13220 - General and Social Pedagogy

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Docente: Sara Emiliani
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: M-PED/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5708)

Learning outcomes

The vocational training provides pedagogical skills and also life skills.

Please refer to the italian descriptions of official learning goals.

Course contents

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

  • Introduction to Pedagogy:
  • Basics, definitions, aepistemological classification
  • Education and its meanings
  • Andragogy

PART ONE:

  • The educational process
  • Teaching and educational needs
  • Didactical methods
  • Educational objectives
  • Educative communication and health caring
  • Information
  • Communication elements: channels, structure, instruments
  • Verbal and non-verbal communication
  • Pragmatics in communication

PART TWO

  • Care relationship and its instruments
  • Dialogues and narrations
  • Empathy
  • Listening
  • Fighting listener's prejudice
  • Assertiveness
  • Counseling
  • Resilience

Readings/Bibliography

Zannini Lucia (2023). L'educazione del paziente. Per una consapevolezza pedagogica dei professionisti della cura. Raffaello Cortina.

- Zannini Lucia (2008). Medical Humanities e medicina narrativa. Raffaello Cortina.

Teaching methods

Lessons; group works ; guided discussions.

Assessment methods

The final exam consists of a written integrated test.

Teaching tools

Pc, internet, PPT original illustration on slides.

Office hours

See the website of Sara Emiliani

SDGs

Good health and well-being Quality education

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.