The dynamics of training (and particularly those of higher education) seem today to undergo remarkable changes due to the profound economic and social transformations underway in contemporary society, from production to the labor market and to the world of professions and work. These changes reverberate in the mission of educational institutions and in all aspects of their modes of operation. The investigation into this area therefore constitutes a significant point of observation both on the changes in the institutional and operational profiles of subjects in higher education and, more generally, on education, as well as on the transformations of society itself, also in the light of policies and of the tools (eg evaluation) that it gives itself in the relationship with the world of education.

 

AFEV's objective is to develop research activities on the aforementioned transformations, with particular regard to the analysis of educational policies, training processes, the plurality of actors who are protagonists (teachers, administrative and managerial staff, students), the multiplicity of forms which can take over the learning process, the variety of organizational and controlling expressions that oversee it etc.

 

The methods of investigation will be mainly those of the analysis of the literature, of the statistical analysis, of the case studies and of the field survey, carried out through field operations and via the web.