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The reform of the education system undertaken by the 16th legislature in Italy seems to break away from the past by placing particular emphasis on formal school collaboration frameworks. In the present scenario the functional autonomy of schools is no longer exercised through the networking activities that were set up under the prior Regulation on School Autonomy, but it is veering towards different forms of organised collaboration. Thus recent national reforms on school autonomy seem to point towards a new interpretation of the concept of school autonomy whereby schools are encouraged "from the centre" to engage in leaner collaboration frameworks that also aim to prevent the sprawling of divergent regional reticular models. Significantly, under the revised Title V of the Constitution the school system consists today of a range of different regional systems and the pyramidal structure of the past has been replaced by web-like patterns governed through coordination and regulated by vertical and horizontal subsidiarity mechanisms. Therefore today the model of collaboration which appears best suited to reflect the complexity of territorial organization calls for the creation of networks that bring together schools and operators from outside the school sector within the regional system with the support of public institutions. Such initiatives are expected to translate into collaborative regional frameworks in which all the players contribute to the achievement of shared objectives.

The essay focuses on the different legislative rules which allow seriously ill patients to legally receive euthanasia or assisted suicide in Europe to examine the Italian legislation currently being approved on the same matter from a comparative legal perspective. The research about such an ethical theme involving several fundamental principles, like human dignity, life and solidarity, analyses the approaches of the Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourg and Spanish legal systems. The study will shed light on the essentiality of some preventive safeguards to support patients' autonomy in consenting or refusing an end-of-life treatment, in line with the Italian Constitutional Court suggestions.

This paper focuses upon the accounting culture, whose computational disciplines achieved their widest autonomy only at the end of the 20th century.

The influence of Gramsci in post-war Italian anthropology has mainly concerned the redefinition of the sphere of popular culture in terms of the hegemony-subalternity relationship. The 1950s "folklore debate", as it was termed, revolving around the ideas of Gramsci and De Martino, completely redefined the tradition of positivistic folklore studies. In the 1960s, then, a new discipline for the study of popular culture was founded on explicit Gramscian bases – "demology". In this paper, I examine these moments of the scientific debate in the light of the problem of political and cultural "populism": in other words, the problem of a certain degree of autonomy in the cultural productions of subaltern classes. I argue that demology, from its very beginnings, confused the autonomy of the subaltern with the autonomy of the academic discipline. Trying to isolate "real" folklore products from hegemonic ones and from mass culture, demologists lost sight of the historical dimension prevailing in both Gramsci and De Martino. In a sense, the current crisis of demology has mainly to do with the inability to deal with the problem of populism and its changing historical faces.