Università Roma Tre

The course introduces to the theoretical approaches and the main concepts of developmental and educational psychology. The first part aims to provide the student with the presentation of the discipline and of its methods of study, the nature of childhood, the biological and environmental factors in the development. The second part presents the different aspects of child development: social and relational, cognitive, linguistic and communicative, and emotional. The third part deals with instruction and education by referring to different theoretical perspectives. Finally, the course approaches some basic learning, such as representing, reading, writing and conceptualizing.

• Schaffer H. R., Psicologia dello sviluppo. Un’introduzione, Cortina.
• Aureli T., Bascelli E., Camodeca M, Di Sano S., Il bambino in classe, Carocci, 2008.
• Cacciamani S., Psicologia per l’insegnamento, Le Bussole, Carocci, 2002.

The texts may be changed before the beginning of the course.