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Rossella’s
main research interest with respect to the theme of the ERT Format
is the investigation of the implicit social models conveyed by educational
formats especially in school education, and their impact in terms
of children’s “collateral learning”, to say it with
Dewey. In particular, with respect to power relations and authority,
the representation of knowledge, trust and autonomy, the status of
playfulness and work. With respect to technologies, she is interested
in the promotion of their systemic and ecological integration in educational
environments taking into account the history, value systems and goals
of these environments. Rossella believes that a crucial challenge
for the future is the re-design of physical spaces in which technology
must be integrated, as well as the re-design of technology interfaces
and hardware, in order to encourage children’s creativity, sense
of autonomy and belonging, physicality and spatial appropriation.
It is necessary to restitute a meaning to elements that, although
physically present, have mentally disappeared from the discourse on
school: space, lights, materials, and colors... Traditionally evacuated
in most of the current research and policies, which often confuse
innovation with a massive introduction of information and communication
technologies neglecting the space dimension, Rossella hopes that those
physical qualities will be brought back to the forefront of research
and design of educational formats.
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