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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Scienze pedagogiche - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Intercultural Competences (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S000569
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
9
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Period
Sem. 2A, Sem. 2B
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding 1. Knowing and Understanding the fundamental concepts of intercultural competences, their operating methods and the limits of their measurement. 2. Understanding the meaning and value of working and research methods of intercultural education in different contexts. Applying knowledge and understanding 1. Improving the own intercultural competences, by development of practical educational projects and pedagogical researches. 2. Using the acquired intercultural competences, verifying their validity and effectiveness in all the situations, especially in those characterized by conflicts generated by ethnic, social or cultural differences. 3. Developing the ability of learning from own personal, cultural and professional experience in heterogeneous contexts.
Program
1. Fundamental elements of general and intercultural pedagogy:
- fundamental elements of general pedagogy and new pedagogical movements (problematicism, empiricism, personalism);
- epistemology and development of transcultural and multicultural pedagogy;
- epistemology and development of intercultural pedagogy.
2. Researches and models of intercultural competences:
- critical reflection on models and theories of intercultural competence;
- modus operandi and limitations on the assessment of intercultural competences;
- functioning of a model of intercultural competences developed in Verona.
3. Methods of intercultural education in the educational practice:
- intercultural competence at school, at home, in the jobs, in the media and in society;
- management of conflicts and intercultural mediation;
- cooperative learning, problem solving, management of heterogeneous and complex groups.
BOOKS (total books that have to be studied:5. Four are the same for all the students, one has to be freely chosen)
General part
1) PORTERA, A., Manuale di Pedagogia interculturale, Laterza, Roma, 2020.
Monographic part
2) CHOEN-EMERIQUE, M., Per un approccio interculturale nelle professioni sociali e educative. Erickson, Trento, 2017.
3) AA.VV., Gestione dei conflitti e mediazione interculturale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2005.
4) MILANI, M., A scuola di competenze interculturali. Metodi e pratiche pedagogiche per l’inclusione scolastica. F. Angeli, Milano, 2017.
The course includes theoretical-practical exercises that are an integral part of the exam programme. One of the following texts (that won’t have to be used for other exams) has to be used to analyze in depth the practical part:
- *PORTERA, A., Milani M. (a cura di) Competenze interculturali e successo formativo, Ets Edizioni, Pisa, 2019.
- *PORTERA, A., BÖHM W., SECCO, L., Educabilità, educazione e Pedagogia nella società complessa. UTET, Torino, 2007.
- *BAUMAN Z. & PORTERA, A., Education and Intercultural Identity. Routledge, London, 2021.
- *Portera, A., Dusi, P. (a cura di), Neoliberalismo, Educazione e Competenze interculturali. Franco Angeli, Milano, 2016.
- AA.VV., Competenze interculturali, Angeli, Milano, 2013.
- *AA.VV., Educazione interculturale alla cittadinanza, Carocci, Roma, 2008.
- *PORTERA, A, LA MARCA, A. CATARCI, M., Pedagogia interculturale, La Scuola, Brescia, 2015.
- SANTERINI, M., Formazione Interculturale: teoria e pratica. Unicopli, Milano, 2007.
- GUIDETTI, B., Educazione e pedagogia interculturale in azienda. Angeli, Milano, 2008.
- AGOSTI A. (A CURA DI), La formazione, Franco Angeli, Milano 2006
- *BALLOI C. (2021), La diversità nei luoghi di lavoro. Modelli, approcci e competenza pedagogica interculturale per il diversity management, Milano, FrancoAngeli (free download).
- CORTE, M., Comunicazione e giornalismo interculturale, CEDAM, Padova, 2006.
- LAMBERTI S., Apprendimento cooperativo e educazione interculturale, Erickson, Trento, 2010.
- *PORTERA, A. Globalizzazione e pedagogia interculturale, Erickson, Trento, 2006.
- PORTERA, A., La pedagogia interculturale nella teoria e nella pratica, CEDAM, Padova, 2000
- NIGRIS E., (a cura di), Pedagogia e didattica interculturale, Pearson, Milano 215.
- ANDOLFI, M. (a cura di), Famiglie immigrate e psicoterapia transculturale. F. Angeli, Milano, 2004
- FAVARO, G. FUMAGALLI, M. (a cura di), capirsi diversi. Idee e pratiche di mediazione interculturale. Carocci, 2004
- GIUSTI, M., Teorie e metodi di pedagogia interculturale, Utet, Roma, 2017
- FIORUCCI M., Pinto Minerva F., Portera A. (a cura di), Gli alfabeti dell’intercultura, Edizioni Ets, Pisa, 2017.
- *PORTERA, A., ALBERTINI G., LAMBERTI S., Disabilità dello sviluppo, educazione e Cooperative Learning. Un approccio interculturale, F. Angeli, Milano, 2015.
* text recommended for not-attending students
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Milani, M. | A scuola di competenze interculturali. Metodi e pratiche pedagogiche per l'inclusione scolastica | FrancoAngeli | 2017 | Quarto libro /Fourth Book Mandatory/Obbligatorio PS Another book has to be chosen from the list in the program (total books: 5)/ Oltre ai libri obbligatori è necessario scegliere un testo tra quelli presenti nella lista. In totale i libri da studiare sono 5. | |
AA.VV., | Gestione dei conflitti e mediazione interculturale | FrancoAngeli | 2005 | Terzo libro /Third book Mandatory/Obbligatorio PS Another book has to be chosen from the list in the program (total books: 5)/ Oltre ai libri obbligatori è necessario scegliere un testo tra quelli presenti nella lista. In totale i libri da studiare sono 5. | |
PORTERA, A. | Manuale di Pedagogia interculturale | Laterza | 2020 | Primo libro / First book Mandatory/Obbligatorio PS Another book has to be chosen from the list in the program (total books: 5)/ Oltre ai libri obbligatori è necessario scegliere un testo tra quelli presenti nella lista. In totale i libri da studiare sono 5. | |
CHOEN-EMERIQUE, M. | Per un approccio interculturale nelle professioni sociali e educative. | Erickson | 2017 | Secondo libro/ Second book Mandatory/Obbligatorio PS Another book has to be chosen from the list in the program (total books: 5)/ Oltre ai libri obbligatori è necessario scegliere un testo tra quelli presenti nella lista. In totale i libri da studiare sono 5. |
Examination Methods
The educational and evaluation learning modalities will be communicated at the beginning of the lessons. The exam aims at verifying the level of achievement of the educational objectives previously mentioned. The exam is oral on all the textbooks.