GENERAL EDUCATION
(objectives)
General objectives and competencies in output, defined as knowledge, skills, abilities (Dublin descriptors) Students must show organic knowledge, coherently organized, in the field of fundamental theoretical frameworks of the discipline (the main pedagogical theories and approaches with particular reference to the contemporaneity). Students must show knowledge of the international debate on general education regarding in particular the analysis of complex society and post-modernity and the new questions posed to education by European policies. Knowledge and understanding Problematizations understanding of the key issues (the relationship between authority and freedom, the central position of the student, denotative characteristics of the “growth-oriented person” process, opposing theoretical approaches in the interpretation of adults training (such as personalism, the hermeneutics, etc..), the role of society – in its several systems and interaction processes – with the spheres of teaching, in reference to the scenarios and the interpretive perspectives of the late modernity (capability approach and human development).
Applying knowledge and understanding Students must show ability to apply their knowledge and understanding with reference to a professional approach, emphasizing problem solving skills, knowing how to communicate issues, ideas and operating approaches, even dealing with specific study areas (family, micro-and macro-systems, etc.). Students will apply the acquired knowledge to reading texts, to the description and interpretation of multi-cultural contexts, to the analysis of projects and initiatives which promote multicultural societies and to solve problems arising in intercultural relations. Making judgments Students should be able to argue autonomously about key issues of general education with reference to interpretive perspectives of the contemporary society. Communication skills Students will be able to develop various forms of (oral and written) Communication in group teaching situations. Learning skills Students will also be able to develop learning skills (information gathering and reliable web and bibliographic sources search), in view of further discu
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Code
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22901848 |
Language
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ITA |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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6
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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M-PED/01
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Contact Hours
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36
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Type of Activity
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Basic compulsory activities
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Teacher
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ALESSANDRINI GIUDITTA
(syllabus)
Pedagogical Innovation in a knowledge society: policies of cooperation and new educational and training scenarios The course aims to outline the conceptual framework for analysis and reflection on innovation and development in the “knowledge society”. It will provide Students with the methodological tools to read the complexity of educational development and training. The general education can be identified as the discipline of the individual and collective development, more than any other, communicating with the sociology and economics, can develop possible responses and highlight problematic paradoxical aspects of innovation. The course will focus on the size and theoretical reflection on the socio-educational scenarios to present in particular the following approaches: educational and training policies for Economic Cooperation and Development (with regard to the action of international organizations such as UNESCO, etc.); scenarios of lifelong learning in Europe and new applications for education/training; the educational dimensions of the approach to habitat capability in social and educational. The course is divided into three modules of 10 hours each for a total of 30 hours. Within each module there will be a Planning Training workshop on issues related to the module itself. During the workshop a work on collaborative design will be started and it will form part of the exam.
Area 1 • Fundamental paradigms of thinking about teaching: the theoretical frameworks from personalism to a phenomenological approach • Planning Training Workshop: “Lines of development for an educational/training project” • Focus on the subject and drafting of the macro-project
Area 2 • The Trainer as an “educator” • The foundations of the approach Nussbaum: capabilities and educational welfare • Planning Training Workshop: “The capability approach in adult education” • Methodological approaches to training: classroom research
Area 3 • The European scenarios of life long learning and new training needs • Planning Training Workshop “Website references of European organizations for education and internet surfing aiming at setting up projects”
• Fundamental paradigms of thinking about teaching: the theoretical frameworks from personalism to a phenomenological approach • Planning Training Workshop: “Lines of development for an educational/training project” • Focus on the subject and drafting of the macro-project
Area 2 • The Trainer as an “educator” • The foundations of the approach Nussbaum: capabilities and educational welfare • Planning Training Workshop: “The capability approach in adult education” • Methodological approaches to training: classroom research
Area 3 • The European scenarios of life long learning and new training needs • Planning Training Workshop “Website references of European organizations for education and internet surfing aiming at setting up projects”
(reference books)
Reference books • Alessandrini G. (2003), Pedagogia Sociale, Carocci, Roma • Alessandrini G. (2014), La “pedagogia” di Martha Nussbaum. Approccio alle capacità e sfide educative, Franco Angeli, Milano
Books of your choice (One book): • Alessandrini G., D’Agnese V. (2013), L’apprendimento permanente e lo sviluppo del territorio, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce • Alessandrini G. (a cura di), Canoni formativi nella pratica, Carocci, Roma 2015 (in corso di pubblicazione) • Nussbaum M.C. (2010), Non per profitto. Perché le democrazie hanno bisogno della cultura umanistica, Il Mulino, Bologna
Other information: The course includes the development of a Project Work on issues of the Course, which replaces the Course attendance Teaching Mode: Traditional Frequency: optional but recommended Evaluation: Oral examination Semester: I (October-December 2015) Information for foreign students: Foreign Students may substitute the recommended books with others, after meeting with the Professor.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/10/2015 to 20/12/2015 |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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