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Laurea in Scienze dell'educazione - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following
6
B
M-STO/02
Foreign language (B1 level)
6
E
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following
1 module among the following
1 module among the following
Training
12
F
-

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following
6
B
M-STO/02
Foreign language (B1 level)
6
E
-
activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following
1 module among the following
1 module among the following
Training
12
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S02875

Coordinator

Igor Pelgreffi

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/03 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 2A, Sem. 2B

Learning outcomes

Conoscere i fondamenti filosofici delle principali nozioni etiche e morali che intervengono nella sfera delle esperienze di formazione, con particolare attenzione ai temi del soggetto, della persona e della relazione interpersonale. Conoscere i principali modelli filosofici e culturali di descrizione dell’identità personale e saper leggere la struttura e la complessità dei processi educativi nei loro molteplici aspetti: quelli legati alle emozioni e alla corporeità della persona; quelli legati agli aspetti sociali; quelli legati alla relazione con l’altro; quelli legati al ruolo dei contesti e degli ambienti tipici del contemporaneo. Conoscere e comprendere la portata etica e filosofica del concetto di formazione, che va inteso non solo come formazione rivolta ai discenti o agli utenti, ma anche come processo che trasforma il soggetto formatore. Orientarsi criticamente tra le principali prospettive teoriche, culturali e filosofiche caratterizzanti le questioni etiche e morali connesse ai processi di formazione, con particolare attenzione ai temi del soggetto, della persona e della relazione interpersonale. Utilizzare in modo corretto il lessico filosofico, guadagnando una maggiore consapevolezza dei concetti fondamentali in campo etico ed educativo, favorendo l’acquisizione di una capacità di azione più responsabile e consapevole nei diversi contesti relazionali ed educativi. Condurre autonomamente analisi di situazioni empiriche tipiche del mondo contemporaneo, inerenti sia le pratiche educative che quelle relazionali in generale, riconducendo i termini del problema dell’identità personale a categorie di tipo filosofico e reinterpretando le esperienze vissute, da se stessi o dagli altri, a un livello di maggiore complessità.

Program

Course theme
The processes of formation of personal identity, through narration, corporeity and digital environments

Synthetic description
The course intends to investigate some aspects of the formation processes of our personal identity. In particular, on the basis of various theoretical and philosophical readings, the relationships between the formation of identity and the narrative dimension, corporeity and the web-digital environment will be deepened, with particular attention to the dimension of childhood and adolescence.



Articulation of contents

In the first part of the course the relationship between personal identity and narration will be explored, based on some contemporary philosophical texts (including Paul Ricoeur, Aldo Giorgio Gargani, Michel Foucault). It will be highlighted how they allow a reflection on the concepts of "history of a life", "memory", "writing of oneself". The link between three nodal elements in the process of identity formation will therefore be shown: the singular existence, the relationship with the other and the expression of the self. In the latter, the role of corporeality will be explored.

In the second part of the course, we will focus on the issues of corporeality and personal identity linked to the period of childhood and adolescence. In this regard, some aspects of philosophical theories of childhood can be found in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Aldo Giorgio Gargani and Jacques Lacan. In addition, some excerpts from films by the French director François Truffaut (“The 400 blows” and “The wild child”) will be screened and discussed, in which the theme of childhood and adolescence are pivotal.

In the last part of the course, the aspects discussed above will be applied to the analysis of new practices of self-narration and self-expression typical of the web environment. Today it represents a frontier of the increasingly pressing educational discourse, also in reference to pre-adolescent age groups. They will deepen - through concrete examples and their theoretical discussion - the question of the construction of the digital identity, of the mask and of self-representation (for example through the selfie), in their relationship with the social network device. In particular, emphasis will be placed on the importance of corporeity (and inter-corporeality) in the construction of a more conscious and philosophically more guarded approach to the digital environment.



Educational organization of the program

The lessons will be predominantly frontal, in order to present the essential contents of the program. However, space will be given to moments of dialogue in the classroom between students and lecturer, favoring the moment of participation with interventions, questions and brief debates on the themes or materials from time to time proposed during the lesson, or for clarifications or further information on the previous lessons.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Ippolita Anime elettriche Jaca Book 2016 solo le seguenti parti: Metamorfosi (pp. 31-45), Confessione (pp. 47-63), Genius (pp. 65-80).
Maurice Merleau-Ponty Il bambino e gli altri Armando 2015
Aldo Giorgio Gargani La seconda nascita Moretti & Vitali Editori 2010 solo le seguenti parti: “Sguardo e destino” (pp. 21-117) [Si segnala che, essendo del tutto equivalenti a quelli che si trovano in “La seconda nascita”, è possibile leggere il testo di Gargani anche nella seguente edizione: Aldo Giorgio Gargani, “Sguardo e destino”, Editore Laterza, Roma-Bari 1988].
Michel Foucault ll bel rischio Cronopio 2013
Giuseppe Riva Selfie. Narcisismo e identità Il Mulino 2016

Examination Methods

• Reference texts
To achieve the learning objectives listed above, mandatory for all, attending and non-attending students, is the study of the following articles, books and films:


ARTICLES

P. Ricoeur, “L’identità narrativa” (on the free link http://www.allegoriaonline.it/PDF/8.pdf), “Allegoria”, n. 60, 2009, pp. 93-104.

A.G. Gargani, “La nascita attraverso la scrittura”, in “Anterem” 60, giugno 2000 (on he free link http://www.anteremedizioni.it/files/file/aldo_giorgio_gargani.pdf), solo le seguenti pagine: pp. 8-10.

J. Lacan, “Lo stadio dello specchio come formatore della funzione dell’io”, in Jacques Lacan, Scritti, Volume 1, Einaudi, Torino 2002, pages 87-94 only.

BOOKS

Michel Foucault, “Il bel rischio”, Edizioni Cronopio, Napoli 2013;

M. Merleau-Ponty, Il bambino e gli altri, Armando, Roma (qualsiasi edizione) (2000)

Aldo Giorgio Gargani, “La seconda nascita”, Moretti & Vitali Editori, Bergamo 2010, solo le seguenti parti: “Sguardo e destino” (pp. 21-117) [Si segnala che, essendo del tutto equivalenti a quelli che si trovano in “La seconda nascita”, è possibile leggere il testo di Gargani anche nella seguente edizione: Aldo Giorgio Gargani, “Sguardo e destino”, Editore Laterza, Roma-Bari 1988].

G. Riva, Selfie. Narcisismo e identità, Il mulino, Bologna 2016.

Ippolita, Anime elettriche, Jaca Book, Milano 2016 [solo le seguenti parti: Metamorfosi (pp. 31-45), Confessione (pp. 47-63), Genius (pp. 65-80)].

FILMS
F. Truffaut, The 400 blows (France, 1959)
F. Truffaut, The wild child (France, 1970)





In addition to the mandatory texts, students can read the following texts for a personal study of some parts of the program:


F. Cambi, L’autobiografia come metodo formativo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
L. Denicolai, Riflessioni del sé. Esistenza, identità e social network, “Media Education”, Vol. 5, n. 2, 2014, pp. 164-181 (disponibile on line al sito http://riviste.erickson.it/med/wp-content/uploads/4_Denicolai_II_2014_fin.pdf).
U. Fadini, Stravaganze. Annotazioni sull’addio in immagini, in I. Pelgreffi, Il filosofo e il suo schermo. Video-interviste confessioni monologhi, KE Edizioni, Tricase (LE) 2016, pp. 51-59.
M. Foucault, Sull’origine dell’ermeneutica del sé, Cronopio, Napoli 2012.
F. Scrivano, Diario e narrazione, Quodlibet, Macerata 2014.
M. Serres, Non è un mondo per vecchi. Perché i ragazzi rivoluzionano il sapere, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2013.


Exam
The exam consists, both for attending and non-attending students, in an oral test, in the form of an dialogue on the contents of the program. The goal of the oral test is to to determine the expected learning outcomes. The evaluation, expressed in thirtieths, will take into account of:

- knowledge of the main contents of the exam program
- ability to reflect critically on the contents of the exam program
- ability to autonomously elaborate philosophically founded connections, referring to the texts in the program or even to those in-depth, with respect to the contents of the exam program.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE