Università Roma Tre

The course has the fundamental objective of introducing students to the knowledge of the main philosophical issues typical of modern and contemporary society, with particular attention to the relationship between philosophy, culture and education. Specifically, the course aims to promote students' awareness of the identity and genesis of concepts and constructs that have had and have particular relevance in the educational and business environment and which concern man and his relationship with the world and with society.

The course aims to promote the following specific training objectives in the student:
- know how to distinguish the main philosophical currents, typical of modern and contemporary culture;
- know how to use the language of philosophy appropriately;
- know how to recognize the role of training within society and the importance of philosophy within it;
- know how to produce a critical and reasoned reading of a text, an event or a tendency typical of a culture;
- know how to identify emerging or underlying philosophical doctrines within socio-cultural phenomena;
- knowing how to recognize different levels of relationship between philosophy and self-building;
- knowing how to move in a multidisciplinary context;
- know how to organize a speech using philosophical reading tools of social reality.

Knowledge and understanding.
- knowledge of the main lines of the modern and contemporary philosophical debate and its relations with the other educational sciences;
- ability to distinguish and compare between different lines of cultural development, according to the different philosophical matrices.
- recognition of the relationship between philosophy and training.

Applying knowledge and understanding.
- Knowledge and understanding of the concepts and theories provided by the course;
- ability to recognize the fundamental phases and matrices of contemporary culture;

Making judgments.
- To be able to identify different reading keys of the different cultural phenomena;
- To be able to recognize the fundamental cultural lines that animate contemporary society;
- To be able to identify the basis of self-building and education practices, and cultural influences on them.

Communication skills
- Ability to read and interpret human and social phenomena with greater philosophical competence;
- ability to know how to communicate with congruent philosophical knowledge tools;
- ability to speak publicly about issues related to philosophy and its relationship with society;
- knowing how to create an educational activity by recognizing theoretical assumptions and philosophical contents

Learning skills
- to be able to analyze and critically evaluate - in their fundamental methodological aspects - contemporary cultural trends;
- to be able to reflect and analyze from a philosophical point of view the problems dealing with various social contexts, in particular those related to education and self-building.