Teaching code

4S008184

Teacher

Antonietta De Vita

Coordinatore

Antonietta De Vita

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

Sem. 2A, Sem. 2B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding 1. Experience, understand and interpret educational situations from a gender perspective, particularly as regards the signifiers: “difference” and “differences”. 2. Be familiar with the principal theories underpinning the feminist cause and the field of gender studies, and the core themes in the area of gender education. 3. Explore the application of the acquired learning in real education/pedagogical projects in different contexts. Applying knowledge and understanding 1. Explore the application of the acquired learning in real education/pedagogical projects. 2. Apply the different educational requirements and situations through the different theoretical perspectives. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of how the question of gender pertains to different education/pedagogical objectives.

Program

The course aims to address the main contributions of women's paths and the elaborations of feminisms in the construction of knowledge and in particular of pedagogical knowledge.
The educational practice, although it is a traditionally feminized and feminized territory, requires a continuous reworking of the epistemological premises on which it is based. In fact, cultural, linguistic and symbolic systems are still affected by their historical construction marked by a neutral-masculine universal.
In the last fifty years an intense work inaugurated by feminist movements from various parts of the world has tried to reveal this false neutrality and to overcome ancient dichotomies such as nature / culture, public / private, production / reproduction, reason / emotion, objective / subjective. In this perspective, a lot of knowledge and a symbolic capable of expressing the female difference and the differences brought by all subjectivities, beyond discrimination, have been created as the ability to bring out self-determination and knowledge freer from sexism.
The aim of the course is to increase pedagogical skills in relation to the following topics:
Feminist epistemologies: the main theoretical contributions
Naming the world in the feminine: self-awareness and starting from oneself
Language is never neutral: knowledge and language are sexed
Gender education: between stereotypes and free subjectivity
Pedagogical knowledge and female knowledge
The paths of the male in education
The dark side of female relationships: bullying between girls
The dark heart of men: male violence against women
Feminist dystopias and utopias: conflict between the sexes and civilization of relationships.

Examination Methods

For attending students, the exam includes class exercises and a final written paper with oral presentation.
For non-attending students, the exam is oral and consists of a conversation starting from the texts in the bibliography. In addition to the knowledge of the texts, the degree of reflexivity matured will be evaluated.