79363 - FENOMENOLOGIA E EDUCAZIONE

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows:

the basics of the  phenomenological paradigm and its application to the field of education;

The theoretical approaches to the Stranger conceived as a sociological category.

The themes related the (social) construction of (social) reality.

The insiderism vs outsiderism debate

She /he will be able to:

1. Identify the ideological dimension of scientific knowledge and  educational practices  

2. Understand and analyze  ordinary as well as institutional communication with a particular focus on:

The communicative construction of social identities

The communicative construction of the cases as problematic  or non problematic cases 

 

 

 

Course contents

The course is in 4 parts:

Phenomenology of education: a theoretical framework for thinking and acting in high complex sociocultural contexts;

The Foreigner as an analyser  of the community's everyday knowledge and commonsensical  assumptions and implicit moral orders.

The construction of social realities: the communicative constitution of social identities;

Language, interaction and culture: the case of interethnic communication; the case of social conflicts and forms of mediation.

Readings/Bibliography

The mandatory readings are: 

L. Caronia, Fenomenologia dell'educazione. Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2011.

L. Caronia, S. Besoli (a cura di). Il senso della realtà. L'orizzonte delle fenomenologia nello studio del mondo sociale.

SOLTANTO quattro capitoli: Cap. 1 Vincenzo Costa) Cap. 2 (L. Caronia), Cap. 3 (Jason Throop) e 8 (Maurizio Fabbri)

F. Orletti, La conversazione diseguale. Potere e interazione. Roma, Carocci, 2000

Special  Issue of Salute e Società, 1, 2013

 F. Scaparro (ed. by ), Il coraggio di mediare, Milano, Guerini, 2001. Only chapters  N. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 e 12

 F. Zannoni, La città divisa. Conflittualità, confini, prove di comunità,Franco Angeli, Milano, 2015.

Teaching methods

The contents of the section "Pedagogy, cultural differences, confocts and mediation" are mainly provided through: Lectures, discussions, classroom collective works; video presentation and analysis.

Assessment methods

Written essay 

 

 

Teaching tools

Power point presentations (they are temporary tools for the lesson, they are not available for nor provided to to the students )

Video analysis

Seminars by experts

 

Office hours

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