The speed of technological transformations, the economic and cultural transition, and new migratory processes have profoundly disrupted the social structures and the 'life course' of the golden years of welfare, increasing the level of future turbulence, ambiguity, and uncertainty. The processes of reproducing old and new inequalities make the innovation of traditional intervention programs unavoidable. From this perspective, research activities analyze the dynamics of social change and the production of innovation in social policies and welfare systems in Italy and Europe, aiming to understand if and how innovation is possible, which actors contribute to determining it, how it develops, and under what circumstances and conditions it stabilizes over time. In particular, this line of research branches into two fields of inquiry: schools and socio-health services, welfare institutions facing a growing social demand that requires technological and organizational innovations.

Specific research fields concern educational policies and the functioning of school organizations, school inclusion and adult education, new learning technologies, and the digitalization processes of the national education system; the dynamics of care, training processes, and professional practices in socio-health services. Research activities aim to contribute to scientific research on these topics, but also to serve as a mechanism for facilitating and supporting innovation processes. In this view, this line of research develops through methodologies that produce usable knowledge for the support, activation, reflection, and consolidation of institutional, organizational, and individual innovation processes.

Gennaro Clemente

Anna Milione

Tiziana Tesauro

Evelina Carmen Sabatella

Sandro Turcio

Digital school
Care
Education
Innovation
Educational policies

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