- Docente: Lucia Balduzzi
- Credits: 8
- SSD: M-PED/03
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Lucia Balduzzi (Modulo 1) Arianna Lazzari (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Blended Learning (Modulo 1) Blended Learning (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Educator in Childhood Social Services (cod. 9083)
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from Oct 16, 2023 to Nov 10, 2023
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from Sep 18, 2023 to Oct 13, 2023
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will:
- know the methodological issues related to educational research
- know both qualitative and quantitative methods of research
- know the main research designs
- know methods and tools to realize empirical educational research.
Furthermore, students will be able to:
- make a connection between multiple variables to perform complex analysis of specific educational environments
- design a case study to deepen the knowledge of new or less studied educational fields and reflect autonomously upon them
- structure a project presentation and report on progress and results of an empirical research
- communicate clearly and correctly the results of an educational research using different communication channels and registers
- use proper tools to monitor his/her own learning process, reflect upon it and activate a process of revision in order to improve it
Course contents
The Course will address the main issues related to body and play education in early childhood, emphasizing the connections between the development of sensory and motor, cognitive, affective and social skills and the dimension of play.
The theme of play, treated both theoretically and methodologically, it will be developed within the perspective of educational continuity between nidi d'infanzia and pre-school and from an interdisciplinary perspective.
In this sense, Educational Continuity becomes the value and design frame of reference capable of outlining, in evolutionary terms, how play and playful approaches support the development of children's motor, cognitive, affective and social competencies in preschool educational contexts, starting with the nido d'Infanzia.
The teaching is divided into two modules, the first taught by Prof. Lucia Balduzzi and the second by Prof. Arianna Lazzari.
Interweaving the themes of body education and play, the teaching offers the following topics to students:
I MODULE
- Horizontal and vertical educational continuity: relations with families and pre-school.
- Realizing horizontal and vertical educational continuity through play and playful approaches from the 0-3 Guidelines (orientamenti o-3).
- The psychomotor approach to the nido d'infanzia: the centrality of the body and sensory dimension.
- Emmi Pikler's educational proposal.
- The main theoretical and methodological approaches to play in early childhood.
II MODULE.
- The observation of the child's play: the ISSA QUALITY FRAMEWORK 0-3.
- The role of the educator in facilitating the child's play.
- The organization of the material context (spaces and materials)
- Thinking and designing play between background and experience.
- Play in evolutionary perspective (from basket of treasures to symbolic and pretend play).
The course is conducted in presence or according to the University guidelines provided at the time of delivery.
Some supplementary and in-depth materials and others used during the course will be available to the student(s), accessible on the new platform at virtual.unibo.it. To use the platform, you must register using your University credentials.
Readings/Bibliography
MANDATORY TEXTS FOR ALL
Balduzzi L., Pronti per cosa? Innovare i servizi e la scuola dell'infanzia a partire dalle pratiche di continuità educativa. FrancoAngeli: Milano
Braga P., Morganti T. (2021), Giocare al nido e nella scuola dell'infanzia. Carocci Editore: Roma.
Cartacci F. (2013), Movimento e gioco al nido. Erikson: Trento.
Di Pietro A. (2020), Giocare con niente, Edizioni Junior: Parma.
Materiale presente sulla piattaforma Virtuale nella sezione TESTI OBBLIGATORI (Issa Quality Framework, Orientamenti per lo 0-3, ...).
PROGRAM FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS
PROGRAM FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS
Please contact the lecturers to arrange the examination program and reference bibliography.
COMPENSATORY TOOLS FOR DSA STUDENTS
DSA students are asked to contact the office in charge and follow the usual procedures for agreeing on how to conduct the exam (right to additional time and/or choice of oral exam, use of maps, use of pc, ...).
STUDENTS WITH DEBT
Students who have the debit course in their syllabus (a.y. 2020/21; 2021/22; 2022/23) may-at their choice-study by referring to the examination syllabus in which the teaching was in the syllabus or to the syllabus of the current year (2023/24).
Those who decide to refer to a different syllabus than the current one MUST send an email to the lecturer specifying in the subject line EXAM DATE and in the text of the email the syllabus on which they intend to take the exam.
Teaching methods
Teaching adhered to the experimentation of the innovative integrated teaching method involving innovative use of the Virtuale platform.
Frontal lecture (inductive, deductive and dialogic), video analysis, and case studies
Assessment methods
Oral exam of an argumentative nature. The exam will test your knowledge of the topics covered in class and in the texts in the bibliography.
Indicators that will contribute to the evaluation are
- Relevance of the answer to the question posed by the professor;
- Clarity of presentation of content;
- Use of appropriate disciplinary language;
- Ability to elaborate and make connections between major themes;
- Ability to provide examples and cases related to childhood education contexts.
The grade will be expressed in 30/30.
Teaching tools
ppt presentations
movies
materials distributed by the lecturer during class to facilitate discussion
TEAMS platform for remote delivery
Office hours
See the website of Lucia Balduzzi
See the website of Arianna Lazzari
SDGs


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