Teaching code

4S006164

Teacher

Paola Dusi

Credits

4

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

Sem. 2A dal Feb 21, 2022 al Mar 26, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link:  Course organization

Learning outcomes

The goals of the course are:
1. to provide students with a broad understanding of Intercultural Pedagogy, and how it can offer the best response to issues associated with pluralism, globalisation, and the presence of multiculturalism and multiple ethnicities within our societies (with particular focus on the relationships between diversity and social injustice, between ethnocentrism and prejudice, and between language and identity).
2. To explore what intercultural education means in practice in the context of the Italian school system (pre-school and primary level). What forms does it take? What specific challenges do educators face?
3. To provide pre-service teachers with methodological tools for cultivating both their own intercultural competences and those of their students. With this in mind, participants (pre-service teachers) will be encouraged to develop better personal awareness and learn how to help their students acquire a greater level of intercultural sensitivity.


Required learning outcomes: acquisition of knowledge and abilities
Kindergarten and Prymary School


1st descriptor: Knowledge and Understanding


B y the end of the course, students will be expected:
- to understand the epistemological foundations of pedagogy and intercultural education;
- to understand what forms, modes and characteristics intercultural education adopts in the Italian school and pre-school system (in theoretical, regulatory and methodological terms);
- to understand the relationship between identity and a person’s first language;
- to be familiar with the principal models of intercultural competence.


2nd descriptor: Understanding and application of acquired knowledge
By the end of the course, students will be expected to have developed:
- the ability to analyse the governmental publications that are of greatest relevance to an intercultural approach to education, and use these documents to guide their own work in the classroom;
- the ability to use models of intercultural competence to are been tailored for/addressed to a specific group or class.

Program

Contents:

Ist part Starting from ourselves

Recognition in educational contexts
- Difference as a constitutive element of human life
- The theory of recognition

The three steps for an intercultural approach
- Decentralization
- The reference framework of the other
- Negotiation and intercultural mediation

Obstacles to understanding the other
- The representations
- The forms of ethnocentrism
- Limits of human judgment
- Professional models and techniques

IInd part
The school context: ‘a mixed bag’

- Life and experiences of children and families
- Insights: the ‘second generations’
- School ‘a mixed bag’
- Micro-aggressions
- The teachers’ point of view on diversity
- Ministerial documents



IIIrd part
Teachers intercultural training and competences

- The construct of intercultural competence.
- A model of intercultural competence for primary and infant school teachers
- First level intercultural competence
- Second level intercultural competence

IVth part
Relationship with parents from here and from elsewhere




Teaching methods and learning settings

Traditional lectures using additional materials (slides, video clips, extracts from government documents, other texts, etc.), individual exercises (personal skills and competencies) and group exercises (case studies, interviews, etc.)

Bibliography

1. P. Dusi, Il riconoscimento. Franco Angeli Milano 2017
2. Indicazioni Nazionali 2012-2018

Recommended reading list

This list of titles applies equally to the programs for attending students and for non-attending students. Additional recommendations will be provided to attending students during the course of the lessons.

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Exams:
Learning outcomes will be assessed through an individual written essay

Nature of the assessment and material covered:

- An individual written report, which – taking as its starting point the collected interview - should critically analyze them using, as appropriate, the concepts, theoretical models, and interventions covered during the course.
- A conceptual map of the volume Il riconoscimento.


Assessment criteria
The assessment result will be expressed as a score out of a possible thirty marks

Marks will be awarded on the basis of the following performance criteria:

-command of specialist terminology pertaining to the sector in question;
- the rigorousness in the administration and transcription of the interview (using the format posted in moodle).
- by analyzing and discussing the collected interview;
- by citing the texts indicated in the bibliography and other texts identified during the research process,
- demonstration of personal reflection on the material studied and the ability to reconcile theory and practice;
- by providing a personal interpretation of, and reflection on, the lessons attended bibliographical sources.
-- the rigorousness of the conceptual map of the book Il riconoscimento
- correct grammar and syntax.


Instructions for drafting the report*

The data analysis process should be supported by references to the texts covered during the course (and to other works and studies known to the student or students). The length of the report is to be decided by the student himself. The recommended minimum length, however, is 10 pages (each of 3,000 characters) plus the bibliography, he conceptual map, and appendices (which should include a complete transcription of the data collected through the interview)
The report should include:
- a cover (with full names and matriculation numbers of the student or students, the name of the degree course, the project title, and a contact email address and telephone number;
- an abstract/brief summary of the project;

Ist Section
- introduction;
- data analysis;
- discussion of data analysis;
- conclusion;
- bibliography

IInd section
Concept map of the book Il riconoscimento

- appendices: all data collected via interview.

The text should be subdivided into paragraphs and supplemented, in a proper academic fashion, by footnotes and final bibliography.
The report must be submitted by email to the course leader at least five days prior to the exam date selected by the student.