Teaching code

4S006130

Credits

8

Coordinatore

Fabio Vicini

Language

Italian

Moodle Seminars

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

First part: ANTHROPOLOGY
1. 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
2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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

Second part: SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
1. Knowledge and Understanding
- Knowledge of the fundaments of the reasoning and the sociological method, with specific reference to the contents of the sociology of education.
- Knowledge of the main functions of education systems in contemporary societies (cultural transmission, socialization, social selection).
- Knowledge, on a diachronic and analytical level, of the main transformations in the systems of education of western societies in the globalization era;
2. Knowledge and ability to understand in practice
At the end of the course the students will be able:
- To interpret the meaning of the organizational forms of socialization systems for early childhood.
- To encourage forms of reorganization of the socialization context, to make it concretely functional to the educational and educational objectives.
- To interpret the legislative indications concerning the institutionalized systems of primary socialization and adapt them to specific cases.
- To develop primary socialization projects to be applied in specific contexts.
3. Making Judgments
At the end of the course the students will be able:
- To evaluate the impact of policies deployed by policy-makers on primary socialization and early childhood education services.
- To observe, analytically and critically, the institutionalized contexts of primary socialization “as they are”, rather than “as they should be”.
- To organize their competence in the observation and description of the social worlds linked to primary socialization.
4. Communication Skills
At the end of the course the students will have to:
- Know and use the specific sociological vocabulary in order to education and primary education systems.
- Define the referents in the concrete reality of the analyzed concepts and knowing how to properly name them.
- Know how to manage some aspects of the content of social analysis of childcare and basic education systems to be used specifically in educational teams.
5. Learning Skills
At the end of the course the students will have to:
- Be able to analyze the institutionalized systems of primary socialization by observing similarities and differences.
- To experiment autonomous analysis capacity of institutionalized systems of primary socialization.
- Be able to interpret the transformations of the basic school systems from the point of view of sociale contemporary transformation.

Program

------------------------ MM: ANTROPOLOGIA ------------------------ The course is introductory. Therefore no previous knowledge of the topic is required. Contents: The main contents of the course are the following: - Introduction to the methods and conceptual tools of the cultural anthropologist: the concept of culture, a brief introductory note on the history of the discipline and on the ethnographic method; - The main acquisitions of anthropology regarding human worldviews and creativity: play, myth, art, rituals, religion, and the cognitive dimension; - The anthropological perspective on social dimensions of human life such as family, power, politics, economics, and forms of human organization; - The contribution of the discipline to the study of inequality both on a local and a global scale; - The applicability of anthropology to local and national policies with special emphasis on migration and refugee issues (illustrated through selected case studies). The course is based on frontal lessons generally supported by multimedia content (slides, videos, and photos). The teaching will also be supported by the exploration of specific ethnographic cases in the second part of the course. Note: In the cases provided by the law and/or of particular measures adopted by the University, the teaching activities might be conducted from remote. Main text for the final exam: E. A. Schultz e R. H. Lavenda, 2021, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna (4th edition only). Study only chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 13 - of chap. 6, study only from p. 139 to p. 152 and from p. 160 to p. 170 - of chap. 11, study only from p. 295 to p. 310 and from p. 320 to p. 332 - of chap. 13, study only from p. 387 to p. 408 ------------------------ MM: SOCIOLOGIA DELL'EDUCAZIONE ------------------------ The contents of the course will concern: - An initial alignment with the sociological study of reality to identify its peculiarities with respect to other approaches in the field of education sciences; - The study of the evolution of the "social phenomenon" along the timeline that runs from pre-modernity, to modernity, to advanced modernity, with specific reference to the birth and evolution of education systems. - The study of the main theoretical lines related to the theme of socialization, with particular reference to primary socialization; - The study of the functioning of the main primary socialization agencies (family and school). - The study and analysis of the main social functions of institutionalized systems of primary socialization in modern and contemporary societies; - The study and analysis of the main transformations of basic education systems in the historical and socio-economic context of globalized societies. - Further monographic insights on specific topics related to education systems (for example, evaluation systems in schools as social products).

Bibliography

Examination Methods

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MM: ANTROPOLOGIA
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The examination consists of a single written test. There is no difference between attending and non-attending students. a) Objectives: The students will have to demonstrate to: - have understood and assimilated the key notions and the main theoretical debates of the discipline; - be able to synthesize and expose rigorously their arguments in a limited time, demonstrating the capacity of selecting the essential elements in the written exposition; - be able to associate each argument and theoretical synthesis with one or more ethnographic examples among those treated in class and/or illustrated in the monographic texts. b) Assessment Methods: The written examination will consist of 31 multiple-choice questions (1 correct option only; maximum score: 31 points) on the textbook by E. A. Schultz and R. H. Lavenda. The entire examination will last 45 minutes. Note: In the cases provided by the law and/or of particular measures adopted by the University, the examination might be conducted from remote. c) Evaluation methods: The evaluation of the written examination will be in thirtieths.
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MM: SOCIOLOGIA DELL'EDUCAZIONE
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Two alternative assessment methods are proposed, among which the student can choose. 1. "Traditional" mode: - Production of a written text on open questions starting from the recommended texts. 2. "Step" mode: - first step: production of a written text starting from the reflection and personal re-elaboration of the contents proposed in the classroom (in itinere); - second step: production of a written work and a multimedia production to be presented publicly in the classroom on occasions dedicated to a topic related to the sociology of culture and which do not directly form the curricular contents of the course; - third step: oral examination on specific parts of the program. In both cases, the final evaluation derives from the average of the results obtained in each test and will be expressed in thirtieths.