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Il ruolo delle transizioni nella costruzione professionale di docenti, educatori e pedagogisti

  • Francesco Casotti

The essay reflects on the role of life transitions, understood as educational processes, in the professional development of educators and school professionals engaged in promoting pedagogical and educational care within pediatric hospital settings. Drawing on a literature review of the concept of transition, the paper integrates Dewey’s principle of continuity with insights from death education in the training of these professionals, who may be regarded as facilitators of significant biographical passages. This work also highlights how this proposed pathway emerges directly from the postgraduate course “La Scuola in Ospedale. Formare professionisti dell’educazione, della scuola, della cura”, which can be considered at once an educational process and a transition process.

  • Keywords:
  • Care; Continuity,
  • Death Education,
  • Professional Development,
  • Transitions,
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Francesco Casotti

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0007-0803-6568

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Chapter Title

Il ruolo delle transizioni nella costruzione professionale di docenti, educatori e pedagogisti

Authors

Francesco Casotti

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0943-4.11

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2026

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CC BY 4.0

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Book Title

Formare professionisti dell’educazione, della scuola, della cura

Book Subtitle

La Scuola in Ospedale e l’Istruzione Domiciliare

Editors

Vanna Boffo

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Number of Pages

208

Publication Year

2026

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© 2026 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0943-4

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979-12-215-0942-7

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979-12-215-0943-4

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Studies on Adult Learning and Education

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2704-596X

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2704-5781

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