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 in the student an awareness that many of our ideas and mental constructs have a complex identity, which depends on how historically man and his relationship to the world and society was conceived.
The course aims to promote the following specific training objectives for students:
- distinguishing the main philosophical currents, typical of modern and contemporary culture;
- using the language of philosophy appropriately;
- recognizing the role of training within society and the importance of philosophy within it;
- knowing how to produce a critical and reasoned reading of a text, an event or a tendency typical of a culture;
- knowing how to identify emerging or underlying philosophical doctrines within socio-cultural phenomena;
- recognizing different levels of relationship between philosophy and self-building;
- understanding a multidisciplinary context;
- organizing a speech /report using philosophical reading tools of social reality.

The course aims to promote the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge and understanding:
Increased knowledge acquired in high school within the humanities, acquiring greater reasoning skills and offering more refined tools for personal reflection.
Specific objectives include knowledge of the main lines of modern and contemporary philosophical debate and its relations with other educational sciences.
Ability to distinguish and compare different cultural development trends based on different philosophical matrices.
Recognition of the relationship between philosophy and education.
Applied knowledge and understanding:
The course will enable students to understand specific elements of the history of philosophy, providing significant interpretative keys to understand contemporary society.
This includes knowledge and understanding of the concepts and theories covered in the program, as well as the ability to recognize the phases and fundamental matrices of contemporary culture.

Autonomy of judgment:
Increased capacity for critical reflection on all kinds of human activities at personal, cultural, socio-political, and professional levels.
This involves recognizing systemic development trends in society starting from its history, rational and universal interpretative keys, and the ability to support or criticize a philosophical thesis based on historical knowledge.
Addressing contemporary issues with a critical spirit and identifying the foundation of educational practices and cultural influences on them.

Communication skills:
Improving communication skills by broadening the language spectrum with a conscious use of fundamental philosophical notions.
- Enhancing the ability to interpret human and social phenomena with greater philosophical competence
- communicate knowledge of philosophy effectively, speak publicly on philosophical topics and their relation to society,
- recognize theoretical assumptions and philosophical content in educational activities.

Learning skills:
Promoting autonomous learning skills through dialogue with the teacher, the course will improve:
- the ability to analyze and critically evaluate contemporary cultural trends in their fundamental methodological aspects.
- the development of skills for philosophical reflection and analysis concerning issues related to various social contexts, particularly those related to education.