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.

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea in Scienze del servizio sociale - Enrollment from 2025/2026

SOFT SKILLS  

Find out more about the Soft Skills courses for Univr students provided by the University's Teaching and Learning Centre: https://talc.univr.it/it/competenze-trasversali 

CONTAMINATION LAB 

The Contamination Lab Verona (CLab Verona) is an experiential course with modules on innovation and enterprise culture that offers the opportunity to work in teams with students from all areas to solve challenges set by companies and organisations.  

Upon completion of a CLab, students will be entitled to receive 6 CFU (D- or F-type credits).  

Find out more:  https://www.univr.it/clabverona 

PLEASE NOTE: In order to be admitted to any teaching activities, including those of your choice, you must be enrolled in the academic year in which the activities in question are offered. Students who are about to graduate in the December and April sessions are therefore advised NOT to undertake extracurricular activities in the new academic year in which they are not enrolled, as these graduation sessions are valid for students enrolled in the previous academic year. Therefore, students who undertake an activity in an academic year in which they are not enrolled will not be granted CFU credits.  

Academic year:
Prima parte del primo semestre From 9/25/23 To 11/4/23
years Modules TAF Teacher
2° 3° Invisible plots in contemporary reality D Rosanna Cima (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Ciclo tematico di conferenze – sulla "leadership femminile": dati, riflessioni ed esperienze D Paola Dal Toso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Ten years of dreams, lapsus, missed acts". Ten years anniversary of 'TIRESIA', Research Centre for Philosophy and Psychoanalysis D Matteo Bonazzi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° University and DSA - Methods and strategies for tackling study and university studies D Gianluca Solla (Coordinator)
Seconda parte del primo semestre From 11/13/23 To 12/22/23
years Modules TAF Teacher
2° 3° Art, memory and terrorism: the duty to protect our cultural heritage D Olivia Guaraldo (Coordinator)
2° 3° Invisible plots in contemporary reality D Rosanna Cima (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Ciclo tematico di conferenze – sulla "leadership femminile": dati, riflessioni ed esperienze D Paola Dal Toso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Ten years of dreams, lapsus, missed acts". Ten years anniversary of 'TIRESIA', Research Centre for Philosophy and Psychoanalysis D Matteo Bonazzi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Seminar of political science D Massimo Prearo (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° University and DSA - Methods and strategies for tackling study and university studies D Gianluca Solla (Coordinator)
Prima parte del secondo semestre From 2/19/24 To 3/29/24
years Modules TAF Teacher
2° 3° Cities and Freedom D Giacomo Mormino (Coordinator)
2° 3° Education and affectivity - 200 years after Christian education by Antonio Rosmini D Fernando Bellelli (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Ten years of dreams, lapsus, missed acts". Ten years anniversary of 'TIRESIA', Research Centre for Philosophy and Psychoanalysis D Matteo Bonazzi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Gnoseology and Metaphysics Workshop D Davide Poggi (Coordinator)
Seconda parte del secondo semestre From 4/9/24 To 5/31/24
years Modules TAF Teacher
2° 3° Cities and Freedom D Giacomo Mormino (Coordinator)
2° 3° Philosophy and politics of care D Alessia Maria Aurora Bevilacqua (Coordinator)
2° 3° Verso le elezioni europee 2024 D Massimo Prearo (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Legal clinics D Alessia Maria Aurora Bevilacqua (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Ten years of dreams, lapsus, missed acts". Ten years anniversary of 'TIRESIA', Research Centre for Philosophy and Psychoanalysis D Matteo Bonazzi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Gnoseology and Metaphysics Workshop D Davide Poggi (Coordinator)
List of courses with unassigned period
years Modules TAF Teacher
2° 3° Narratives. A tool for social workers D Cristina Lonardi (Coordinator)
2° 3° Verona History D Giacomo Mormino (Coordinator)

Teaching code

4S007389

Coordinator

Rosanna Cima

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

Sem. 2A dal Feb 19, 2024 al Mar 29, 2024.

Courses Single

Authorized

Learning objectives

General learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding of the principles concerning the listening attitude
Knowledge and understanding of the empathic relationship management
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
Ability to develop a collaborative and constructive relationship both with the user and the other professional roles involved in the helping processes. Specific learning outcomes
The teaching aims to transfer basic knowledge relating to the care process in the social pedagogy with the purpose of understanding the needs of the beneficiaries of the services. Particular attention will be given to the bearers of the new frailties of the current social context. The knowledge is linked to the skills of non-judgmental listening, to narrative competence as transformation of situations of empasse, to the holistic and geopolitical vision of situations of fragility and to the identification of areas of empowerment related to both the individual and his family group and / or the group to which they belong (linguistic, religious, cultural). Secondly, the teaching offers basic knowledge of the main narrative tools aimed at identifying, understanding, evaluating and accompanying the beneficiaries of the services in a participatory form, seeking ways of working in a small group according to the practices of popular pedagogies. To identify potential and resources in those who access the social service, in their life environment, in their history in order to activate ways of project creation with users, with other services and supporting networks in the territory.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Knowledge acquired on the areas of helping relationships.

Program

Caring for the other implies, on an existential, social and educational work level, also caring for oneself. Caring work, the 'care' (expression of what we care about) is an act that touches the emotional, personal and professional spheres. The lecture will attempt to answer the following question: what posture can social workers embody in their care work?
We will reflect on concrete situations that cross the following themes
- maternity cultures and child protection;
- ageing of the population and the care of narratives
- third spaces as vital places of mediation and care
- expert users' and the relationship with social, educational, health services.
The 'orientation' tool will be tested as a map for caring for oneself and for the other.
MANDATORY:
1) Luigina Mortari, La pratica dell’aver cura, Bruno Mondadori, 2006 (studiare introduzione fino a p. 16; da p. 111 a p. 152 e da p. 179 a p. 201)..
2) Letizia Bianchi, Cura familiare, cura professionale, (da p. 71 a p. 93), in Colombo, Cocever, Bianchi (a cura), Il lavoro di cura. Come si impara, come si insegna, Carocci, 2004.

A TEXT OF YOUR CHOICE
- Alga ML, Cima R (a cura), Culture della maternità e narrazioni generative, Franco Angeli, 2022.
- Alga M.L., Cima R., Allargare il cerchio. Pratiche per una comune umanità, Progedit, 2020.
- Cima R., Pratiche narrative per una pedagogia dell’invecchiare, Franco Angeli, 2012.
- Lambertini L., La responsabilità della violenza. Un modello di intervento socioeducativo nel contrasto alla violenza contro le donne, Il Mulino, 2019.
- John McKnight, Assistenti sociali disabilitanti, (da p. 73 a p. 91), in Ivan Illich et al., Esperti di Troppo. Il paradosso delle professioni disabilitanti, Erikson 2008.
- Simona Taliani, Non esistono culture innocenti. Gli antropologi, le famiglie spossessate e i bambini adottabili, L’Uomo, 2014, n. 2, pp. 45 -65 (articolo in rivista)
- Simona Taliani, Antropologie dell'infanzia e della famiglia immigrata, Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica / 39-40, ottobre 2015, pp. 17-70 (articolo in rivista)
- Buchi Emecheta, Cittadina di seconda classe, Giunti (ROMANZO)

Bibliography

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Didactic methods

Teaching takes place in an active form, theoretical content is addressed through the analysis of concrete situations.
We will be confronted with a cultural mediator and an 'expert user'.
During the teaching we will experience 'orientation', a narrative tool for caring for oneself and the other person.

Learning assessment procedures

The examination will take place in small groups of 2/3 students and students will be asked to present the written outline of a "case study" provided by the lecturer on a topic covered during the lectures (migrant families, child protection, mental health, elderly, disability, empowerment of fragile subjects, ...). This will be followed by a presentation and group discussion.
The theoretical parts of the study texts and lectures are to be integrated into the case study.
Erasmus students must meet with the lecturer BEFORE the start of the lesson
To discuss attendance and exam preparation. Write to: rosanna.cima@univr.it

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Evaluation criteria

Students are required to demonstrate that they
- have acquired the theoretical foundations of care related to the study texts and lectures
- to be able to connect the contents of the lectures with their own practice experience in relation to caring for others
- to be able to critically and self-critically analyse complex situations presented in the lecture
- to formulate arguments related to the topics of the teaching in a critical, proactive manner, highlighting doubts, possible proposals for interpreting the transformations of the needs of the beneficiaries of the services.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The evaluation of the examination is in thirtieths

Exam language

italiano francese spagnolo