05760 - General Pedagogy

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physical activities for wellness (cod. 8511)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the theoretical and methodological grounds of the system of educational sciences, which enables him/her to plan and lead  a sport- educational intervention at school or in extra-school environments, cooperating with other educational professionals; he/she will be able to carry on observations, analysis and evaluation of the educational context, applying the theoretical knowledge in concrete educational situations;

Course contents

The content of the course regards the epistemological fundamentals of Pedagogy, the conceptual conditions and determinations of education, especially in the emerging paradigm of lifelong and lifewide learning and the research methods in educational sciences

Readings/Bibliography

F. Frabboni, L. Guerra, C. Scurati, Pedagogia. Realtà e prospettive dell'educazione , Milano,    Bruno Mondadori, 1999 (primi due capitoli).  • P.J.Arnold, Educazione motoria, sport e curricolo , Milano, Guerini , 2002 • M. Cuconato, La mia vita è uno yo-yo, Roma, Carocci, 2011

Teaching methods

teacher lessons and group works

Assessment methods

The final examination is oral and and aims at evaluating students' achievement of the following goals:
- to uncover and  analyze meaning and role of education in the contemporary culture;
- to  to reason the interrelation of the pedagogy with the other educational sciences;
- to identify the conceptual theories of scientific investigations in the educational field;

- to identify the main emerging issues of the sport education;

- to know the main problems connected to the social and work integration of the european young people;

- to know the main welfare systems regulating the youth transitions in Europe

This esamination should be done before that of Prof- Farné. Its mark will be defined on the basis of the average marks obtained in the discussion of three of the topics proposed in the course

Teaching tools

Power point and texts presented during the course

Office hours

See the website of Morena Cuconato