Teaching code

4S007342

Teacher

Alessandra Pantano

Coordinator

Alessandra Pantano

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 25, 2023 al Nov 4, 2023.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

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

On the teaching of philosophy starting from Maria Zambrano. The course will focus on some concepts that the Spanish philosopher Maria Zambrano thought about starting from her experience as a teacher and student. Some lemmas such as "classroom" "vocation" "feeling" "dream" "guide" which may be useful for thinking about the teaching of philosophy, will be objects of reflection. The objective of the course is to understand how it is possible to avoid teaching from becoming a rather indifferent choice of content and how it is instead possible for the philosophy taught to become a vital exercise of knowledge. Towards the end of the course, a laboratory lesson will be organized in which it will be proposed to set up, individually or in groups, a lesson proposing texts taken from the history of Western thought. The bibliography of the course: 1. Maria Zambrano, For love and for freedom. Writings on philosophy and education, edited by A. Buttarelli, Marietti, Bologna 2021. 2. AA. VV., School. Philosophy of a world, Cronopio, Naples 2023. Other texts and films for possible further study and reflection: A. Caputo, Philosophy teaching manual, Armando Editore, Rome 2019, chaps. 3-4-5. A. Gaiani, Teaching concepts. Philosophy in today's school, Carocci, Rome 2012, pp. 13-76. L. Illeterati (ed.), Teaching philosophy. Models of thought and teaching practices, Utet, Turin 2007, pp. IX-XXVII, pp. 67-78. «The wave», Dennis Gansel, 2008. Gustavo Zalgrabesky, The lesson, Einaudi, Torni 2022.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures Reading of texts in the classroom Simulation of lessons. The simulation is scheduled in a lesson before the end of the course. On a voluntary basis, attending students will be invited to simulate a lesson to be delivered in a class to give the opportunity to measure themselves with a teaching method. Discussions on relevant course issues. During the whole course, moments of discussion will be encouraged by following the stimuli that the phases of the course, the theoretical and the applicative ones, offer. ALL LESSONS WILL BE RECORDED

Learning assessment procedures

The exam will be oral.

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