15579 - Intercultural Pedagogy

Academic Year 2021/2022

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course the student - KNOWS the main connections between migratory event and learning processes, inparticular of second generation immigrant - KNOWS the multicultural family models with a particular attention to international adoption - UNDERSTANDS the development processes in children and adolescents of foreign origin and those internationally adopted - KNOWS issues related to multiculturalism and interculturality in contemporary debate – IS ABLE to apply techniques for the construction and evaluation of intercultural education in extracurricular contexts – UNDERSTANDS and CAN APPLY the categorization processes regarding stereotypes and prejudices in order to the overrun ethnic conflicts – UNDERSTANDS the historical dynamics, social and cultural rights leading to racist attitudes and behaviours.

Course contents

The course intends to offer elements of knowledge and reflection around the development of the following themes:

-Migration, climate change and sustainability
environmental

-Multicultural and Intercultural

-Intercultural pedagogical models

-Stereotypes, prejudices and racism

- Processes which lie behind the development of foreign children and teenagers' identity

-Immigration, learning processes and success scolastic

-Conflicts and intercultural dialogue

Period of the lessons

The course will be in the second semester

Readings/Bibliography

For all the students:

1. I. Bolognesi, S. Lorenzini, Pedagogia interculturale. Pregiudizi, razzismi, impegno educativo, BUP, Bologna, 2017

2. M. Cohen-Emerique, Per un approccio interculturale nelle professioni sociali ed educative, Erickson, Trento, 2017.

Optional texts

A. Granata, Sono qui da una vita. Dialogo aperto con le seconde generazioni, Carocci, Roma, 2011

F. Gobbo (a cura di), L'educazione al tempo dell'intercultura, Carocci, Roma, 2008

D. Zoletto, Il gioco duro dell'integrazione. L'intercultura sui campi da gioco, Cortina, Milano, 2010.

S. Ulivieri (a cura di), Ragazze e ragazzi stranieri a scuola. Intercultura, istruzione e progetto di vita in Europa e in Toscana, ETS, 2018.

M. Fiorucci, F. Pinto MInerva, A. Portera (a cura di), Gli alfabeti dell'intercultura, ETS, Pisa, 2017.

M. Catarci, E. Macinai (a cura di), Le parole chiave dell'intercultura, ETS, Pisa, 2015.

M. Livi Bacci, In cammino. Breve storia delle migrazioni, il Mulino, Bologna, 2014.

J. Diamond, Da te solo a tutto il mondo. Un ornitologo osserva le società umane, Einaudi, Torino, 2015.

V. Maher (a cura di), Genitori migranti, Rosenberg&Sellier, Torini, 2012

R. Bracalenti, M. Saglietti, Lavorare con i minori non accompagnati, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2011

L.L. Cavalli Sforza, Razzismo e Noismo. Le declinazioni del noi e l'esclusione dell'altro, Einaudi, Torino, 2013.

L. Piasere, L'antiziganismo, Quolibet, Roma, 2015.

B. Riccio, F. Tarabusi (a cura di), Dilemmi, mediazioni e pratiche nel lavoro dell'accoglienza rivolta a rifugiati e richiedenti asilo, numero monografico, n. 1, 2018, in Educazione interculturale (rivista on line).

G. Mastrojeni, A. Pasini, Effetto serra. Effetto guerra, Chiarelettere, Milano, 2017.

A. Ghosh, La grande cecità. I cambiamenti climatici e l'impensabile, Neri Pozza, 2017.


Teaching methods

The contents are introduced with different didactic methods: lectures, group work, film and discussion.

Assessment methods

The teaching ends with a written exam with a score in thirtieth.

The exam lasts 1.30 hours.

The evidence is an analysis of a case that consists in the presentation of a situation-problem that can be presented in multicultural educational contexts.

Starting from some questions it is requested to produce a reflection on the presented case, referring to the theoretical approaches present in the texts of the program.

The exam is estimated on the following objectives:

-to know the contents of the program

-to know to reflect on the contents of the program;

- to know to connect educational paths and critical events presents in the educational contexts to the aspects theorists

The students can take the examination on any the dates during the same session.

Teaching tools

Films, power point

Office hours

See the website of Ivana Bolognesi

SDGs

Quality education Gender equality Reduced inequalities

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