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The reading path of this new issue of the Rassegna bibliografica focuses on the contemporary debate on residential care for children, highlighting two different points of view: on the one hand, those who support the idea that...
The Third and fourth reports of the Italian Government on the condition of childhood and adolescence in Italy were sent to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in the original English version on 22 January 2009. The Italian...
With the National Action Plan for the protection of the rights and the development of children and adolescents 2002-2004, the Government confirms the attention to children and adolescents as...
The thematic path of the second issue of the new series is dedicated to the figure of the psychologist.
In the reading proposed by the review, Fulvio Tassi, Researcher in Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University...
The 2000-2001 National Action Plan contains the basic strategic lines that the Government intends to pursue to develop an adequate policy for childhood and adolescence and concrete commitments, which are added to the...
The Government's Action Plan for Children and Adolescents 1997-1998 was intended to initiate new institutional developments that, in strengthening attention to the issues of childhood and adolescence, would make it produce...
This booklet introduces the national project "A path in foster care," resulting from the collaboration between the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies and the National Coordination of Foster Care Services (...
An informative pathway in family fostering
This information and promotional brochure on family foster care has been prepared in accordance with the guidelines formulated by the Ministry of Labour and Social...
Nurseries and educational services for children is the subject of the thematic path that opens Rassegna bibliografica 1/2008, the first issue of the new series. The fresh look, requested by the technical-scientific...
The Italian Thesaurus on Childhood and Adolescence (Th.I.A.) includes in a verified vocabulary all the terms used in the subject-matter of every type of document acquired by the Centre (bibliographic, legal, statistical and...
The book's introduction is by Patrizia De Mennato, Full Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Florence. ‘Understanding the profession of educator’, writes De Mennato, ‘means penetrating the...
Europa has grown. The traditional 15 Member States were joined in 2004 by 10 countries of the Eastern Bloc and on 1 January 2007 by Bulgaria and Romania. But how do families and, above all, children and adolescents live in the EU...
After years of steady decline, the birth rate is rising again in Italy. It is increasing especially in the north and a little less in the center of the country. The demographic decline seems to have temporarily stopped and according to...
The theme of disability is addressed in this reading from a pedagogical perspective. The authors, Marisa Pavone and Riziero Zucchi, retrace the historical evolution of disability, starting from educability as a model of approach to the...
The reading path of this issue of Rassegna bibliografica is dedicated to the theme of self-help groups, tracing their origins, definitions and characteristics, typologies, and ending with a special look at the Italian situation...
Il bullismo in ambito scolastico è un tema di grande attualità, ampiamente dibattuto sui media, oggetto di studi e ricerche. Il numero 1/2007 di Cittadini in crescita si sofferma su questo argomento, tracciando un quadro del fenomeno...
The Handbook is a tool for use by labour inspectors to support their vital role in identifying and eliminating high-risk child labour situations. The text provides an overview of their task and shows how to address the problem, not only...
The first issue of the journal for 2007 presents a thematic reading on children's rights. If it is true that the level of civilisation of a society can be judged on the basis of the attention and care given to its less privileged...
The survey, which involved approximately 24,000 families, 29.2% of which with under-age children, comes a few years after the previous statistical study, which had focused for the first time on aspects concerning in particular minors....
The two-year report on the condition of children and adolescents in Italy was drawn up following the indications given by the National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence in January 2004. Therefore, attention was paid not only to...
This special monographic issue of the magazine has been designed for all those who work with families and who have to deal on a daily basis with a multi-faceted and constantly evolving reality, with the aim of providing a useful tool...
Al centro dell'analisi di questo volume è la figura del Garante per l'infanzia. L'Italia è uno dei pochi Stati dell'Unione europea a non avere un Garante nazionale, o, in alternativa, figure di Garanti regionali istituiti in tutte le...
The study Percorsi di vita: dall’infanzia all’età adulta (Life paths: from childhood to adult age) was carried out in accordance with the 2003-2004 National Action Plan for the protection of the rights and development of...
The peculiarity of this report on the state of implementation of Law no. 149/2001 is that it was drawn up thanks to the contribution of multiple institutions: the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, the Ministry of Justice, the...
The research published in Quaderno 38 and coordinated by Marina D'Amato investigates the relationship between children and the media and the influence which the latter have on the upbringing and education of children.
It is...
Maura Gelati, Full Professor of Special Education and Pedagogy at the University of Milan-Bicocca, outlines the professional profile of the support teacher from a historical retrospective.
At the beginning of the last decade,...
In questo numero di Cittadini in Crescita si analizzano gli aspetti conoscitivi, metodologici e normativi legati al concetto di gioco, oltre alle tipologie di giochi, classici e innovativi. Fra i vari argomenti trattati, si...
The main objective of the research is strictly exploratory, i.e. to investigate the perception of learning disorders by all those who come into contact with children aged 6-14 years, during both their school education and their personal...
Within the varied panorama of current immigration, unaccompanied foreign minors constitute a ‘new’ category of migrants both in Europe and in other parts of the world. The reading of this issue, written by Clara Silva, Professor of...
The volume gives an overview, as of 31 December 2005, of national and regional data and legislation concerning early childhood services in Italy.
The survey shows that there has been a considerable growth since 2000: the number of...