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02487 - Sociology of Knowledge

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Graziella Giovannini
  • Credits: 9
  • SSD: SPS/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Sociology (cod. 0116)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the students with teoretical and empirical capabilities to read the  educational processes and systems in the contemporary global society.

Course contents

Lessons will be structured in three parts:

  1. The first theoretical part will be about the analysis of research themes in Sociology of Education. We will also introduce the main models used to understand the educational processes and institutions.
  2. In the second part we will study social representations and state of life of migrant minors, paying particular attention on educational processes.
  3. In the third part we will analyse informal  contexts of socialisation.

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliography for 9 credits

1. Besozzi E., Educazione e società. ,  Carocci, Roma 2006

2.Queirolo Palmas L. Prove di seconde generazioni : giovani di origine immigrata tra scuole e spazi urbani, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2006

3. Selected essays from: Colozzi I., Giovannini G. (a cura di), Ragazzi in Europa tra tutela,autonomia e responsabilità, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2003 (from teacher web site: http://didattica.spbo.unibo.it/cgi-bin/adon.cgi?act=doc&sid=14&doc=2796)


Bibliography for 6 credits

1.  Besozzi E., Educazione e società,  Carocci, Roma 2006 

2. Queirolo Palmas L. Prove di seconde generazioni : giovani di origine immigrata tra scuole e spazi urbani, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2006

 

Bibliography for students of Sociologia della conoscenza (credits 9)

1. Besozzi E., Educazione e società,  Carocci, Roma 2006

2. Queirolo Palmas L. Prove di seconde generazioni : giovani di origine immigrata tra scuole e spazi urbani, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2006

3. Selected essays from: Colozzi I., Giovannini G. (a cura di), Ragazzi in Europa tra tutela,autonomia e responsabilità, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2003 (from teacher web site: http://didattica.spbo.unibo.it/cgi-bin/adon.cgi?act=doc&sid=14&doc=2796)

Teaching methods

We will have frontal lessons and collective discussions

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Information on the course will be available on:

www.spbo.unibo.it/pais/giovgraz

Office hours

See the website of Graziella Giovannini