Open Society

Formazione & insegnamento is an Open Access Journal that publishes research on education and training, with focus on continuing education, educational policies in a European and global context, pedagogy, and teaching. It was founded in 2003 by the late Prof. Umberto Margiotta

We made a myriad of accessibility improvements, and paid extra attention to the needs of the vision-impaired. In this post, we discuss some of the changes we made.

For a long time, society had a story for children who were suddenly different—emotionally distant, less social, or with new health challenges. The story was ...

Thou Shalt Not Be Indifferent Marian Turski, speech at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 27th January 2020. Dear friends, I am one of the few still alive of those who …

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education

Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."

Pressure to achieve at school at age 15 is linked to depressive symptoms and risk of self-harm, and the association appears to persist into adulthood, finds a study led by UCL researchers.

Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers.

Purpose: In the last 5 years, many states have introduced science of reading (SOR) reforms that require increased attention to foundational skills instruction in grades K–3. The fast spread of these policies raises questions about the mechanisms that facilitated their rapid adoption. The purpose of this article is to examine how SOR discourses obscured or legitimated agendas of various policy actors involved in promoting literacy reforms. Research Methods/Approach: Grounded in anthropology of policy, this study examines interactions between legislators, policy makers, and policy advocates in Tennessee. Data sources include video recordings of legislative sessions, policy artifacts, reports, media articles, and interviews. Findings: The study documents how the focus on the “science of reading” disguises pursuits of conservative think tanks and major philanthropies in promoting curriculum reforms. Intermediary organizations’ advocacy for particular instructional materials and consulting services aligned with Common Core State Standards, even in the states that moved away from them, paves the way for greater standardization, centralization, and expansion of private sector involvement in educational services. Implications: Positioned in the wider sociopolitical context of neoliberal education reforms, SOR advocacy becomes a performance that obscures privatizers’ efforts to use literacy legislation as a mechanism for securing a market share for their products and services.

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Many autistic adults experience anxiety in ways that are qualitatively unique when compared to the experiences of non-autistic adults. In this...

Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs: commentary, Quinn et al

This systematic review with narrative synthesis aimed to examine the available evidence on the relationship between neurodiversity and cognitive load …

If the idea of “curing” autism reveals such brutality of intentional disregard for neurodiversity. If the RFKJr/Trump/AntiVax crowd’s belief that you’d rather your child be dead than autistic reveals…

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

Anthony Baye is pursuing his college degree while serving a sentence in a Massachusetts prison. This is his story of embracing social and emotional learning.

This is my place: supporting Autistic children’s wellbeing in neuro-affirming ways

From the colors on set to a proud display of flags, here are the details of Bad Bunny’s halftime Show explained.

When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may even be true) that stopping and pivoting the team to standardizing on PHP was critical to unlocking everything that came later at Etsy. After all, no one ever has to argue about what elegant PHP looks like.

A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

Introduction The clinical presentation of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in adults is heterogeneous, with symptom overlap, masking behaviors, and developmental continuity complicating diagnostic differentiation. Despite increasing recognition...

Rather than promoting deeper literacy skills, the phonics-based approach 'may unintentionally encourage teachers to focus on surface-level goals.'

Autistic Pattern Perception: Between the True Structures of Reality and Sensory Overload Why some minds grasp connections and symmetries that neurotypicals filter out, revealing hidden fractals while …

When Time Flows Elsewhere: Autistic Life Between Quantum and Hyperfocus From Physics to Monotropism: Chronicles of a Brain Living Vertically in a Horizontal World Yesterday, I lost six hours. Or …