Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cohen -- Propter Conversationem Diversarum Gentium : Migrating Words and -- Merchants in Medieval Pisa / Stefania Gialdroni -- ʻMigrating Seamen, Migrating Laws'? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Regole statutarie e elementi costruttivi / Alberto Magnaghi -- Per una ridefìnizione dello spazio pubblico nel territorio intermedio della bioregione urbana / Daniela Poli -- Il progetto del territorio agrourbano per una conversione economica bioregionale / David Fanfani -- Pianificazione paesaggistica e bioregione: dalle regole statutarie alle norme figurate / Daniela Poli -- Parte seconda Progetti locali verso una Toscana di bioregioni urbane -- Un approccio bioregionalista ai progetti partecipati a scala locale / Adalgisa Rubino -- Nuovi standard territorialisti per la bioregione urbana / Giovanni Ruffini -- Bioregione e identità urbana: le configurazioni spaziali di Cecina (LI) / Claudio Saragosa -- Ferrovie locali e sistemi di mobilità dolce per il progetto di bioregione urbana / Andrea Saladini -- Regole coevolutive strutturanti e progetti per i paesagg rurali toscani / Maria Rita Gisotti -- Il progetto del cibo nella Provincia di Pisa: un "elemento costruttivo" dello spazio pubblico della bioregione / Gianluca Brunori, Francesco Di Iacovo, Silvia Innocenti -- Riferimenti bibliografici -- Profili degli autori…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Two levels of agency: the negotiation of intergenerational support in Chinese families -- Research developments in social policy analysis -- The impact of COVID-19 on the residential care sector for the elderly: employment and care regimes in the European comparative perspective -- Curating Spaces of Hope: exploring the potential for Faith Based Organisations in uncertain times -- The ‘Innovative Job Agency’: an experiment in renewing local social services in Pisa (Italy) -- Inequality within equalities: an institutionalist examination of equalities interest groups engagement in a third sector-government partnership -- Policy developments -- Homelessness and the coronavirus -- A Cultural Political Economy case study of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund: critiquing welfare policy in the reproduction of subordination and inequality -- Unmet need, epistemic injustice and early death: how social policy for Autistic adults in England and Wales fails to slay Beveridge’s Five Giants -- Index…”

“…This paper examines how particular teaching and learning strategies are related to student performance on specific PISA test questions, particularly mathematics questions. …”

“…During the last ten years, school accountability has become a critical topic, triggered by the results of international benchmarks such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). …”

“…We must explore the world around us in a thoughtful way, acquire knowledge about unknown situations efficiently, and apply new and existing knowledge creatively The Nature of Problem Solving presents the background and the main ideas behind the development of the PISA 2012 assessment of problem solving, as well as results from research collaborations that originated within the group of experts who guided the development of this assessment. …”

“…It also estimates the effect of academic abilities, measured by PISA math and reading scores, on such transitions. …”

“…This book uses PISA data to show that a substantial proportion of students in OECD countries now attend schools that have high degrees of autonomy in different areas of decision making. …”

“…The work was discussed, after the introduction by the Magnificent Rector Augusto Marinelli, by historians Gian Paolo Brizzi and Paolo Prodi of the University of Bologna, Romano Paolo Coppini of the University of Pisa, and by professors Francesco Gurrieri and Sandro Rogari. …”

“…This book is the first volume of a collection of articles devoted to the tourist guide as a meeting place between lexicon and images of cultural heritage, a work resulting from the conference which took place on June 11 and 12, 2015 in Pisa and Florence, organized by the Research Unit Lessico dei Beni Culturali. …”

“…A process begun in Pisa, Italy in April of 2016 during a workshop on political theory in the Anthropocene, The Wind ~ An Unruly Living is a philosophical exercise (askêsis, translated, following Ignatius of Loyola, as “spiritual exercise”). …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bufalini, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Medico-Chirurgical Schools of Completion and Perfection of the University of Pisa in Florence -- A Practical and Historical Treatise on Lithotrity -- Memoirs of the Society of Surgery of Paris -- Mind and Matter, Illustrated by Considerations on Hereditary Insanity, and the Influence of Temperament in the Development of the Passions -- Manual of Morbid Anatomy -- Rare and Remarkable Animals of Scotland, Represented from Living Subjects; with Practical Observations on Their Nature -- On the Causes and Treatment of Abortion and Sterility: Being the Result of an Extended Practical Inquiry into the Physiological and Morbid Conditions of the Uterus, with Reference Especially to Leucorrhœal Affections and the Diseases of Menstruation -- Lectures on the Physical Phenomena of Living Beings -- Researches into the Pathology and Treatment of the Asiatic or Algide Cholera -- A Guide to the Examination of the Urine in Health and Disease, for the Use of Students -- Principles of Physics and Meteorology -- An Essay on the Use and Abuse of Restraint in the Management of the Insane, Including Some Remarks on the Origin and Nature of Their Diseases. …”

“…Difficulties related to this shift were noticed early on and then confirmed by international surveys, in particular PISA, which revealed that student performance was deteriorating while the gap increased between and top- and bottom-performers. …”

“…Four top performers on the 2009 PISA assessment – Canada, Finland, Japan, and Korea – show the potential of this approach. …”

“…Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that educational performance remains static, uneven and strongly related to parents’ income and background. …”