Teaching - Università Roma Tre

SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION (objectives)

The teaching of Sociology of Education aims to provide students with the fundamental concepts related to traditional and new socio-identity training paradigms, the prevailing theoretical framework and the interconnections with the other social dimensions and the new informal socializing agents: the group of peers and the new communicative-digital realities. The latter constitute a sort of "intermediate sphere", along the axis of the adaptive process to the environment, intervening with their non-formal action, to give organization and coherence to the patterns of objectification of experience.

Knowledge and understanding
- provide historical, theoretical and methodological knowledge related to the transition from educational models based on the control paradigm, positivist-functionalist, to the current interaction
Applying knowledge and understanding
- develop skills and competences in the analysis of educational models regarding the socio-individual identity configuration, the development of learning and the various forms of transmission: institutional (through specific agencies, from the family to the school); inter-generational (from adults to young people) that especially today is not only vertical, from one generation to the next, but can also be horizontal, from a juvenile lever to the other.
Making judgements
- develop the critical thinking to analyse the evolution and transformation of educational models, especially regarding the passage from the traditional unidirectional, cumulative, normative, teleological model to the current more symmetrical, informative, negotiable and prone to a "form of polycentrism", to a "shared construction" of knowing, thinking and practicing education as a social relationship.
Communication skills
- know how to communicate the acquired knowledge, in terms of ideas, problems, themes and possible solutions, related to the appropriate educational strategies to the contemporary socio-cultural context and to promote the ability to manage the multiplicity of communicative and experiential challenges.
Learning skills
- to develop the learning skills that are necessary for them to undertake further studies, related to many of the sociological, pedagogical and psychological disciplines that deal with the themes of identity building, training processes and educational-communicative relationships, with a high degree of autonomy.

Code

22910180

Language

ITA

Type of certificate

Profit certificate

Credits

Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code

SPS/08

Contact Hours

Type of Activity

Basic compulsory activities

Group: A - L

Teacher	lombardinilo andrea (syllabus) The sociology of education between expressione and identity: Erving Goffman's legacy The course is divided into two parts: the first general part on an overview of issues on the sociology of education with reference to the construction of social identity, from modernity to the age of globalization, not forgetting the convergent and connected cultural processes. Focus will be on the primary, secondary and peer-related socialization processes, with particular reference to the evolution of sociological thinking as applied to education and to the most common communicative models. The second monographic part will be on the relations between expression and identity in Erving Goffman, focusing particularly on the relational dynamics linked to play, roles and theatricality within (and beyond) educative spaces, including the informative practices that determine behaviours, types of knowledge and choice (individual and collective). The strategic topics of this part of the course are the construction of identity through the expressive and relational practices inherent to informative and play interactions. Recalling the fundamental study of Johan Huizinga on nature and the meaning of play. Goffman considers the structure and dynamics of this and of other daily interactions, and also their anchorage in the innermost depths of the human being. Play takes possession of those corridors of reality left ungoverned by the organization of social life, where it is free to distance itself from the habitual, and at times enforced, roles, and where it can express its own identity, above all that most directly in contact with emotions and feelings. Topics of the lessons Unit 1 Education in modernity. The keywords of sociology Education as life: Georg Simmel. Unit 2 Socialization. Keywords The socialization of the child (Parsons). Interiorization and social structure (Berger and Luckmann). The ultra-socialized conception of man in modern sociology (Wrong). Unit 3 Identity and the social self: keywords Social aspects and individual aspects of the spirit (Cooley). The formation of “Self” in the social situation (Mead). Certain types of character and of society (Riesman). Unit 4 Education. Keywords The effects of education as instruction (Meyer). Teachers and authorities (Becker). Students and socialization processes in higher education (Parsons and Platt). Social capital and social development (Coleman). Unit 5 Expression and identity. Role play, theatricality, in-formation (Goffman) (reference books) Textbooks used Maddalena Colombo (a cura di), E come educazione. Autori e parole chiave della sociologia, Napoli, Liguori, 2007. Erving Goffman, Espressione e identità. Gioco, ruoli, teatralità, Bologna, il Mulino (2003, or any edition) For a 2CFUs or 3CFUs supplement: Elena Besozzi, Educazione e società, new edition, Roma, Carocci, 2025.
Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities	From to
Delivery mode	Traditional
Attendance	not mandatory
Evaluation methods	Written test

Group: M - Z

Teacher	RUSPINI PAOLO (syllabus) The course is divided into two parts: a first general part dedicated to a review of topics pertaining to sociology of education with reference to the construction of social identity in multicultural context and to the processes of primary, secondary and peer socialization; a second monographic part, dedicated to an in-depth study of international migration dynamics and their impact on formal and informal educational processes from a comparative perspective. Relevant issues in this area are, among others, the second generations of migrants, discrimination in education and work, intercultural competences, the role of transnational networks and migrant diasporas as educational and development agents, intergenerational dialogue and the impact of training / work dynamics on emigration processes. The importance of historical memory and the transmission of knowledge on migration through diversity education facilitate the fight against the problematization of migration and thus allow the initiation of citizenship and naturalization practices appropriate to the new multi-ethnic reality and hybrid identities of transnational migrants. To this end, case studies derived from empirical research on second generation migrants, female migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and from the analysis of old and new emigration flows from Italy will be proposed in a comparative perspective. Lesson themes Unit 1 Presentation of the course and the theme "Society and education" Unit 2 Society and education: a theoretical and interpretative framework Unit 3 Society and education: models of socialization Unit 4 Identity in the multicultural society Unit 5 Socialization, inequalities and migration Unit 6 International migration: a theoretical and empirical framework Unit 7 Memory and migration: transnational migration networks and diversity education Unit 8 Interculturality, discrimination and educational processes: the second generations Unit 9 Female migration from sub-Saharan Africa: gender and participatory paths Unit 10 “Why are they leaving?”: Italian emigrations Unit 11 Ethnographic path and course conclusions (reference books) Bibliographic references (attending and non-attending students) Various teaching materials will be suggested by the lecturer during classes together with ad hoc readings. Others are available online. General part: Besozzi, E. (2017), Società, cultura, educazione. Teorie, contesti e processi, Roma: Carocci. Monographic part: Koser, K. (2009), Le migrazioni internazionali, Bologna: Il Mulino (Edizione originale: International Migration: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Another text to be chosen from: Gehnyei, A. M. (2023), Il corpo nero, Roma: Fandango Libri. Lapov, Z., Campani, G. (2017), Donne africane oltre le frontiere. Percorsi partecipativi in prospettiva di genere, Firenze: Nerbini. Pugliese, E. (2018), Quelli che se ne vanno. La nuova emigrazione italiana, Bologna: Il Mulino. Ruspini, P. (2024), Memoria e migrazioni. Percorsi di ricerca tra Svizzera e Italia in prospettiva transnazionale, Milano: Mimesis.
Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities	From to
Delivery mode	Traditional At a distance
Attendance	not mandatory
Evaluation methods	Written test