The improvement of the expressive and learning abilities of the adult

The researches and the experimentations carried out, in the learning field, by the IRPI Institute during the last years, started out initially in the field of geoethics, have allowed to set up principles and didactic tools that offer today practical and usable tools to significantly improve, in a relatively short period of time, the expressive, learning and assimilation capacities of students and adults.
The researches have been originally finalized to discover how to improve the expressive and communication abilities of the students who were preparing their degree thesis in our Institute. Many of them, in fact, had been found lacking these abilities. During our researches, however, we realized the strict correlation between expressive abilities and learning and meta-cognitive capacities and so the focus of our investigations has definitely included also these latter.

The experimentations, carried out in collaboration with the Order of Engineers of the province of Turin (Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Torino, OIT) and the multidisciplinary research team SaperCapire, have allowed to open a door in the thought structures of our students, identifying the foundations above which their knowledge and their logic and dialectic capacities were leaning. We have thus been able to ascertain how these foundations were in many cases fragile and inconsistent and required a significant restructuring and strengthening work. This fragility was found first among the students who attended the Institute and subsequently, not without surprise, even among the adult public. The experimental courses that we have developed, in fact, have also been held for the professionals enrolled in the Order of Engineers of the province of Turin, as part of the educational offer for obtaining the professional training credits required by law: the attention received and the results obtained were extremely positive.

The metacognitive principles and exercises developed during the researches have generated in the public that participated in the experiments, a renewed intellectual curiosity and a renewed interest in knowledge and culture. On the basis of the evidences collected, the courses allowed participants to gain a greater definition of thought, meant in a photographic sense, which was reflected in an increased sharpness and precision of expression. This has resulted in an enhanced capacity for understanding and assimilating data, that has made the participants able to strip more easily the objects of knowledge of the mantle of impenetrability and incomprehensibility that in many cases envelops them.
The potential applications and the usefulness of the developed tools, an effective toolbox useful to disrupt the doors to any kind of knowledge and, at the same time, to improve expressive and learning skills, have appeared clear from the beginning. By teaching and applying them in schools and universities, in particular, they can improve student performances and make it easier to pursue one of our Institute most important missions: the dissemination of information and knowledge on natural hazards.

In general, their systematic use in school and professional training will facilitate and increase the dissemination of knowledge, made easier by the improvement of the receptive capacities of both students and the adult population.

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