La percezione della cultura figurativa di Genova nei viaggiatori del XVIII secolo: persistenze e assenze

Il configurarsi di Genova come approdo e luogo di passaggio per mete assai più note e la presenza nella città delle architetture alessiane tardo rinascimentali e alcune collezioni artistiche di rilievo presero ad attirare visitatori da tutta Europa, in un flusso che, a partire già dal XVI secolo, non aveva conosciuto grandi interruzioni nonostante i rischi del viaggio. Il patrimonio locale, specialmente quello figurativo, non aveva ancora una sua identità artistica e territoriale fuori dalle mura cittadine e pertanto l’attenzione dei visitatori fu dunque fino ad allora rivolta quasi unicamente ai grandi nomi legati al gusto coevo e al collezionismo europeo dell’epoca. Scopo di questo saggio è quello di puntualizzare la fortuna o sfortuna critica di alcuni specifici artisti emersi, sia pur episodicamente, da alcune relazioni di viaggiatori e di alcuni ricorrenti ›luoghi dell’arte‹.

The Increasing Importance of Administrative Practices in the Shaping of the Welfare State

Dans cet article, nous analysons les changements de l' Etat-providence suédois a l' exemple des services municipaux de soins pour personnes agées. On montre qu'il est possible de tracer des processus de transformation à trois niveaux. Analysées comme phénomènes complèmentaires cela montre à quelle envergure les pratiques administratives sont devenues le lieu primordial de la mise en forme de l' Etat-providence. L'incorporation du managérialisme, comme mode prévalent de gouvernance et d'organisation de services et des politiques sociales mène a la conclusion qu'on devient temoin d'une transformation d' un regime (d Etat-providence) moral et politique à un regime administratif. Dans le dernier paragraphe, nous argumentons que cette transformation affaiblit la citoyenneté sociale et transfère les valeurs et principes de la politique sociale a la sphère administrative. Nous argumentons dès lors que cette perspective analytique a des implications plus larges pour la charactérization des “Welfare regimes” et pour l'analyse des différences transnationales.

Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning: Foundations and Applications

Educational systems worldwide are facing an enormous shift as a result of sociocultural, political, economic, and technological changes. The technologies and practices that have developed over the last decade have been heralded as opportunities to transform both online and traditional education systems. While proponents of these new ideas often postulate that they have the potential to address the educational problems facing both students and institutions and that they could provide an opportunity to rethink the ways that education is organized and enacted, there is little evidence of emerging technologies and practices in use in online education. Because researchers and practitioners interested in these possibilities often reside in various disciplines and academic departments the sharing and dissemination of their work across often rigid boundaries is a formidable task. Contributors to Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning include individuals who are shaping the future of online learning with their innovative applications and investigations on the impact of issues such as openness, analytics, MOOCs, and social media. Building on work first published in Emerging Technologies in Distance Education, the contributors to this collection harness the dispersed knowledge in online education to provide a one-stop locale for work on emergent approaches in the field. Their conclusions will influence the adoption and success of these approaches to education and will enable researchers and practitioners to conceptualize, critique, and enhance their understanding of the foundations and applications of new technologies.