Teaching code

4S00785

Teacher

Daniele Loro

Coordinator

Daniele Loro

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION

Period

Sem. 1B dal Nov 13, 2023 al Dec 22, 2023.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding 1. Know the main educational problems and understand more deeply their pedagogical and existential meaning through a linguistic, methodological and reflective philosophical approach. 2. Understand that educational action, like any other professional activity, has in itself an ethical, aesthetic and theoretical dimension, for whose full understanding philosophical reflection is necessary. 3. Know and understand that the philosophical contribution to educational practice and pedagogical reflection ultimately concerns the meaning of educational action. Applying knowledge and understanding 1. Use a cognitive methodology that starts from the educational experience, reads its meaning in philosophical terms and then returns to educational practice. 2. To know how to justify the relationship between educational experience, pedagogical reflection and philosophical theorizing, and to understand the cultural and professional value of this relationship in educational work. 3. To learn directly from philosophical thought further existential, cultural and professional motivations that can strengthen the ability to operate in a competent and responsible way in different educational contexts.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Students are invited to remember the following from their previous study path:
- the constitutive aspects which characterize each educational activity;
- the fundamental contents that are proper to pedagogical knowledge;
- the contents of a philosophical nature which are foreseen by the teaching plan of the degree course in Educational Sciences.

Program

The teaching program is divided into the following topics. Epistemological part: the cognitive identity of the philosophy of education.
─ The historical and current reasons for the presence of philosophical thought in training for educational work and in the field of pedagogical knowledge.
─ The thought paradigm of the Philosophy of Education and its internal articulations.
─ The cognitive characteristics of the philosophy of education; contents, aims, methods and language.
Cognitive part: the fundamental contents
─ Education as an existential experience and as a methodological synthesis between theory and practice.
─ At the heart of the educational experience: the human being as a person and his recognition.
─ At the heart of the theoretical experience: the foundation of cognitive activity: the search for truth and the meaning of human existence.
─ At the center of the ethical experience: the conception of the good, between the desire for freedom and the assumption of responsibility for one's personal and professional actions.
─ At the heart of the aesthetic experience: the need for beauty and its implications.
─ Living in time and space: the experience of human finitude and its possibilities and limits.
Professional part: the operational dimension
─ Educational work: professional life and existential meaning. ─ The action of the educator; between professional ethics and the code of ethics.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The lessons will take place keeping in mind some teaching methods that will alternate according to the needs connected to the work in the classroom and to the development of the programme:  frontal teaching, as the main teaching method, necessary to allow orderly, reasoned and essential learning;  participatory and dialogue teaching, useful for encouraging interventions, reflections and questions from students, questions, on the topics addressed, in the classroom and on the Moodle platform connected to teaching.  reflective teaching: students will be invited to rethink their own educational experience and pedagogical knowledge, in the light of the disciplinary contents being taught, or of further reading, recommended during the lessons. Attendance in the classroom is not compulsory, but it is equally and warmly recommended.

Learning assessment procedures

The verification of learning will take place in the form of the written test, which is compulsory for everyone, without distinction between attending and non-attending students, Italian students and Erasmus students, regular students and students enrolled only in this course The written test will consist of 5 questions open and the maximum duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
For those who are particularly interested in the disciplinary contents, it is possible to request an oral interview to deepen the contents studied. This request must be previously agreed with the teacher.
The oral interview must in no case be understood as a method of verification that can replace the written exam. This additional verification method, in fact, can only take place after the written test has been successfully passed.

Evaluation criteria

A) The evaluation of the exam takes place through the verification of the presence of the following learning skills:
1. knowing how to present the main contents of a specific topic in a summary, linguistically correct and discursively coherent way;
2. being able to identify and correctly define the concepts that represent the cognitive pillars of a specific theory or statement;
3. knowing how to reconstruct the set of arguments that support the reasoning or reflections that are at the basis of the thought of a given author;
4. knowing how to compare different cognitive elements (words, concepts, theories and arguments, catching affinities and differences;
5. knowing how to understand, interpret and translate into practice a certain theoretical content in the ways and forms of a possible practical action;
6. knowing how to reflect on particular concrete experiences and identify in them the presence of possible theoretical foundations.
B) The measurement of learning ability will take place in the following way:
─ a score expressed out of thirty will be assigned to each answer;
─ the final grade of the written test will result from the average of the grades of the single answers, with a score out of thirty, accompanied by a qualitative judgement;
─ any in-depth interview will be evaluated up to a maximum of 3 points, which will be added to the final grade.
C) Articulation of the evaluation through the numerical score and a corresponding qualitative judgement.
< - 13 (Severely insufficient)
14 – 15 (Very insufficient)
16 – 17 (Insufficient)
18 (Barely sufficient)
19 – 21 (Adequate)
22 – 24 (Fair)
25 – 27 (Good) 30
– 28 (Very good)
30 cum laude (Excellent)

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The composition of the final mark derives from the average of the marks of the single answers given to the questions of the assignment. In the event that a student submits a written report or requests to carry out an in-depth oral interview, 1 to 3 points may be added to the grade of the written assignment.

Exam language

Italiano