32859 - Teamwork Methodologies and Mediation Didactic Models

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Docente: Vanna Gherardi
  • Credits: 10
  • SSD: M-PED/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO WORK AND TO PROFESSIONS (cod. 0996)

Course contents

Course contents

 

Course contents are articulated in the following two teaching modules: General Didactics and Methodology of teamwork. Each of the two forms is in turn divided into areas of content.                    

 

First module – General Didactics

 

Themes:

 

-         Relation between theories of knowledge and didactic models

-         Contexts and learning processes in action

-         Educational devices

-         Didactics fields

-         Action-reflection and good practice

 

Second module – Methodology of teamwork

 

Themes

 

-         Main theoretical and methodological approaches to teamwork

-         Teamwork as didactic methodology in educational contexts

-         Cooperative learning

-         Research community

-         Leadership

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

Recommended reading:

 

- A. Calvani ( a cura di), Fondamenti di didattica. Teoria e prassi dei dispositivi formativi, Carocci, Roma 2007

- C. Zucchermaglio, Vigotskij in azienda, Carocci, Roma 2004

A text of your choice among the following:        

- V. Gherardi, I bambini e la lettura, Carocci, Roma 2001

- De Bartolomeis, La scuola nel nuovo sistema formativo, Ed. Junior, Bergamo, 1998

- M. Manini, V. Gherardi, L. Balduzzi, Gioco, bambini e genitori, Carocci, Roma 2005

For the second module:

Obligatory texts:

- M. Becciu, A. Colasanti, La leadership autorevole. La conduzione dei gruppi di lavoro, Carocci, Roma

- S. Cacciamani, Imparare cooperando. Dal Cooperative Learning alle comunità di ricerca, Carocci, Roma 2008

 Texts of your choice among the following:

- F. Boccola, Role Playing, Carocci, Roma

- Key competences for adult learning professionals, available from the following Web page: http://ec.europa.eu/education/more-informatiohn/doc/2010/keycomp.pdf

- M. Doel, C. Sawdon, Lavorare con i gruppi. Manuale per gli operatori sociali, Erikson, Trento 2001 

- BAEA, The art of being an adult educator. A handbook for adult educators-to-be, 2010. Text available during the classes

Teaching methods

Teaching methods

Lecture, teamwork

Assessment methods

Assessment methods

The examination will be implemented in oral form.

Teaching tools

Teaching tools

Video, overhead projector, video-recorder  and DVD player

 

Office hours

See the website of Vanna Gherardi