Studying at the University of Verona
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Study Plan
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Laurea in Scienze del servizio sociale - 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.
Pedagogy of adult life (2011/2012)
Teaching code
4S02347
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Period
Sem. 1B dal Nov 21, 2011 al Jan 22, 2012.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to offer a general view about adult life and its existential dynamics, which will probably become useful in order to understand the difficult situations and troubles which most of the adults can meet and a social worker meets in his job.
Particularly, the first object is one of “cognitive” type: at the end of the course the student will be able to distinguish the periods of adult life and their evolution during the centuries, with particular reference to the problem of “life specific key passages” and of their critic implications.
The second object is one of “operative” type: at the end of the course the student will be able to project new ways of dialogue with adults, following methodologies that are suitable to their situations.
The third object is one of “formative” type: at the end of the course the student will have the knowledge referring to the interior dimension of adult life, being aware it can be a propitious site where one can activate processes of self-care and of changing.
Program
Contents
The course will deal with the following topics:
- Adult life as a problem
- Who the adults are: theories and existential analysis
- Experiences of suffering and discomfort
- Becoming adult: an ever identical and different way
- Work and profession, essential elements of adult life
- Adult life and maturity: experience of maturation in life
- Looking for identity: the part of interior life
- Educational projects with adults having problems.
Texts for the exam
Mandatory for everybody:
- D. Loro, Vivere da adulti. Dispensa 2011-2012 ( The “dispensa” will be available at the end of the course by the cartoleria Ateneo, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 37 . www.ateneovr.it ).
- A. Marcoli, Passaggi di vita. Le crisi che ci spingono a crescere, Milano, ed. Arnoldo Mondadori, 2004, reprint 2009.
Suggested Tests for the thorough personal study:
- V. Andreoli, L’uomo di vetro. La forza della fragilità, Milano, ed. RCS Libri, 2008.
- R. Gnocchi, Pedagogia del disagio adulto. Dialogo interdisciplinare e accompagnamento educativo, Milano, ed. Unicopli, 2008.
Teaching methods
Lessons will be frontal in the main, with the possibility to intervene with questions and short debates related to the themes of the day.
Examination Methods
The exam consists of a three-hour written text. It consists of 6 open questions, of summarising, argumentative and reflective type.
