Papers by Gabriella Falcicchio
Euromentor Journal - Studies about education, 2017
International Journal of Science Education, 2021
ABSTRACT Knowledge about local species and a positive attitude towards all living organisms are i... more ABSTRACT Knowledge about local species and a positive attitude towards all living organisms are important to motivate the next generations to protect biodiversity. We compared local species identification skills and declared attitude towards invertebrates across genders in Italian and Norwegian students in teacher education. We focused on Norway and Italy for this comparative study, because of their different teaching traditions and relationships with outdoor education. We found a significant difference in local species identification skills between Italian and Norwegian students, who could identify 21% and 57% of the species, respectively. Overall, females had a more negative attitude towards invertebrates than males. However, Norwegian women had a more positive attitude towards invertebrates than Italian women did. Our result could reflect both differences in time spent in nature and teaching programs between countries. We also found a positive correlation between species identification skills and declared interest towards invertebrates. We discuss several approaches that could help to address this issue, in order for future teachers to become more aware of the risk that their biophobic attitude is transferred to the next generation with negative effects on biodiversity conservation.
Rivedere le pratiche del venire al mondo nell'ottica dell'ecologia della nascita, 2010
È successa una cosa su cui sto riflettendo da stamattina. Riguarda i giovani, riguarda il destino... more È successa una cosa su cui sto riflettendo da stamattina. Riguarda i giovani, riguarda il destino di chi cioè prende in mano il mondo e di chi educherà le generazioni a venire. Sono le studentesse e gli studenti dei corsi dove anche io insegno.<br> Ma in realtà riguarda soprattutto noi adulti e gli errori – quali e quanti! – stiamo facendo nel tirarli su.<br> Ho fatto a dicembre una prova di valutazione intermedia, su richiesta della classe di Pedagogia interculturale, un esame del secondo anno. Io non amo questo genere di prassi, sminuzza i contenuti dell'insegnamento, li parcellizza, finisce per creare quello che chiamo il fast food della cultura: cibo ingurgitato in fretta e vomitato dopo poco, senza nessuno o scarso assorbimento.
Can the loving openness of human beings lead to "the liberation of qualities in animals that... more Can the loving openness of human beings lead to "the liberation of qualities in animals that would otherwise remain hidden?" This observation made in 1959 by Aldo Capitini, the Italian philosopher and promoter of nonviolent theory and action, not only poses a question relative to neo-Darwinism, but it also offers a new and radical perspective on human evolution, bringing to the fore the moral value of biophilia. According to Stephen Kellert (1996), the relationship between Man and Nature comprises of nine basic values, and together they constitute the biological tendency of Man to affiliate himself with the natural world. The expression of these values has proved to be adaptive over the course of human evolution, developing into genetic inclinations over time. They include the moral value of 'biophilia', which concerns Humanity's ethical and spiritual affinity towards Nature. On the one hand, the formation of a 'biophilic ethics' enhances the inclinatio...
In recent decades a new perspective relevant to the processes gestation, birth and first years of... more In recent decades a new perspective relevant to the processes gestation, birth and first years of life, which Michel Odent defines as “primal period”. A world renowned obstetrician, Odent resumes the tradition of non-violent delivery of F. Leboyer to enrich and renew it considering the extended ethologic, physiologic and neuro-scientific research. The vision that emerges shows that the birth is today, in the western world, an event not only medicalized and technologized, but also disturbed by routines harming the mother, the child and above all their relationship, solicits the aggressiveness potential of mankind. To ask ourselves if it is still sustainable to give birth and raise aggressive individuals goes together with the need to revise critically the practises of being born.
Polis, 2016
The nonviolent perspective radically modifies the relations between human beings and among other ... more The nonviolent perspective radically modifies the relations between human beings and among other living creatures. The non – destructive and openness principle leads to see in the other a “you” that, even during interpersonal or social conflicts, does not become an enemy, but must still be considered akin, close, recognizable as human, capable of doing good. This vision changes the quality of conflicts which are not denied or avoided and therefore do not decrease. On the contrary, they increase because a positive dynamic of relation transformation is established.
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