Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
This information is intended exclusively for future freshmen who will enroll for the 2025/2026 academic year.If you are already enrolled in this course of study, consult the information available on the course page:
Bachelor's degree in Social Work - Enrollment until 2024/2025The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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3° Year It will be activated in the A.Y. 2027/2028
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One module to be chosen between the followingLegend | 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.
Special Pedagogy (2025/2026)
Teaching code
4S000588
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-PED/03 - METHODOLOGIES OF TEACHING AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
Period
Sem. 1B dal Nov 10, 2025 al Dec 24, 2025.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
Knowledge and understanding - Knowledge and understanding of the determinants of bio-psycho-social well being; Knowledge and understanding of the organizational structure of social services institutions and structures; Knowledge and understanding of the bio-psycho-social roots of the individual needs; Knowledge and understanding of the principles concerning the listening attitude - Knowledge and understanding of the empathic relationship; Ability to apply Knowledge and understanding - Ability to recognize the main causes of people needs and distinguish among their social, familiar and personal roots. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES By the end of the course, students will have acquired those pedagogical and educational skills necessary for practicing the social worker profession. More in detail, the course aims at teaching students how to asses needs, how to define the main goals of a social intervention and finally how to evaluate the outcomes regarding different forms of disability, addiction, mental suffering, and other forms of social marginality.
Prerequisites and basic notions
No prerequisites
Program
The course contributes to the formation of those pedagogical and educational skills that are a constituent part of the professionalism of the Social Workers.
In particular, the Special Pedagogy course aims to provide knowledge (applying knowledge and understanding) for analysis and intervention, from the pedagogical point of view, in disability, addictions, and other forms of social marginality, including juveniles and older people, according to a bio-psycho-social perspective and from the standpoint of Community Welfare.
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to demonstrate:
• knowing how to use the functioning profile (according to the ICF classification) for the analysis of the special needs of the person in a condition of disability/dependence/marginality and the search for a better quality of life;
• be able to define some intervention objectives, according to an evidence-based logic, within the individual project envisaged by Law no. 328/00 (Article 14).
• distinguish the outputs, outcomes, and impacts of social work, with an initial orientation to evaluation models and tools;
• to know the main application implications of the paradigm of social generativity in social work.
General contents
1. The multidimensional bio-psycho-social perspective according to the definition of the World Health Organization (ICF)
2. Disability and dependencies: international definitions, normative references
3. ICF and Quality of Life: comparison models for needs assessment and definition of interventions
4. Evaluation of performance, outcomes, and impacts: methodology and tools in working with fragile citizens according to an evidence-based logic
5. The paradigm of social generativity in the intervention in favor of people with disabilities and other fragilities
6. Individual project and life project: from needs to objectives to context planning to evaluation of results.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
The lessons will be conducted face-to-face through frontal methods, encouraging interaction with students. Students will be invited to deepen some aspects and be exposed to their classmates.
Learning assessment procedures
The learning will be verified through a written test to ascertain the achievement of the training objectives. The exam will be structured into 25 multiple-choice questions concerning the study texts and an open question on an argument chosen by the student from the course program.
The examination procedures are not differentiated between attending and non-attending students.
Erasmus students will have to take the exam like other students, in Italian.
Students who intend to take the exam as a single course are invited to contact the teacher for information on the topic to be explored.
Evaluation criteria
The first 25 questions will be awarded 1/30 points for each correct answer; scoring at least 13 points in this part of the exam is necessary. The open request can be awarded up to 5/30 points.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
Any exercises carried out/by the student individually or in a small group, valued only in the event of a positive exam outcome, will be eligible for the overall evaluation.
Exam language
italiano
