A Journal of Open
and Democratic Sociology
sectors 14/C1 and 14/C2
The Lab’s Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on contemporary social issues since 1999. It is recognized by the ANVUR as an academic journal in Area 14 of the Italian university system. The journal promotes dialogue among social sciences and welcomes submissions from young researchers. The journal covers topics such as epistemology, methodology, and theory of social sciences. The Lab’s Quarterly is an open access journal that allows free access to all its content.
Since 1999
A Journal of Epistemology, Methodology, and Theory in the Social Sciences
The Lab’s Quarterly covers a wide range of topics in the social sciences, such as epistemology, methodology, and theory. The journal explores how human knowledge is produced and used in different contexts, how data is collected and analyzed in social research, and how sociological theories explain contemporary social phenomena.
New volume - 2024, XXVI, 2 (April-June)
Don Lorenzo Milani and His International Impact in Education and Beyond
Author: Peter Mayo Abstract In this article, I shall first demonstrate the extent of Don Milani’s and his students’ resonance in various contexts outside Italy, no-tably Spain, Malta, Turkey, Latin America and North America, Australia and the UK. I will…
The Searchers: Gramsci, Freire and Williams’ Contributions to Popular Education
Author: Emilio Lucio-Villegas Abstract Connections between education and Social Justice are very present in the long tradition of Popular Education. In this line, the three authors selected – coming from…
Paulo Freire e l’educazione alla giustizia sociale tra storicità e dialogo
Author: Emiliana Mangone Abstract For Paolo Freire, education is political action that aims to implement social justice. The intent was to build an educational practice (praxis) that would allow the…
Critical Education Between Social Justice and Dialogic Cultural Action
Author: Lucia Picarella Abstract Education considered as a critical social practice and as a tool for the formation of active citizenship can play a fundamental role because it is most…
La centralità dell’educazione nell’Agenda 2030: giustizia sociale e sostenibilità
Author: Francesca Cubeddu Abstract The article, in the first part, aims to analyse the centrality of educational processes within the 2030 Agenda from a general view of sociocultural changes through…
L’emancipazione dalle disuguaglianze: il contributo della digital literacy
Author: Elvira Martini Abstract Reducing inequalities is a decisive pathway to full participation in contemporary society and, given the changing nature of digital contexts, the reduction of digital inequalities takes…
Educazione e comunicazione per lo svilupposociale nelle comunità liminali. Problemi e prospettive di azione
Author: Andrea Volterrani Abstract Rooted in empirical studies conducted in liminal and marginal communities in southern Italy as part of a training project for managers of third sector organizations in…
Colombo Maddalena, Romito Marco, Vaira Massimiliano, Visentin Martina (2022, Eds), Education and Emergency in Italy. How the Education System Reacted to the First Wave of Covid-19
Author: Marianna Coppola Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic represented a real “general and deep crisis” that affected every sphere of human and social life, from the health system – the main…
Estrella Gualda (2020. Ed.), Teorías de la conspiración y discursos de odio en línea en la sociedad de las plataformas
Author: Miriam Matteo Abstract Entering into the study of today’s society implies recognising its salient traits that can be traced in terms of hypercomplexity (Dominici, 2011) such that, while on…
EDITORIAL
BOARD
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SCIENTIFIC
BOARD
Françoise
Albertini
(University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli)
Massimo
Ampola †
(University of Pisa)
Gabriele
Balbi
(University of Svizzera Italiana)
Matteo
Bortolini
(University of Padova)
Massimo
Cerulo
(University of Naples Federico II)
Franco
Crespi †
(University of Perugia)
Sabina
Curti
(University of Perugia)
Gabriele
De Angelis
(Nova Univeristy Lisbon)
Paolo
De Nardis
(Sapienza University of Rome)
Ricardo A.
Dello Buono
(Manhattan College New York)
Teresa
Grande
(Univesity of Calabria – Cosenza)
Roberta
Iannone
(Sapienza University of Roma)
Anna Giulia
Ingellis
(University of València)
Mariano
Longo
(University of Salento)
Domenico
Maddaloni
(University of Salerno)
Stefan
Müller-Doohm
(University of Oldenburg)
Gabriella
Paolucci
(University of Firenze)
Massimo
Pendenza
(University of Salerno)
Eleonora
Piromalli
(Sapienza University of Roma)
Walter
Privitera
(University of Milano – Bicocca)
Cirus
Rinaldi
(University of Palermo)
Antonio
Viedma Rojas
(UNED Madrid)
Vincenzo
Romania
(University of Padova)
Ambrogio
Santambrogio
(University of Perugia)
Simon
Susen
(City University of London)
Giovanni
Travaglino
(Royal Holloway University of London)