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Sociology of Education and Anthropology - ANTROPOLOGIA (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S006130
Teacher
Credits
4
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-DEA/01 - DEMOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Period
Sem. 2B dal Apr 6, 2020 al May 16, 2020.
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course the student should:
- have a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology in the various fields of relational anthropology, visions of the world, political anthropology, economics, social inequalities and the modern globalized world in order to comparatively understand human variation from a social and cultural viewpoint;
- have a knowledge of the most widespread social and cultural inequality construction processes in order to understand the main forms of racism in the contemporary world
Applying knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, the student should be able:
- to promote cultural decentralization and therefore the affective, cognitive, relational and socio-cultural autonomies of the people with whom the student will work;
- to use anthropological knowledge to intervene in marginality situations and integration difficulties, also through the recognition and promotion of different family education models and different cultural styles of learning of the people with whom the student will work;
- to plan, create and evaluate educational projects in an anti-racist perspective of social inclusion and intercultural dialogue
Making judgements
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired:
- the capacity to question the socio-cultural variation of models and educational processes;
- the capacity to critically analyze, outline and implement educational and didactic interventions with an inclusivity and inter-cultural dialogue perspective.
Communication skills
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- consciously and critically use specific terms relating to socio-cultural diversity;
- inform pupils, colleagues, parents and others of his/her own curricular choices and know how to constructively compare his/her own decisions with other people's views.
Learning skills
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- recognize the pupils' various educational background models and different learning styles and adopt suitable didactic strategies;
- consider himself/herself to be within a permanent learning trend in terms of the fluidity of socio-cultural processes in contemporary school education
Program
Requirements
No particular requirements needed.
Content
The course content regards:
- introduction to the conceptual methods and tools of basic socio-cultural anthropology (especially the concepts of culture and society);
- the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology in the various fields of relational anthropology, visions of the world, political anthropology, economics, social inequalities and the modern globalized world;
- the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology in the study of the various forms of present-day racism.
Teaching methods
Lectures in which numerous ethnographic examples (also taken from the professional context of Infant and Primary Schools) will be presented to support the teaching/learning of the discipline's basic concepts
Text:
E. A. Schultz e R. H. Lavenda, 2015, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna (only the third Italian edition).
- only study chapters 1-2-3-7-8-9-10-12-14
- in chap.10, study from page 254 to page 266
- in chap. 11, study from page 287 to page 295
- in chapter 14, do not study from page 413 to page 424
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. A. Schultz e R. H. Lavenda | Antropologia culturale (Edizione 3) | Zanichelli | 2015 | 978-88-08-15131-5 |
Examination Methods
Learning assessment method
The assessment method will be NO different for attending and non-attending students.
Learning levels will be assessed by a written examination.
The student must be able to demonstrate:
- to have understood the important elements of the discipline's main theoretical arguments;
- to be able to express their own reasoning in a precise manner and in a limited amount of time, identifying and selecting the essential elements;
- to be able to critically analyze and connect the ethnographic examples studied to the theory.
Results
The results of the examination will be given on a scale of thirty.
The written examination will contain 31 multiple-choice questions (max 31 points). The written examination will last for 45 minutes.
