31733 - Models of Educational Mediation

Course contents

The course is made of:

-20 hours in presence

- 10 hours in e-learning

The contents will be developed around the following topics:

The network of services for early childhood: 'nido' (0 - 3 years old); Babies and Parents centres 

Pree-schools services professionalism: dealing with children, families, other educators, and the organisation of space and time.

Discussion on the results of the most recent research. 

The cognitive and emotional child: observe, understand support

Readings/Bibliography

Recommended reading:

Principal reference texts ( for all students, both course attenders and non-attenders)

- Moodle platform, www.moodle.unibo.it, 'Modelli di Mediazione didattica'

- A.L. Galardini (ed. by), Crescere al nido. Gli spazi, i tempi, le attività, le relazioni, Carocci, Roma 2003.

It is compulsory to have studied the above texts in order to take the exam.  

No attending students:

Schenetti M., Comprendere il dolore bambino, Perdisa editore, Ozzano dell'Emilia, 2006

For spanish erasmus students is available the spanish version

Schenetti M., Comprender el dolor enfantil. Ninos y ninas que sufren emocionalmnete, GRAO Editorial, Barcelona, 2011

Further reading (optional)

On nido's knowledge

Musi E., Invisibili sapienze. Pratiche di cura al nido, edizioni Junior, 2011

On reception /integration

- S. Mantovani, L. Restuccia Saitta, C. Bove, Attaccamento e inserimento: stili e storie delle relazioni al nido, F. Angeli, Milano 2000.

- L. Trevisan, L.G. Gambini, Diario dell'inserimento, Ed. Junior, Bergamo 2001.

On adult –child relationships

E. Goldschmied, S. Jackson, Persone da zero a sei anni. Crescere e lavorare nell'ambiente del nido, Junior, Bergamo 1998.

On organisations in nursery context

- A. Gariboldi, Questa è un'altalena. Spazi e contesti al nido d'infanzia, Ed Junior,  Bergamo 2008

Teaching methods

Traditional lessons, animation and practice in classroom and in e-learning,illustration pedagogical documentation

Assessment methods

Written examination

Teaching tools

Learning objects, video, PC, Internet, pedagogical documentation

Office hours

See the website of Michela Schenetti