- Docente: Letizia Caronia
- Credits: 6
- SSD: PAED-01/A
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Teaching L2 Italian, Plurilingualism, Interculturality (cod. 6243)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (cod. 6683)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 6690)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 6726)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Planning and managing of educational intervention in social distress (cod. 6741)
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from Sep 28, 2026 to Nov 11, 2026
Learning outcomes
Students are familiar with the main connections between migration and learning processes, particularly regarding the second generations of immigrants, as well as with multicultural family models in relation to the cultures of the countries of origin. They understand the developmental processes of preadolescents and adolescents of foreign origin and have some knowledge of the school systems of their countries of origin. They are familiar with issues related to multiculturalism and interculturality as developed in contemporary research and debate. They possess the skills and knowledge necessary for the understanding and analysis of conflicts and cultural resources present in multiethnic societies, as well as for designing appropriate educational interventions. They understand and are able to apply categorisation processes related to the formation of stereotypes and prejudices from the perspective of overcoming ethnic conflicts; they also understand the historical, social, and cultural dynamics that may lead to racist attitudes and behaviour, making use of the value of respective cultural differences for teaching purposes.
Course contents
the course is comprised of four parts. The first is mainly of a theoretical nature: it concern the phenomenological paradigm in the XX century wit a particular emphasis on the phenomenology of education. The Phenomenology of education is presented as a theoretical framework for thinking and acting in high complex sociocultural contexts; The other subsequent sections of the course focus on: the stranger as a socialogical category and an anlyser of everyday life; insiderism vs outsiderism as folk theory of knowledge; Orientalism as a cultural model; Figures and images of the cultural Other; the construction of social realities, the communicative constitution of social identities; language, interaction and culture: the case of interethnic communication.
Readings/Bibliography
The mandatory reading for international students who master Italian are the following:
1. Caronia, L. Fenomenologia dell'educazione, Milano, F.Angeli 2011
2. Ranzani, F. Educare curando. La collaborazione interprofessionale nelle cure sanitarie tra educazione e comunicazione, Libreria Universitaria, 2025.
3. Davide Zoletto, Dall'intercultura ai contesti eterogenei.
Presupposti teorici e ambiti di ricerca pedagogica, Franco
Angeli, Milano, 2012.
4. Simonetta Tabboni, Lo straniero e l'altro. Napoli:Liguori, 2006
5. Franca Orletti. La Conversazione diseguale. Potere e interazione, Roma:Carocci, 200
Suggested reading
E. Said Sempre nel posto sbagliato. Autobiografia. Milano: Feltrinelli, 2009
G. Lerner. Scintille. Una storia di anime vagabonde. Milano: Feltrinelli, 2009.
For international students who do not master Italian.
The course will be held in Italian, however for international students who do not master Italian a side program will be at stake.
For the students who attend the lessons, summaries and English translations of the over all concepts/notions/ topics addressed during the lesson will be orally provided upon request, during the lesson.
Slides will be translated in English upon request.
The mandatory readings for the final and oral exam are:
L. Caronia (ed by) (2018), Phenomenology and Education Today [Special Issue of RPD_Journal of Theories and Research in Education, [https://rpd.unibo.it/issue/view/733]Vol. 13 No. 2.
A. Shutz (1944). The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 49, No. 6 (May, 1944) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/i328813], pp. 499-507 (9 pages) Published By: The University of Chicago Press.
R.K. Merton, Insiders and Outsiders: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge, Volume 78,Number 1|Jul., 1972.
Teaching methods
lectures, classroom discussion, team work, collective assignments
Assessment methods
Written exam: extended essay
Teaching tools
Lectures, Power point presentations, video and video analysis
Office hours
See the website of Letizia Caronia
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.