Università Roma Tre

The teaching will focus on the main themes of educational research. The main contents of the course will be structured according to three macro temporal articulations:
1. Theory: Doing research in education; quantitative research and qualitative research: key characteristics and concepts; educational research strategies; the phases of research in education; the construction of the theoretical framework; from hypotheses to operational definitions of research; the collection, analysis and interpretation of data.
2. Theory: evaluation elements and functions; formative and summative evaluation tools; collection and analysis of data.
3. In-depth study: educational research in the field of museum education and scientific and heritage education in primary school context.

Vertecchi, B. (2003). Manuale della valutazione. Analisi degli apprendimenti e dei contesti. Milano: FrancoAngeli
Antonella Poce, Tecnologia critica, creatività e didattica della scienza, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2015.

The course intends to deepen a specific field of research methodology in experimental pedagogy which is the one related to action-research and research-intervention. It will start with action-research as formulated by its creator Kurt Lewin and then go on to review the main evolutions and declinations that it has taken on over time, which are collected under the vast and general hat of 'research-intervention'. The main methodological aspects that characterize the different models and their relation to socio-educational interventions that are oriented towards change will be explored.
They will be topics of the course:
- Research-action: Kurt Lewin's proposal and its evolutions
- epistemological and methodological issues of action-research
- some main search-intervention models
- the role of the researcher and forms of participation
- what social change means and how to trigger it
- complexity of educational research in 'natural' social processes
- problems and perspectives with respect to the validity of the data in the action-research/research-intervention
- social change and its educational implications
- action-research in informal, non-formal and formal educational contexts.

- Colucci-Colombo-Montali, La ricerca-intervento. Prospettive, ambiti e applicazioni, Il Mulino, Bologna 2008. Chapters: I-II-III-IV
- Colazzo-Manfreda, La comunità come risorsa. Epistemologia, metodologia e fenomenologia dell'intervento di comunità. Un approccio interdisciplinare, Armando editore, Roma 2019. Chapters: Capitolo Sesto.