non si puo fare a meno di considerare l’esperienza di queste lavoratrici e madri a distanza, ne si possono trascurare le loro condizioni di potenziale vulnerabilita dell’essere donne, straniere, inserite in un settore lavorativo poco tutelato e svalorizzato, esposto inoltre ai rischi propri delle professioni di cura. 
Una nuova frontiera per gli studi pedagogici sembra allora delinearsi nel promuovere un sostegno alla genitorialita finalizzato al mantenimento delle relazioni familiari a distanza o ad accompagnare i ricongiungimenti familiari. 
La tesi, riconoscendo un possibile legame tra il sostegno alla genitorialita e il benessere dei nuclei familiari, ha realizzato uno studio di caso multiplo su tre progetti realizzati in Italia. Basandosi sui dati empirici emersi vengono delineate alcune linee guida per la futura progettazione di interventi di sostegno alle famiglie transnazionali.

Marta Bertagnolli

Papers

Aver cura di chi cura: i progetti di sostegno alla genitorialità a distanza e alle famiglie transnazionali provenienti dai Paesi postsocialisti