Teaching code

4S00989

Credits

9

Coordinator

Luca Giovanni Michelangelo Ganzerla

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PED/02 - HISTORY OF PEDAGOGY AND EDUCATION

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

The course includes two equally distributed parts.
The first part deals with Children’s Literature. The purpose is to create a deep and scientifically based knowledge of: Children’s Literature and its main features; a selection of fundamental books and authors; formal and content features of picturebooks, illustrated books, novels, fairy tales and poems; the editorial production for toddlers, children and adolescents.
The second part of the course deals with Pedagogy of reading, with a continuous and circular link between theory and practice. The lessons focus on reading promotion as a means for creating motivated and critical readers through specific methodologies and an accurate theoretical framework. The purpose of the course is to promote the knowledge of: the reading crisis in Italy; children’s needs and the metamorphosis of the reader in the Digital Era; the shortcomings of the most widespread reading promotion activities; the features of high quality reading promotion aimed at creating motivated and critical readers (from the age of 3 to 10/11); the act of reading, the pleasure of reading and the motivation to read; methods and strategies for an effective reading promotion (including activities such as, for instance, read-aloud techniques and literary games).

Program

The course includes two parts.
The first part deals with Children’s Literature and the topics are: definitions, features (style, topics, characters), historical evolution and new educational functions of Children’s Literature; a selection of fundamental books (“Pinocchio”, fairytales,…) and authors (Collodi, Lindgren, Dahl, Munari, Ungerer, Milani, Morpurgo…) of the past and of the present; opportunities and threats of different editorial products.
The second part deals with Pedagogy of reading and aims at creating motivated and critical readers through the best Children’s Literature. The topics are: the reading crisis in Italy, in the contemporary multimodal society and in the Digital Era; the metamorphosis of the reader and the new reading needs of children and young adults; problematic aspects of reading promotion projects inside and outside the school environment in Italy; a new promotion paradigm: literacy promotion purposes, features, and phases through the best Children’s books; literacy promotion methods and strategies to achieve motivation and critical reading; analytical methods and strategies for the selection of the most suitable books and media (picturebooks, fairy tales, novels and poems) destined to different age groups (pre-school and primary school).

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Examination Methods

The exam consists of a two-hour written test with a mix of multiple choice questions; semi-open and open questions. Each student is also expected to produce a short report about a book (chosen from a selection provided by the professor), based on the criteria and techniques discussed during the course.
The present programme is valid for one academic year 2018/2019, i.e. until February 2019.
There is no difference between attending and distance-learning students, but attendance is strongly recommended, whenever possible, so that students may experience and contribute to the workshop-based teaching.