ANNO 2001

M. Ghisleni, R. Moscati, Che cos’é la socializzazione, Carocci, Roma,2001
This book has been conceived as an introductory guide to the subject intended for undergraduate students with little background in Social Sciences. Different aspects of the socialisation process are taken into consideration. Among others, the relationship between biology and culture; areas and agencies of socialisation; different ways of socialisation according to social classes, ethnicity and gender; the impact of social change on socialisation; and the different process of socialisation according to various stages of the lifetime.
Key-words: Socialisation, life time, social change, culture, ethnicity

M. Colombo, Scuole e comunità locali. Un’introduzione sociologica, Carocci, Roma, 2001
This book is a sociological attempt to analyse the schools as educational organisations strictly connected to their territory. The hypothesis is that in the schools system both the globalisation processes and the growing needs of specific identities ask for a community based management: as a matter of fact, it seems that the social legitimacy of educational institutions is connected to the way they are coping with the characteristics of the local demand in terms of programs, resource supply, timing and organisation of spaces. School is presented as an institution, as a service and as a community in itself. Local community is analysed as a learning community, as a care community and as a local society, creating its own knowledge and relations system. In the final part of the book some formal and informal patterns of school-community interaction are presented: the partnership with the economic stakeholders, the local connection planning, and the community education programs, realised through a network of schools, local authorities and associations..
Key-words: Educational organisation, school, community, local identity, partnership

C. de Francesco, Lavorare con i numeri dell'istruzione. Leggere,progettare e fare tabelle, Milano, Angeli, 2001.
Working with educational figures: how to read, design and make tables. A primer for undergraduates without a sociological and methodological background who wish (or must) get some empirical knowledge of Italian education. Definitions, sources (books, yearbooks and web sites) and basic figures (national and international) are introduced together with suggestions on how to manage data using Excel and Word. Tips for an effective organisation and management of data are provided. Albeit conceived for Italian students this small book can be a useful source of information for foreign readers who want to have a first grasp of education in Italy.
Key-words: Educational figures, sources, data management, use of information

C. Catarsi, Competenza e Capacità. Doppio movimento di socializzazione, Milano, Angeli, , 2001.
In the modern free market, technical innovations immediately produce ambivalent consequences: the emergence of some professions and roles is connected with the obsolete decline. The effects of this process are evident in community relations, as to the emergence and the decline of the requested habitus of knowledge and skill. Assuming the concept of “competence” as synonymous of emergent habitus – and the concept of “capability” as synonymous of traditional ( substratum habitus) – , the author describes and explains some typical “double movements” of socialisation. The theoretic base exposition, centred on recent issues of the sociological tradition (Archer, Barnes, Boltanski) and Amartya Sen’s propositions, is followed by a pertinent account of an action-research three-cornered, whose actors are – within the Tuscany regional context - the University of Florence, the regional authority and a qualified cluster of concerns.
Key-words: Professions, competence, skills, habitus, knowledge

C.Ottaviano, Media,scuola, e società. Insegnare nell’età della comunicazione, Carrocci, Roma 2001
In the last years, the discontinuity between social reality and education is becoming more and more manifest. In particular, the educational institution is changing, and this change produces disorientation, resistance and estrangement and emphasises the role of teachers, often subjected to contradictory expectations and to an overload of functions.
The socio-cultural scenery is also changing because of the new media that are transforming the approach to culture and the learning process and the educational roles that need to be revisited. This essay is based on that debate. The author analyses some aspects that co-operate to clarify the meaning and the level of those changes and their influence on teaching and learning processes. Overall the teachers are considered as cultural intermediaries, and not only as transmitters knowledge. Teachers must reform and discuss ways, contents and instruments of teaching to the new generations.

C.Ottaviano (a cura di), “Mediare i media”. Ruolo e competenze del media educator, Franco Angeli, Milano 2001
The international epistemological debate on Media Education, and on media educator. Different essays explore this theme also looking at foreign countries, such as Canada, Great Britain, France and Germany.

G.Moro, La formazione nelle società post-industriali. Modelli e criteri di valutazione, Carocci, Roma 1998
The book delineates the transition from the" industrial" to the "post-industrial" training. The different national systems of training are described and compared: the plurality of the systems is synthesised by the dichotomy between functionalistic and communicative approach to the training. In the second part of the book a comparative analysis of the most important evaluative methodologies of training is illustrated; moreover it is outlined the general
vision of the training politics supported by them: a technical and rationalistic point of view vs. a statement more attentive to the reform of the training systems.
Key-words: Post-fordism, qualification, skills, assessment, work politicies

L.Ribolzi (a cura di) L'autovalutazione nella scuola dell'autonomia, La Scuola, Brescia 2001
Assessment and self evaluation in site based management schools

G.Giovannini (a cura di) Ragazzi insieme a scuola, Homeless Book, Faenza, 2001
A research about socialisation of Italian and foreign adolescents in Modena