7° Seminario Internazionale di Studi sulla Ricerca Empirica in Educazione: «Istruzione basata su evidenze scientifiche: teoria e pratica educativa»

Abstract

The 7th scientific seminar, held October 20, 2017, as usually, was organized by the Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies and was devoted to the issue «Evidence Based Education: Theories and Practice». The speakers have appreciated for the opportunity offered by the seminar to reflect about the school as a place that is not to be seen as a mere mirror of contingent political and social reality, but as a context in which, through educational experiments, it is possible to modify stereotyped and prejudicial cultural forms with the aim of teaching to young people some social values such as solidarity, security, development and tolerance. In particular, the leitmotiv of the relationship concerned the possibility for researchers to make use of meta-analysis, based on didactic experiences carried out in large numbers of educational contexts, to identify which didactic methodologies can best applied in the schools in which are manifested the needs that these strategies have proved to be able to meet. In the discussion emerged different opinions: the use of meta-analysis is to be considered a winning strategy to set up accurate protocols that have their basis on a solid chance of good success but, at the same time, meta-analysis are based on very different school context and this can be a limit to overcome by adapting the results of EBE research to different contextual conditions.