Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary teacher education (cod. 8540)

Learning outcomes

- knowledge of physical processes;

- knowledge of key-themes in Human Geograhy, Economic Geography, Political Geography;

- skills in identify natural and human features in a given landscape (with a specific focus on the Italian landscape);

- skills in using graphs, maps, satellite images, also in didactic contexts;

- awareness about local/global perspectives;

- active awareness about the concept of Sustainable Development and its application at Primary school and in pre-school contexts (Environmental Education).


Course contents

 

Geomorphology and Climatology

The Landscape: Human and Natural Features

Issues in Human Geography and Political-Economic Geography (Population, Man-Environment Interactions, Economic Sectors, Themes of Political Geography).

The Tools of Geography: graphs, maps, satellite images

Didactics of Geography and Environmental Education


Readings/Bibliography

To attend the lectures is warmly recommended.

For those who will attend the lectures:

  • Personal notes from the lectures.
  • G. De Vecchis, F. Fatigati, Geografia generale. Un'introduzione, Roma, Carocci, 2016.
  • C. Giorda, Il mio spazio nel mondo. Geografia per la scuola dell'infanzia e primaria, Roma, Carocci, 2014.

Personal or alternative readings, in English, have to be discussed with the professor.

Lectures are given in Italian Language.


Teaching methods

Lectures.

Focus groups based on short videos.

Workshops.


Assessment methods

Written test, in Italian Language (90 minutes), made up of 4 short essays and closed-ended questions.

Regarding the closed-ended questions, the test will be revised giving: +1 for every correct answer, 0 for no answers present, -0.25 for every wrong answer.

Final score based on ../30 (18 is considered the minimum to pass the exam).

Inscription to the exam on Almaesami website.

If rejected at the exam, it is possible to have a second chance.

For ERASMUS students only: possibility to arrange an oral exam in Italian Language.

Before the final exam, students should have to attend the geography workshop (in this case, attendance is compulsory).

The workshop will be put under the general supervision of the professor, dealing with didactic themes linked to the course contents. The workshop will be evaluated: rejected (in this case the student must take part to a second workshop)  or -1/0/+1 added or withdrawn from/to the score of the written test above mentioned.

A last, additional workshop will be held in early July, for those who had not the possibility to join the previous workshops.

Teaching tools

Videoprojector, PC.


Office hours

See the website of Stefano Piastra

SDGs

Quality education Sustainable cities

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