Interactions and social identity of support teachers: An ethnographic study of the marginalisation in the inclusive school

Marin, Laura Emma Milani; Jacomuzzi, Alessandra Cecilia

doi:10.3389/feduc.2022.948202

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“…What used to be a privileged medium of just a few generations ago has become a worldwide means of communication for all. Very young children as well as the elderly have learned what the web is, what digital recording is, what the cloud is, but above all, what digital communication and communication with software are (Milani & Jacomuzzi, 2022; Milani et al, 2021).…”

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“…Lo que hace unas generaciones era un medio privilegiado, se ha convertido en un medio de comunicación mundial para todos. Tanto los niños muy pequeños como los ancianos han aprendido qué es la web, qué es la grabación digital, qué es la nube, pero sobre todo, qué es la comunicación digital y la comunicación con software (Milani & Jacomuzzi, 2022; Milani et al, 2021).…”

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People and machines in communication / Personas y máquinas en comunicación

Jacomuzzi,

Alioto

2024

Studies in Psychology: Estudios de Psicología

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It was 1937 when Alan Turing published his most famous article in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. In this work, for the first time, he presented an idealized description of the mathematical inner workings of such universal machines as would eventually become instantiated in what we now call computers. This extraordinary step in the history of ideas provided a theoretical boon that later on would prove important for the development of the computational theory of mind. According to this theory, the cognitive processes of human beings could be likened to the algorithms that apply to the representations of the external world. Based on this hypothesis, since the middle of the last century, attempts have been made to replicate the functioning of the human mind using a computer. The aim of this article is to present the differences that still exist between humans and intelligent machines. From ELIZA onwards, we have seen several developments including ALICE, up to XiaoIce. Despite the evolution of intelligent machines and the creation of social chatbots in particular, artificial intelligence still has shortcomings that set it apart from man: the way it knows, the lack of consciousness and of agency.

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People and machines in communication / Personas y máquinas en comunicación

Jacomuzzi,

Alioto

2024

Studies in Psychology: Estudios de Psicología

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Shareability: novel perspective on human-media interaction

Bruno,

Guerra,

Alioto

et al. 2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Interpersonal communication in the twenty-first century is increasingly taking place within digital media. This poses the problem of understanding the factors that may facilitate or hinder communication processes in virtual contexts. Digital media require a human-machine interface, and the analysis of human-machine interfaces traditionally focuses on the dimension of usability. However, interface usability pertains to the interaction of users with digital devices, not to the interaction of users with other users. Here we argue that there is another dimension of human-media interaction that has remained largely unexplored, but plays a key role in interpersonal communication within digital media: shareability. We define shareability as the resultant of a set of interface features that: (i) make sharing of materials with fellow users easy, efficient, and timely (sharing-related usability); (ii) include features that intuitively invite users to share materials (sharing-related affordances); and (iii) provide a sensorimotor environment that includes perceptual information about both presented materials and the behavior of other users that are experiencing these materials through the medium at hand (support to shared availability). Capitalizing on concepts from semiotics, proxemics, and perceptual and cognItive neuroscience, we explore potential criteria to asses shareability in human-machine interfaces. Finally, we show how these notions may be applied in the analysis of three prototypical cases: online gaming, visual communication on social media, and online distance teaching.

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Body in the forefront, again? Distance learning drawbacks and implications for policy

Jacomuzzi,

Milani Marin

2024

Front. Educ.

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The COVID-19 pandemic launched a challenge on the education system and required schools to make organizational changes in order to continue serving the local community. Essential to this process are support teachers who play a key role as agents of change. Despite their role, the perspectives, desires, and needs of these teachers have since been neglected, despite their centrality in contemporary Italy. Accordingly, the specific aim of this study revolves around supporting teachers’ experiences with digital technologies (i.e., learning applications, telecommunication media, and interactive devices) within a pandemic context, especially technologies used to maintain the educational bond with students with disabilities. Attuned to an interpretative paradigm, this qualitative research has an ethnographic design, which was implemented in a secondary school in a Northern Italian city. Throughout the article, we discuss the three main drawbacks found in fieldwork: (i) the prevailing change in bureaucratic management; (ii) the pervading mind–body binarism in teaching; and (iii) a long-term vision for inclusion being subject to a passive logic of adaptation. Finally, we reflect on some emerging implications. The first points to a necessary move from a rationalistic school management to an alternative model focused more on guaranteeing social justice among educational stakeholders. The second is that the very introduction of a new technology should be aimed at engaging actors whose work has been invisible to date in a school setting to empower them as key agents for change. The third suggests that, to overcome community disaggregation and mind-body binarism, a teacher-researcher figure is needed, a figure with holistic skills in addition to those of a technical nature delivered by institutional training programs.

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Interactions and social identity of support teachers: An ethnographic study of the marginalisation in the inclusive school

Cited by 3 publications

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People and machines in communication / Personas y máquinas en comunicación

People and machines in communication / Personas y máquinas en comunicación

Shareability: novel perspective on human-media interaction

Body in the forefront, again? Distance learning drawbacks and implications for policy

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