Luciano Erba: l'ultima intervista

This is the transcript of the last interview of Luciano Erba, held in February 2008, when the poet visited the Italian Department of the University of Reading as part of a UK tour to celebrate the publication of The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems, the English translation of his poetry by Peter Robinson, issued by Princeton University Press in 2006. The interview offered the opportunity to review Erba’s long career as a poet and assess the impact of some key cultural figures and events on his poetics

Tarabotti fra storia e storiografia: miti, fatti e alcune questioni più generali

This article presents the state of the arts about suor Arcangela Tarabotti, once "little less than a foot-note" well-known to scholars only (even if by Benedetto Croce, the most important of all XXth century Italian historians) and nowadays a literary case and a well-recognised proto-feminist, whose works are now all translated into English. The article examins the fortune (or misfortune) she enjoyed over the centuries, the reasons of her current international success, her life according to real documents and to her more fantasist accounts, the archives research and recent publications on her. It also explores the theoretical issues currently in place within Italian women's studies, moving from the 1970s' emphasis on witches, to the 1980s' passion for women saints, and the current obsession with queens and "winners", in order to prove that Arcangela Tarabotti was someonw unique who paid an enormous price for her bravery and outspokness, having been cloistered without a religious vocation.

Elevers läsvanor : En kvalitativ studie av fyra fordonselevers läsvanor

The following study was conducted at an upper secondary school in Sweden and attempts to explore the question of what influences male pupils’ reading habits. Many quantitative international studies, including PISA, PIRLS and IEA Reading Literacy, have sought to answer this question, but only partially succeeded due to the limitations of their methods. Therefore, this study seeks to explore this question in more depth using qualitative methods, including interviews and classroom observations, but also minor tests. Two facts which the previously mentioned international studies have found is that boys and particularly immigrant boys tend to have worse reading results than their counterparts. It is therefore the aim of this study to study four male students in upper secondary school; of which two are native Swedes and the other two are unaccompanied refugee children; one from Afghanistan and the other from Morocco. The findings of this study are as follows. Firstly, necessity was found to be the single most important factor for the reading habits of these four pupils; especially the two refugees. Both refugees learnt to read under harsh circumstances in madrassas in their respective home countries. Moreover, the Moroccan pupil learnt to speak and read Spanish fluently during his seven years as a homeless child. Furthermore, in the absence of necessity, interest was found to be decisive in determining the pupils’ reading habits. In addition to this, the study theorizes that an interest in reading generally arises before the ability to read and not vice versa. However, teachers can in fact affect their pupils’ reading habits even in upper secondary school.

Att utveckla läsförståelse - läsförståelsestrategier och metoder i skolan : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om fyra lärares syn på läsförståelseundervisning

Internationella studier, PIRLS 2011 och PISA 2012, visar svenska elevers försämrade kunskapsnivåer i läsförståelse. Skolan styrdokument från 2011, Lgr 11, uttrycker explicit undervisning av läsförståelsestrategier i ämnet svenska i grundskolans alla stadier. Den nedåtgående trenden har medfört att diskussionerna kring utvecklingen av läsförståelseundervisning har ökat. Läsforskare varnar för att lärarna lämnas att ensamma tolka hur de ska undervisa i lässtrategier som påverkar läsförståelsen. Våren 2014 lanserades läromedlet En läsande klass som är en privat satsning med ett långsiktigt mål att öka elevers läsförståelse och syftet att lyfta vikten av läsförståelse. Omfattande svensk forskning saknas dock på området. Syftet med denna studie var därför att undersöka hur undervisande lärare på låg- och mellanstadiet ser på sin läsförståelseundervisning och användandet av metoder och strategier för elever med god läsförståelse men även för elever som upplever hinder i sin läsförståelse. Undersökningen genomfördes med en kvalitativ metod med intervjuer som hade halvstrukturerad form. Fyra lärare, som alla undervisar i svenska och arbetar med läsförståelse i sin undervisning, intervjuades. Resultatet visade att samtliga lärare arbetar med läsförståelsestrategier på olika nivåer och att de använder materialet En läsande klass i olika utsträckning i sin undervisning. I resultatet kan man även utläsa att det finns ett behov hos lärare att få direktiv hur explicit läsförståelseundervisning ska bedrivas i skolan för att säkerställa kvalitet i sitt arbete med läsförståelse.

Mudanças na comunicação do profissional de atendimento ao consumidor no plano da estética laboral

Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul