12871 - General Pedagogy (1) (M-Z)

Learning outcomes

At end of course, students acquire skills of content, theories, historical perspectives and specific language relating to the themes of education and teaching.

Course contents

The program of this General Pedagogy course 1 (Exam Code 12871) refers to 6 CFU. Therefore, for those students who have in their study plan the 12CFU annual course (Exam Code 5760), this program constitutes only the first module of their course..

General Pedagogy Course (1) (from 14 november 2022 to 14 december 2022):
The course deals with the theme Phenomenology of the educational process, family and intercultural perspective, divided into a general section and a monographic part.

The general section deals with the following topics: the phenomenology of the educational process; archetypes and archetypal figures; the religious dimension in the educational process; the metaphor of the journey; migrant families and cultural identities; the intercultural perspective.

The monographic part provides:

Marital conflict and maternal denial: the children of Medea

Readings/Bibliography

General part

1. Caputo M. (a cura di), La religiosità come risorsa, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2022.
2. Caputo M., Famiglie e minori migranti: per un paradigma pedagogico, in Polenghi S., Cappuccio G., Compagno G. (a cura di), 30 anni dopo la Convenzione ONU sui diritti dell’infanzia. Quale pedagogia per i minori?, Lecce-Rovato, Pensa MultiMedia, 2020, pp. 1287-1298 (sito Unibo).

Monographic part:

1. Moscato M.T., I figli di Medea. Conflitto coniugale e negazione materna, Milano, Mondadori, 2022.

Additional text for non-attending students:

1. Caputo M., Pinelli G., Rompianesi T., Identità e conflitti religiosi: piste di formazione interculturale per gli educatori, in “Giornale Italiano della Ricerca Educativa – Italian Journal of Educational Research”, n. 20, giugno 2018, pp. 17-31 (sito Unibo).
2. Caputo M., Introduzione al sapere pedagogico, (sito Unibo).

Teaching methods

In relation to the training objectives of the course, which aims to achieve the active participation of students, will be used, alternating between them, frontal lessons, participative lessons, classroom work, conducted by the teacher.

Assessment methods

The exam is written and lasts one hour. It can consist of open questions, and/or a short essay, and/or it may ask to comment on a quote taken from one of the texts of the bibliography. The aim is to verify the student's specific knowledge, the degree of critical understanding, his/her possible personal re-elaboration, and the expressive and argumentative skills.

This examination method may undergo changes in relation to health emergency conditions or overcrowding at the exams, so it is advisable to consult the notices page.

Rating Descriptors:

• The student demonstrates a thorough knowledge and a comprehensive view of the issues proposed in the course, an expressive capacity of the content required for the autonomous and appropriate use of both the specific language and the methodological tools of the discipline, knows provide an original reflection on problems and Pedagogical themes (27 - 30 e lode).
• The student demonstrates that he possesses an appropriate but incomplete knowledge of the topics proposed in the course, with a relevant but not always specific language, uses the methodological tools of the discipline independently and correctly guides the problems and pedagogical themes (22-26).
• The student demonstrates that he possesses a relevant but inappropriate knowledge (or appropriate with linguistic-formal errors) of the topics proposed in the course, uses, if guided, the methodological tools of the discipline and he focuses on problems and pedagogical issues (18 - 21).
• The student demonstrates numerous gaps in the preparation, expresses non-relevant knowledge and / or conceptual errors, or with serious linguistic errors, can not use the conceptual and methodological tools, and does not know how to navigate among the themes and issues of the discipline (examinations not passed).

Office hours

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