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L'articolo prende spunto dalle recenti direttrici di indagine pedagogica italiana che sottolineano la centralità che ricopre, oggi, la questione della formazione interculturale degli insegnanti e della leadership educativa per accogliere le sfide lanciate dalla pluralità ed eterogeneità delle classi multiculturali, nonché dalle realtà dei contesti educativi a forte complessità sociale. La scuola rappresenta il luogo privilegiato di costruzione del dialogo interculturale, luogo centrale per la costruzione di destini formativi e spazio relazionale privilegiato per promuovere esperienze d'incontro delle differenze e affermare i principi etici dell'alterità e della convivenza democratica In tale ottica, verrà assunto il modello della teacher leadership in chiave inclusiva e interculturale quale prospettiva interpretativa in grado di fornire una nuova visione e significati di senso alla qualità dell'insegnamento e della formazione in servizio. Su tali premesse, si afferma la necessità di un maggiore investimento nella formazione degli insegnanti, affinché acquisiscano una leadership educativa fondata su conoscenze e competenze pedagogiche interculturali per promuovere processi di integrazione e di inclusione educativa di tutte le diversità. The concept and practice of intercultural and inclusive education have gained momentum in the recent decades. In this sense, the Italian school system has now acquired a multicultural trait while teacher education has become the key to support to the development of a quality inclusive education system. To welcome diversity of all learners, leadership practice is a crucial element in gearing education systems towards inclusive values. Also, the role of teachers in multicultural contexts is central in determining educational and didactical processes and practices based on the principles of an open and inclusive intercultural school. Within this context, this article focuses on the issue of teacher leadership and explores various interpretations and definitions within the literature. It examines the relationship between teacher leadership and intercultural and inclusive education. Finally, it calls for a "teacher leadership for inclusion" which can be seen as a "vital necessity" of any intercultural training course and professional development for teacher.

Developing a professional profile of the expert teacher is a complex operation that forces us to reflect on the aims and meanings we attribute to the whole teaching and learning process. In the complexity of our reality, teachers are required to have new and specific competences, methodological knowledge and an expertise to invest both in terms of the students' educational success and of their own professional training. The quality of the training systems is played on these two aspects, considering it through the perspective of the improvement rather than the accountability. In Italy, the legislation has tried to outline the figure of the teacher in terms of merit, but we can look for other viewpoints in the international literature on Educational Expertise and above all on Teacher Leadership. Leadership can become a tool to improve teaching processes through the dynamic training of the teacher's identity as a marker of his expertise. ; La stesura di un profilo professionale dell'insegnante esperto è un'operazione complessa che obbliga a riflettere sulle finalità e i significati che attribuiamo all'intero processo di insegnamento e apprendimento. Nella complessità della nostra realtà si richiede agli insegnanti competenze nuove e specifiche, conoscenze metodologiche e una expertise da investire sia ai fini del successo formativo degli alunni, che della propria formazione professionalizzante. Su questi due aspetti si gioca la qualità dei sistemi formativi, se la consideriamo attraverso la prospettiva dell'improvement piuttosto che dell'accountability. In Italia la normativa ha cercato di delineare la figura del docente in termini di merito, ma possiamo cercare altri sguardi nella letteraturainternazionale relativaall'Educational Expertise e soprattutto alla Teacher Leadership. La leadership può diventare un mezzo per migliorare i processi di insegnamento attraverso la formazione dinamica dell'identità del docente come stile marcatore della sua professionalità.

Further education (FE) has frequently been portrayed as «the Cinderella service» in relation to other phases; a «submerged space» operating below the surface and out of sight of mainstream educational policy in England. A contrasting view depicts a sector often considered a panacea for social concerns. FE is charged with supplying a skilled workforce and has been portrayed as a vehicle for enhancing economic development (DfEE 1998, Leitch 2006). Despite this it has repeatedly suffered funding cuts (Tickle 2014) alongside imposed political change. This research explores the stories of tutors and managers affected by managerial processes in English FE. The findings revealed the impact of corporatisation on leadership as well as on tutor and student agency and explored how professional collaboration enabled practitioners to challenge the prevailing systems-driven culture in ways which would help the sector step out of the shadows. ; "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License."

Eulogies delivered by Piero Bellani, Silvio Beretta, Pasquale Scaramozzino, & Franco Poma at a meeting at the U of Padua on 16 May 2006 commemorating Giovanni Manera, a professor of economic statistics at this institution who died on 1 January 2006, are printed. The speeches present Manera as a friend, colleague, teacher, successful businessman, & distinguished scholar. Personal reminiscences are mixed with narratives of facts from his entrepreneurial activities, public engagements, & academic curriculum vitae. Manera's scholarly accomplishments are presented, including his various publications & work in applied statistics & econometrics on behalf of many state & private institutions. His leadership of the Societa Italiana di Statistica (Italian Society of Statistics) & chairmanship of Associazione degli Industriali di Pavia (Padua Business Association) are praised. Z. Dubiel