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2° Year It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026
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Didactical Methods in teaching Philosophy (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S007342
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Period
Sem. 1A dal Sep 23, 2024 al Oct 31, 2024.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
Didactical Methods of Teaching Philosophy: We aim at acquiring cognitive and hermeneutical competencies: a) about the most prominent discussions, within the Western history of philosophy, on teaching philosophy and ‘making philosophy’ with others; b) about the recent Italian debates on teaching philosophy, with reference to demands of philosophical education also in extra-scholastic contexts, with proper distinctions of recipients, philosophical demands and didactical contexts; c) about documents and and different ways useful for teaching philosophy. We will also try to encourage students' seminar as well, in order to improve students’ skills to organise real lessons on the on topics chosen by the students themselves.
Prerequisites and basic notions
There are no prerequisites.
Program
Teaching Philosophy According to Henri Bergson and Maria Zambrano. Starting from the philosophical reflections of Henri Bergson and Maria Zambrano, the course will investigate concepts and images useful for thinking about the teaching of philosophy. Some texts by the two philosophers dedicated to teaching will be examined to understand what happens in the classroom, when philosophy is taught, and to discover what links the teacher to the subject he teaches. Towards the end of the course, a laboratory lesson will be organized in which it will be proposed to set up, individually or in a group, a lesson proposing texts taken from the history of Western thought. All the texts will be provided by the teacher during the course: - The texts by Maria Zambrano are «The Two Questions», «Communication between the Senses», «Life in the Classrooms», «An Arab Parable». The texts are taken from Maria Zambrano, Per l’amore e per la libertà. Scritti sulla filosofia e sull’educazione, a cura di A. Buttarelli, Marietti, Bologna 2021. - Henri Bergson's texts are: «Specialization», «Potesse», «Common sense and classical studies», «Intelligence». They are taken from M.T. Russo, Henri Bergson educatore. Virtù intellettuali, insegnamento, saperi umanistici, Armando Editore, Roma 2021, pp. 132-162.
Other texts and films for further study and reflection:
AA. VV., Scuola. Filosofia di un mondo, Cronopio, Napoli 2023
A. Caputo, Manuale di didattica della filosofia, Armando Editore, Roma 2019, capp. 3-4-5.
L. Illeterati (a cura di), Insegnare filosofia. Modelli di pensiero e pratiche didattiche, Utet, Torino 2007, pp. IX-XXVII, pp. 67-78.
«La sala professori», film di Ilker Çatak (2023).
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Frontal lessons Reading of texts in class Discussions on the relevant issues of the course. During the whole course, moments of discussion will be encouraged following the stimuli that the phases of the course, the theoretical and the applicative, offer.
Learning assessment procedures
The exam will be oral. 1. For the theoretical part of the course, the following will be assessed: knowledge of the fundamental points of the course, reflections on Barthes' teaching and his teaching experiments; attention to different teaching methods; understanding of the usefulness of an integrated approach to philosophical texts; awareness of the role and function of teaching philosophy. The score assigned to this part is up to a maximum of 20/30. 2. For the practical part, during the exam, it will be proposed to prepare a simulation of a lesson to be delivered. The following will therefore be assessed: the ability to apply the knowledge acquired to develop a personal teaching proposal. the ability to discuss the knowledge acquired and to present it to others. The score assigned to this second part is up to a maximum of 10/30. The exam format is the same for attending and non-attending students.
Evaluation criteria
The following will be assessed: - knowledge of the fundamental points of the course, some concepts of Kierkegaard's philosophy useful for thinking about internal communication in the teaching of philosophy; attention to the ways that teach philosophy; - understanding the usefulness of an integrated approach to philosophical texts; awareness of the role and function of teaching philosophy. the ability to apply the acquired knowledge to elaborate a personal didactic proposal. the ability to discuss the knowledge acquired and to expose it to others. For attending and non-attending students, the exam procedure is the same.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final grade will be expressed out of thirty.
Exam language
italiano
