Italo Testa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104123 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Italo Testa |
| NOMBRES | Italo |
| APELLIDO | Testa |
| FIRMA | TESTA I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Parma |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5232-6254 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Exploring STEM identity profiles among undergraduate STEM students and their relationships with gender, discipline, persistence and engagement
Research has thoroughly demonstrated that the intention to pursue and persist in a Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM)-related career is influenced by the extent to which students perceive themselves as a STEM person, namely their STEM identity. However, previous studies have mainly used variable-centered approaches to explore relationships between identity and its precursors, which might hide nontrivial differences amongst subgroup…
The effects of perceived relevance of participation in science-oriented out-of-school time activities on university students’ performance and persistence
Literature has shown that Out-of-School-Time (OST) activities are important experiences for developing interest in science careers. However, while participation in science-oriented OST activities has become widespread in secondary education, their role on subsequent undergraduate career remains largely underexplored. In this longitudinal study, we explored how the perceived relevance of the participation in science-oriented OST-activities affects…
Investigating changes in university students’ academic engagement and its relationships with motivation and performance
Academic engagement (AE) has been widely recognized as a key determinant to address key challenges in the academic context as the student persistence and success at university. However, previous studies have mostly measured AE using cross-sectional data, so its development over time is still unexplored. To address this research gap, we involved 209 first‐year STEM undergraduates (54% female) from April–May 2019 ( t 0) to October–November 2021 ( t…
Exploring students’ mental models of the greenhouse effect through factor and cluster analysis of drawings
A latent profile analysis of students’ attitudes towards astronomy across grades 9–13
Astronomy is seen as a "gateway" science, inspiring students to pursue Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) related careers. However, there is little evidence that students' attitudes towards astronomy remain stable over time. By integrating Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), we identified three dimensions of students' attitudes towards astronomy - intrinsic, which refers to the enjoyment of studyi…
Introduction
Early American pragmatism was an attempt to question the philosophical conceptions of the human being inherited from modern European philosophy. This revision of the philosophical canon was deeply tied to the social, cultural, technological, and political changes that shook the structures of modern societies in the 19th century, disclosing unforeseen potentialities, unregulated powers, as well as social feelings of alienation, anonymity, and repr…
A new measure for the assessment of the university engagement
Despite the growing interest on the notion of academic engagement (AE) and its relevance for students’ success, a few valid and reliable instruments on AE have been developed. Moreover, most of the available measures consider AE as a student’s trait rather than a relational and situated dynamic process. This study presents the development and validation of a new instrument, the SInAPSi Academic Engagement Scale (SAES), which was developed within …
The relationships between freshmen’s accuracy of self-evaluation and the likelihood of succeeding in chemistry and physics exams in two STEM undergraduate courses
In this longitudinal study, we investigate how demographic, cognitive and meta-cognitive variables affect students’ success in chemistry and physics exams in two Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics undergraduate courses, biology and engineering. Independent variables include high school final examination performance, chemistry and physics marks, self-efficacy and accuracy of self-evaluation, namely the difference between the estimation of …
Use of a semiotic-cultural perspective for identifying patterns in students’ drawings about seasonal changes
In this study, we propose to analyse students’ drawings using the Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT), a socio-cultural psychological model that integrates semiotics with dynamic systems theory. According to the SCPT framework, students-generated drawings can be analysed in terms of generalised meanings, i.e., implicit assumptions about the represented content. We applied SCPT to identify a set of generalised meanings about seasonal cha…
High School Students’ Performances in Transitions between Different Representations of Linear Relationships in Mathematics and Physics
This study involved 643 high school students to assess their performance in using different representations of linear functions—graphs, tables, and algebraic relationships—in mathematics and kinematics. The results show that students encounter greater difficulties when they have to interpret representations involving algebraic relations in mathematics. Furthermore, it is shown how the ability to switch from one type of representation to another i…
Development and validation of an instrument to measure students’ engagement and participation in science activities through factor analysis and Rasch analysis
In this study, we present a new instrument, the Participation and Engagement Scale (PES), for the evaluation of the students’ involvement in STEM-oriented activities. The instrument was administered to about 1000 secondary school students who participated in the activities of the Italian Piano Nazionale Lauree Scientifiche in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The activities were carried out in a remote modality due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Thr…
Patterns of Italian high school and university students’ attitudes towards physics
The purpose of this study was to analyse Italian high school and university students’ attitudes towards physics using the Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT). In the SCPT framework, attitudes represent how individuals interpret their experience through the mediation of generalized meaning with which they are identified. A view-of-physics questionnaire was used as an instrument to collect data with 1603 high school and university student…
Expressive Embodiment
In this paper I tackle the normative re-appropriation of the legacy of Charles Taylor's expressivist understanding of Hegel's theory of action. I argue that a normative understanding of Hegel's expressivist notion of agency by interpreters such as Robert Pippin, Terry Pinkard, Michael Quante and Robert Brandom, has been obtained at the price of losing sight of the principle of embodiment and of its relevance for our and Hegel's understanding of s…
Life and the two-fold structure of domination
In this article, the master-servant figure in the Phenomenology of Spirit is analyzed against the background of Hegel's ontology of life as an embodied process. It is therefore argued that the theme of this figure is the question of domination in general, understood as a social relationship of subjection that can take on different historical configurations. Domination is understood as a relationship of disparity of status between dominant and dom…
Habits
This book evaluates the potential of the pragmatist notion of habit possesses to influence current debates at the crossroads between philosophy, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and social theory. It deals with the different aspects of the pragmatic turn involved in 4E cognitive science and traces back the roots of such a pragmatic turn to both classical and contemporary pragmatism. Written by renowned philosophers, cognitive scientists, neuros…
Immanent Critique of Capitalism as a Form of Life
An immanent critique of capitalism as a form of life: this is one of the crucial points of the new critical theory proposed by Rahel Jaeggi, and it is to this conceptual point, which includes vario
How are Bundles of Social Practices Constituted? Jaeggi, Social Ontology, and the Jargon of Normativity
In this paper, I analyse Rahel Jaeggi’s socio-ontological account of forms of life. I show that her framework is a two-sided one, since it involves an understanding of forms of life both as inert bundles of practices and as having a normative structure. Here I argue that this approach is based on an a priori argument which assumes normativity as the condition of intelligibility of social criticism. I show that the intimate tension between these t…
Dewey, Second Nature, Social Criticism, and the Hegelian Heritage
Dewey’s notion of second nature is strictly connected with that of habit. I reconstruct the Hegelian heritage of this model and argue that habit qua second nature is understood by Dewey as a something which encompasses both the subjective and the objective dimension – individual dispositions and features of the objective natural and social environment. Secondly, the notion of habit qua second nature is used by Dewey both in a descriptive and in a…
Reshaping the geopolitics of critical theory
Dominant Patterns in Associated Living
In this paper I focus on the notion of “dominant patterns”, as revealed by the recently discovered typescript of what we can assume to be Dewey’s fragmentary and incomplete preliminary notes for the Lecture Series on Social and Political Philosophy. I will show that the way “dominant patterns” is dealt with in the notes is not only consistent with the conceptual content of the whole series of the Lectures in China as published by R. W. Clopton an…
Recognition as Passive Power
"I that is We, We that is I." Perspectives on Contemporary Hegel
In "I that is We, We that is I", an international group of philosophers explore the many facets of Hegel’s formula which expresses the recognitive and social structures of human life. The book offers a guiding thread for the reconstruction of crucial motifs of contemporary thought such as the socio-ontological paradigm; the action-theoretical model in moral and social philosophy; the question of naturalism; and the reassessment of the relevance o…
Ontology of the False State
In this paper I will argue that critical theory needs to make its socio-ontological commitments explicit, whilst on the other hand I will posit that contemporary social ontology needs to amend its formalistic approach by embodying a critical theory perspective. In the first part of my paper I will discuss how the question was posed in Horkheimer's essays of the 1930s, which leave open two options: (1) a constructive inclusion of social ontology w…
How does Recognition Emerge from Nature? The Genesis of Consciousness in Hegel’s Jena Writings
The paper proposes a reconstruction of some fragments of Hegel’s Jena manuscripts concerning the natural genesis of recognitive spiritual consciousness. On this basis it will be argued that recognition has a foothold in nature. As a consequence, recognition should not be understood as a bootstrapping process, that is, as a self-positing and self-justifying normative social phenomenon, intelligible within itself and independently of anything exter…
La natura del riconoscimento
Hegelian Pragmatism and Social Emancipation
Dominant Patterns in Associated Living
In this paper I focus on the notion of “dominant patterns”, as revealed by the recently discovered typescript of what we can assume to be Dewey’s fragmentary and incomplete preliminary notes for the Lecture Series on Social and Political Philosophy. I will show that the way “dominant patterns” is dealt with in the notes is not only consistent with the conceptual content of the whole series of the Lectures in China as published by R. W. Clopton an…
Ontology of the False State
In this paper I will argue that critical theory needs to make its socio-ontological commitments explicit, whilst on the other hand I will posit that contemporary social ontology needs to amend its formalistic approach by embodying a critical theory perspective. In the first part of my paper I will discuss how the question was posed in Horkheimer's essays of the 1930s, which leave open two options: (1) a constructive inclusion of social ontology w…
Second Nature and Recognition
In this article I intend to show the strict relation between the notions of "second nature" and "recognition". To do so I begin with a problem (circularity) proper to the theory of Hegelian and post-Hegelian Anerkennung. The solution strategy I propose is significant also in terms of bringing into focus the problems connected with a notion of "space of reasons" that stems from the Hegelian concept of "Spirit". I thus broach the notion of "second …
Recognition as Passive Power
Criticism from within nature
I tackle the definition of the relation between first and second nature while examining some problems with McDowell's conception. This, in the first place, will bring out the need to extend the notion of second nature to the social dimension, understanding it not just as `inner' second nature — individual mind — but also as `outer' second nature — objective spirit. In the second place the dialectical connection between these two notions of second…
How are Bundles of Social Practices Constituted? Jaeggi, Social Ontology, and the Jargon of Normativity
In this paper, I analyse Rahel Jaeggi’s socio-ontological account of forms of life. I show that her framework is a two-sided one, since it involves an understanding of forms of life both as inert bundles of practices and as having a normative structure. Here I argue that this approach is based on an a priori argument which assumes normativity as the condition of intelligibility of social criticism. I show that the intimate tension between these t…
Dewey, Second Nature, Social Criticism, and the Hegelian Heritage
Dewey’s notion of second nature is strictly connected with that of habit. I reconstruct the Hegelian heritage of this model and argue that habit qua second nature is understood by Dewey as a something which encompasses both the subjective and the objective dimension – individual dispositions and features of the objective natural and social environment. Secondly, the notion of habit qua second nature is used by Dewey both in a descriptive and in a…
How does Recognition Emerge from Nature? The Genesis of Consciousness in Hegel’s Jena Writings
The paper proposes a reconstruction of some fragments of Hegel’s Jena manuscripts concerning the natural genesis of recognitive spiritual consciousness. On this basis it will be argued that recognition has a foothold in nature. As a consequence, recognition should not be understood as a bootstrapping process, that is, as a self-positing and self-justifying normative social phenomenon, intelligible within itself and independently of anything exter…
Intersubjetividade, natureza e sentimentos morais
The text raises the question of the conditions for the possibility of intersubjectivity in the theory of recognition. An analysis of the theory of recognition formulated by Axel Honneth shows how the conflict determined by moral motivations relativizes the Habermasian premise of the linguistic understanding and brings the normative dimension back to social theory. The author returns to the pages of the Encyclopedia of Hegel to recover the objecti…
Hegel critico e scettico
Hegelian Pragmatism and Social Emancipation
Criticism from within nature
I tackle the definition of the relation between first and second nature while examining some problems with McDowell's conception. This, in the first place, will bring out the need to extend the notion of second nature to the social dimension, understanding it not just as `inner' second nature — individual mind — but also as `outer' second nature — objective spirit. In the second place the dialectical connection between these two notions of second…
Intersubjetividade, natureza e sentimentos morais
The text raises the question of the conditions for the possibility of intersubjectivity in the theory of recognition. An analysis of the theory of recognition formulated by Axel Honneth shows how the conflict determined by moral motivations relativizes the Habermasian premise of the linguistic understanding and brings the normative dimension back to social theory. The author returns to the pages of the Encyclopedia of Hegel to recover the objecti…
Second Nature and Recognition
In this article I intend to show the strict relation between the notions of "second nature" and "recognition". To do so I begin with a problem (circularity) proper to the theory of Hegelian and post-Hegelian Anerkennung. The solution strategy I propose is significant also in terms of bringing into focus the problems connected with a notion of "space of reasons" that stems from the Hegelian concept of "Spirit". I thus broach the notion of "second …
La natura del riconoscimento
How does Recognition Emerge from Nature? The Genesis of Consciousness in Hegel’s Jena Writings
The paper proposes a reconstruction of some fragments of Hegel’s Jena manuscripts concerning the natural genesis of recognitive spiritual consciousness. On this basis it will be argued that recognition has a foothold in nature. As a consequence, recognition should not be understood as a bootstrapping process, that is, as a self-positing and self-justifying normative social phenomenon, intelligible within itself and independently of anything exter…
Ontology of the False State
In this paper I will argue that critical theory needs to make its socio-ontological commitments explicit, whilst on the other hand I will posit that contemporary social ontology needs to amend its formalistic approach by embodying a critical theory perspective. In the first part of my paper I will discuss how the question was posed in Horkheimer's essays of the 1930s, which leave open two options: (1) a constructive inclusion of social ontology w…
"I that is We, We that is I." Perspectives on Contemporary Hegel
In "I that is We, We that is I", an international group of philosophers explore the many facets of Hegel’s formula which expresses the recognitive and social structures of human life. The book offers a guiding thread for the reconstruction of crucial motifs of contemporary thought such as the socio-ontological paradigm; the action-theoretical model in moral and social philosophy; the question of naturalism; and the reassessment of the relevance o…
Dewey, Second Nature, Social Criticism, and the Hegelian Heritage
Dewey’s notion of second nature is strictly connected with that of habit. I reconstruct the Hegelian heritage of this model and argue that habit qua second nature is understood by Dewey as a something which encompasses both the subjective and the objective dimension – individual dispositions and features of the objective natural and social environment. Secondly, the notion of habit qua second nature is used by Dewey both in a descriptive and in a…
Reshaping the geopolitics of critical theory
Dominant Patterns in Associated Living
In this paper I focus on the notion of “dominant patterns”, as revealed by the recently discovered typescript of what we can assume to be Dewey’s fragmentary and incomplete preliminary notes for the Lecture Series on Social and Political Philosophy. I will show that the way “dominant patterns” is dealt with in the notes is not only consistent with the conceptual content of the whole series of the Lectures in China as published by R. W. Clopton an…
Recognition as Passive Power
How are Bundles of Social Practices Constituted? Jaeggi, Social Ontology, and the Jargon of Normativity
In this paper, I analyse Rahel Jaeggi’s socio-ontological account of forms of life. I show that her framework is a two-sided one, since it involves an understanding of forms of life both as inert bundles of practices and as having a normative structure. Here I argue that this approach is based on an a priori argument which assumes normativity as the condition of intelligibility of social criticism. I show that the intimate tension between these t…
Habits
This book evaluates the potential of the pragmatist notion of habit possesses to influence current debates at the crossroads between philosophy, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and social theory. It deals with the different aspects of the pragmatic turn involved in 4E cognitive science and traces back the roots of such a pragmatic turn to both classical and contemporary pragmatism. Written by renowned philosophers, cognitive scientists, neuros…
Immanent Critique of Capitalism as a Form of Life
An immanent critique of capitalism as a form of life: this is one of the crucial points of the new critical theory proposed by Rahel Jaeggi, and it is to this conceptual point, which includes vario
Expressive Embodiment
In this paper I tackle the normative re-appropriation of the legacy of Charles Taylor's expressivist understanding of Hegel's theory of action. I argue that a normative understanding of Hegel's expressivist notion of agency by interpreters such as Robert Pippin, Terry Pinkard, Michael Quante and Robert Brandom, has been obtained at the price of losing sight of the principle of embodiment and of its relevance for our and Hegel's understanding of s…
Life and the two-fold structure of domination
In this article, the master-servant figure in the Phenomenology of Spirit is analyzed against the background of Hegel's ontology of life as an embodied process. It is therefore argued that the theme of this figure is the question of domination in general, understood as a social relationship of subjection that can take on different historical configurations. Domination is understood as a relationship of disparity of status between dominant and dom…
High School Students’ Performances in Transitions between Different Representations of Linear Relationships in Mathematics and Physics
This study involved 643 high school students to assess their performance in using different representations of linear functions—graphs, tables, and algebraic relationships—in mathematics and kinematics. The results show that students encounter greater difficulties when they have to interpret representations involving algebraic relations in mathematics. Furthermore, it is shown how the ability to switch from one type of representation to another i…
Development and validation of an instrument to measure students’ engagement and participation in science activities through factor analysis and Rasch analysis
In this study, we present a new instrument, the Participation and Engagement Scale (PES), for the evaluation of the students’ involvement in STEM-oriented activities. The instrument was administered to about 1000 secondary school students who participated in the activities of the Italian Piano Nazionale Lauree Scientifiche in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The activities were carried out in a remote modality due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Thr…
Patterns of Italian high school and university students’ attitudes towards physics
The purpose of this study was to analyse Italian high school and university students’ attitudes towards physics using the Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT). In the SCPT framework, attitudes represent how individuals interpret their experience through the mediation of generalized meaning with which they are identified. A view-of-physics questionnaire was used as an instrument to collect data with 1603 high school and university student…
A new measure for the assessment of the university engagement
Despite the growing interest on the notion of academic engagement (AE) and its relevance for students’ success, a few valid and reliable instruments on AE have been developed. Moreover, most of the available measures consider AE as a student’s trait rather than a relational and situated dynamic process. This study presents the development and validation of a new instrument, the SInAPSi Academic Engagement Scale (SAES), which was developed within …
The relationships between freshmen’s accuracy of self-evaluation and the likelihood of succeeding in chemistry and physics exams in two STEM undergraduate courses
In this longitudinal study, we investigate how demographic, cognitive and meta-cognitive variables affect students’ success in chemistry and physics exams in two Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics undergraduate courses, biology and engineering. Independent variables include high school final examination performance, chemistry and physics marks, self-efficacy and accuracy of self-evaluation, namely the difference between the estimation of …
Use of a semiotic-cultural perspective for identifying patterns in students’ drawings about seasonal changes
In this study, we propose to analyse students’ drawings using the Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT), a socio-cultural psychological model that integrates semiotics with dynamic systems theory. According to the SCPT framework, students-generated drawings can be analysed in terms of generalised meanings, i.e., implicit assumptions about the represented content. We applied SCPT to identify a set of generalised meanings about seasonal cha…
A latent profile analysis of students’ attitudes towards astronomy across grades 9–13
Astronomy is seen as a "gateway" science, inspiring students to pursue Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) related careers. However, there is little evidence that students' attitudes towards astronomy remain stable over time. By integrating Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), we identified three dimensions of students' attitudes towards astronomy - intrinsic, which refers to the enjoyment of studyi…
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