- Docente: Pietro Corazza
- Credits: 2
- SSD: M-PED/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)
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from Oct 14, 2025 to Dec 15, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student knows the basic elements related to educational aspects of healthcare professions.
Course contents
- Adopting a systemic view: recognising the connections between personal, interpersonal and collective levels
- A pedagogical and philosophical perspective on the concepts of body/mind and health/illness
- Mindfulness and psychosomatic awareness practices
- Pedagogy of Communication and Nonviolent Communication
- Community approach to health: social determinants of health, cultural and anthropological dimensions, gender issues
Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities: it is suggested that they get in touch immediately with the University office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/it) and with the lecturer, in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the exam.
Readings/Bibliography
During the lectures, the teacher will provide a selection of materials to be studied.
An extensive bibliography is presented below, from which the texts used during the course will be taken:
Baer RA (2012) (a cura di), Come funziona la mindfulness. Teoria, ricerca, strumenti. Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore,
Milano.
Briggs, B. (2014). Guida pratica a facilitazione e metodo del consenso: Terra Nuova Edizioni.
Canguilhem G. (1943/1998). Il normale e il patologico. Torino: Einaudi.
Fiorilli O. (2012). Biomedicina. Affari di donne. In "Femministe a parole. Grovigli da districare" Mascat J, Marchetti S., Perrilli V. (a cura di) Ediesse. Disponibile al link: https://www.academia.edu/7205620/Biomedicina_Affari_di_donne_In_Femministe_a_parole_Grovigli_da_districare_Mascat_J_Marchetti_S_Perrilli_V_a_cu_ra_di
Forsyth, D. R. (2018). Group Dynamics: Cengage Learning.
Fragnito M., Tola M. (a cura di) (2021). Ecologie della cura. Prospettive transfemministe. Napoli: Orthotes.
Ludwig DS, Kabat-Zinn J. Mindfulness in Medicine. JAMA. 2008;300(11):1350–1352. doi:10.1001/jama.300.11.1350
Macy J. (2014). Coming back to life: the updated guide to the Work that Reconnects. Gabriola Island: New Society.
Popay J., Whitehead M., Ponsford R., Egan M., Mead R.. (2021). Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks, Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 5, pp. 1253–1263. https://doi-org.ezproxy.unibo.it/10.1093/heapro/daaa133
Quaranta I. (a cura di) (2006). Antropologia medica. I testi fondamentali. Milano: Raffaello Cortina.
Rosenberg M. B. (1999/2017). Le parole sono finestre (oppure muri): introduzione alla comunicazione nonviolenta. Reggio Emilia: Esserci.
Watzlawick P., Beavin J. H., Jackson D. (1967/1976), Pragmatica della comunicazione umana, Roma: Astrolabio.
WHO. (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health - Final report of the commission on social determinants of health. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-IER-CSDH-08.1
Teaching methods
Lessons will be composed of moments of frontal explanation, discussion in subgroups, workshop activities, mindfulness practices.
Assessment methods
Only the two first exam dates will consist in written examination with closed multiple-choice questions, consisting of 16 questions with 4 answer options (only one of which is correct). If all answers are correct, the mark is 31, which is equivalent to 30 cum laude. A mark will be deducted for each wrong or ungiven answer, up to a maximum of 7 wrong answers allowed: if more than 7 wrong answers are given, the examination is failed.
For those who do not pass or do not take the examination in the first two dates, or who refuse the grade: all subsequent exams will be in the form of an oral examination.
Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities: it is advisable to contact the University office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/it) in good time: it will be its task to propose any possible adaptations to the students concerned, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance for approval by the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness also in relation to the teaching objectives.
Teaching tools
Slides and teaching materials available on the platform Virtuale.
Office hours
See the website of Pietro Corazza