OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Natural Magic (1589) offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersections between beauty and health. It reflects the period’s beliefs about the healing properties of natural substances and ...
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(2025)This chapter explores Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Magia naturalis as a pivotal site for the development of experimental approaches to natural philosophy in Renaissance Naples. Focusing on the expanded twenty-book edition ...
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(2025)Over the course of his long life as a publicist Della Porta became increasingly aware of the Hieroglyphica by Horapollo. Della Porta developed a peculiar way of using hieroglyphic images to develop, confirm, propagate, and ...
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(2026)The experience of Hospital Schooling and Home Education in Tuscany is currently at a crossroads. On one hand, years of work have produced well-established practices and a network of relationships between schools, hospitals, ...
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(2026)This essay examines illness as an anthropological and educational experience, exploring its philosophical, historical, literary, and pedagogical dimensions. From biblical texts to Hippocratic writings, from Aquinas to ...
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(2026)The rapid digital transformation of education has profoundly reshaped the professional role of teachers, requiring the development of complex digital, pedagogical and reflective competences. This contribution explores the ...
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(2026)Through the account of a ‘journey’ in the pediatric wards of the “Department for Women and Children” of the “S. M. alle Scotte” University Hospital in Siena, a lower secondary school teacher working in a hospital setting ...
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(2026)Hospital schooling represents a distinctive educational service for hospitalized students, characterized by delivery methods and teacher-student relationships different from traditional schools. Initially an episodic ...
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(2026)This study explores autobiographical writing as a formative and reflective practice within the education and training of professionals. Adopting a qualitative-phenomenological approach, it analyzes a corpus of autobiographical ...
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(2026)This theoretical essay develops a neuroeducational framework for inclusive instructional design in complex educational contexts, integrating the principles of Daniel Siegel’s interpersonal neurobiology with special education ...
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(2026)Given the enormous progress in the treatment of diseases and the increase in survival rates, the pediatric world is also undergoing substantial change, with a significant rise in the number of children with chronic and/or ...
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(2026)The essay reflects on the role of life transitions, understood as educational processes, in the professional development of educators and school professionals engaged in promoting pedagogical and educational care within ...
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(2026)This contribution explores the professional figure of the hospital pedagogist as a ‘director’ of care processes within pediatric contexts, delineating their strategic role and systemic competencies. Drawing from a qualitative ...
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(2026)This contribution presents the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Post-graduate Course “La Scuola in Ospedale. Formare professionisti dell’educazione, della scuola, della cura”, designed within the long-standing ...
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(2026)This paper explores the historical evolution of the relationship between families and medical care for children, highlighting the shift from traditional home-based remedies to modern public healthcare. It traces the ...
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(2026)This volume synthesizes key foundations of pedagogical and educational research within Italian hospital school settings. Drawing on a case study of the hospital school at the university hospital “Azienda Ospedaliera ...
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(2026)The contribution explores the centrality of the educational relationship within care-oriented contexts, with specific reference to the long-standing collaboration between the University of Florence and the university ...
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(2026)Biographies and autobiographies that deal with illness are the central themes of this contribution. Through self-narrative writing, the powerful nature of illness stories emerges – stories that reveal worlds often difficult ...
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(2025)This essay addresses the problems caused by the existence of ghost-witnesses in the transmission of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Such ‘ghosts’ may be the result of mistaken bibliographical analyses, or they may appear during ...
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(2025)Copies of plays that have come down to us often refer to performances in different cities and at different times, staged by partly or totally different casts, with inevitable adaptations of the text to the new situation. ...




















