15579 - Intercultural Pedagogy

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary teacher education (cod. 8540)

Learning outcomes

Students will broaden their knowledge and skills in order to analyze and understand  cultural and social changes in a multicultural society. This introduction will help the students understand which processes lie behind the development of foreign children's identity. It will also train on  how to deal with issues related to children and foreign families' reception in school contexts in the light of intercultural pedagogy and its methodology.

Course contents

The course intends to offer elements of knowledge and reflection around the development of the following themes:

-Multiculturality and Interculturality

-Stereotypes, prejudices and racism

-School contexts and relationships with  families of immigrants

- Processes which lie behind the development of foreign children and teenagers' identity

-Immigration and learning processes;

-Pedagogical models

-Intercultural projects in curricular situations 

 

Laboratories

The students are held to attend a laboratory of 8 hours that will be realized with practical activities. The frequency is obligatory.

Readings/Bibliography

For all the students:

1.     A. Genovese, Per una pedagogia interculturale. Dalla stereotipia dei pregiudizi all'impegno dell'incontro, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2003.  

2.     I. Bolognesi, Insieme per crescere. Scuola dell'infanzia e dialogo interculturale,

3.     I. Bolognesi, Di Rienzo A., Io non sono proprio straniero. Dalle parole dei bambini alla progettualità interculturale, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2007

4.     C. Silva, Pedagogia, intercultura, diritti umani, Carocci, Roma, 2008 (in corso di ristampa)

 

For Erasmus students:

1. A. Genovese, Per una pedagogia interculturale. Dalla stereotipia dei pregiudizi all'impegno

dell'incontro, Bononya University Press, Bologna, 2003 (cap. I, II, III, VI)

2. I. Bolognesi, Insieme per crescere. Scuola dell'infanzia e dialogo interculturale, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2013 (cap. I, III, IV)

3. I. Bolognesi, A. Di Rienzo, Io non sono proprio straniero. Dalle parole dei bambini alla progettualità interculturale, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2007 ( cap. II, III, IV)

The examination is written

Teaching methods

Lectures, group work and film

Assessment methods

The examination will be with a written exam with 5 questions. The examination can be carried out after to only have attended the laboratory.
The exam will be estimated on the following objectives:   -to know the contents of the program

-to know to reflect on the contents of the program;

- to know to connect didactic plans and critical events presents in the school contexts to the aspects theorists

Teaching tools

Film

Office hours

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