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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Servizio sociale in ambiti complessi - 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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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
General and intercultural pedagogy (2021/2022)
Teaching code
4S000590
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Period
Sem. 2A dal Feb 14, 2022 al Mar 26, 2022.
Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING multidisciplinary knowledge aimed at critical analysis of specific social problems ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ability to interpret the different situations of hardship and to promote the well-being of the community; SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES The theoretical knowledge about the intercultural pedagogy will serve to form the ability to recognize and manage in a pedagogically appropriate manner all forms of exclusion and discrimination present in the context in which the Social Worker typically operates and that closely touch the social services . In particular, the placement of pedagogy among other pedagogical responses to complexity will be taken into account. The relevance of intercultural pedagogy will also be taken into account to recognize and face challenges, risks and opportunities in multicultural society. The course will provide intercultural knowledge aimed at identifying indispensable elements in the construction of social interventions in a complex, interdependent and multicultural society.
Program
Course Program
1. Globalization, complexity, crisis of values and crisis of education.
2. The centrality of pedagogy and education in modern society.
3. Strategies of educational and social intervention in the face of pluralism and diversity.
Formative Objectives: The theoretical knowledge about general and intercultural pedagogy will serve to form the ability to recognize and manage in a pedagogically appropriate manner various forms of exclusion and discrimination present in the context in which the specialist Social Worker typically operates and that closely affect social services. In particular, it will take into account the place of pedagogy among other disciplines that provide answers to the challenges of complexity, as well as the relevance of educational intervention to recognize and address risks and opportunities in the face of various forms of alterity (cultural, gender, social, skills, etc.). The course will provide intercultural knowledge and skills to identify indispensable elements in the construction of social interventions in a complex, interdependent and multicultural society.
General part
- PORTERA, A., BÖHM W., SECCO, L., Educabilità, educazione e Pedagogia nella società complessa. Lineamenti introduttivi. UTET, Torino, 2007.
Monographic part
- PORTERA, A., Tesori sommersi. Emigrazione, identità, bisogni educativi interculturali, F. Angeli, Milano, 20134.
- PORTERA, A., MOODLEY, R. & MILANI, M. (Eds.) (2020): Intercultural Mediation, Counseling and Psychotherapy in Europe, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (può essere sostituito da: PORTERA, A., Milani M. (a cura di) Competenze interculturali e successo formativo, ETS Edizioni, Pisa, 2019).
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:
BAUMAN Z. & PORTERA, A., Education and Intercultural Identity. Routledge, London, 2020.
- *Gardner H., Sapere per comprendere. Feltrinelli, Milano, 1999.
- Portera, A. Globalizzazione e pedagogia interculturale, Erickson, Trento, 2006.
- * MILANI, M., Competenze interculturali a scuola. Quiedit, Verona. 2017.
- *PORTERA, A. Manuale di pedagogia interculturale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2017 (4 ed.).
- Portera, A., Dusi, P. (a cura di), Gestione interculturale dei conflitti e mediazione. Franco Angeli, Milano, 2005.
- Portera, A., Dusi, P. (a cura di), Neoliberalismo, Educazione e Competenze interculturali. F. Angeli, Milano, 2016.
- *PORTERA, A., ALBERTINI G., LAMBERTI S., Disabilità dello sviluppo, educazione e Cooperative Learning. Un approccio interculturale. F. Angeli, Milano, 2015.
- Fiorucci M., Pinto Minerva F., Portera A. (a cura di), Gli alfabeti dell’intercultura, Edizioni Ets, Pisa, 2017
- Bruner, J. La cultura dell’educazione. Feltrinelli, Milano, 1997.
- Brezinka, W. L’educazione in una società disorientata. Armando, Roma, 1989.
- Brezinka, W., Obiettivi e limiti dell’educazione, Armando, Roma, 2002.
- Contini M. La comunicazione intersoggettiva fra solitudini e globalizzazione. La Nuova Italia, 2002.
- AA.VV., Educazione interculturale nel contesto internazionale Guerini, Milano, 2006.
- Delors, J. Nell’educazione un Tesoro. Armando, Roma, 1997.
- FAVARO, G. FUMAGALLI, M. (a cura di), capirsi diversi. Idee e pratiche di mediazione interculturale. Carocci, 2004
- Granese, A., Istituzioni di pedagogia generale. CEDAM, Padova, 2003.
- *ANDOLFI, M. (a cura di), Famiglie immigrate e psicoterapia transculturale. F. Angeli, Milano, 2004
- Vico, G., Pedagogia generale e nuovo umanesimo. La Scuola, Brescia, 2002.
- CIPRIANI, R, MARGIOTTA U, et all,, La ricerca pedagogica in Italia. Mazzanti, Venezia, 2007.
- FRABBONI F. et alli, Le parole della Pedagogia, Boringhieri, Torino, 2007.
* text recommended for not-attending students
Bibliography
Examination Methods
The educational and evaluation modalities of learning 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.