Teaching code

4S02384

Teacher

Daniela Raccanello

Coordinator

Daniela Raccanello

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PSI/04 - DEVELOPMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Period

Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

GENERAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES. *To know and understand the psychological theories which describe and explain the processes underlying individuals and groups' behaviours, and the processes of adjustment to the material and social environment, for example the perceptual, cognitive, communicative-linguistic, social-relational, affective-emotional, and learning processes. *To know and understand the psychological theories related to learning, teaching, and training, with attention to the developmental processes characterizing the whole life course in different contexts. *To apply the psychological theories to the functioning of individuals, groups, and organisation in order to observe and analyse behaviours, and in particular phenomena concerning learning and personal and social changes. *To apply knowledge about psychological measurement instruments to the assessment of individuals, to the evaluation of learning needs, for training and development of individuals along the whole life course, of groups, of organisation, and communities. *To develop and conduct educational trainings.
SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES. *To know and understand the characteristics of the processes of development and learning in different psychological domains (motor-perceptual, cognitive, communicative-linguistic, emotional, relational-social), along the whole life course. *To know and understand the psychological theories on the processes of development and learning. *To know and understand the risk and promotion factors for the individual paths of development and learning. *To take into account the behavior of individuals of a specific age within a specific context according to the acquired knowledge. *To apply the acquired knowledge in the process of assessment of the behavior of individuals and their interactions in educational contexts, both to identify risk and promotion indicators and to favor processes of social integration.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Knowledge acquired during the first year of the course is a prerequisite.

Program

The syllabus includes:
- Basic aspects of developmental psychology and educational psychology
- Cognitive and linguistic development
- Social contexts and social development, moral development, and development of self
- Individual differences
- Sociocultural differences
- Exceptional students
- Behavioral and socio-cognitive approach
- Cognitive approach
- Complex cognitive processes
- Socio-constructivist approaches
- Learning and cognition in content areas
- Motivation, teaching and learning
- Emotions, teaching and learning
- Planning, instruction, technology and class management
- Evaluation in the class
- Emotions and disasters: the case of the Covid-19 pandemic

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course will include frontal lessons, aiming at transmitting basic notions, integrated by cooperative learning, aiming at deepening the knowledge of specific aspects of the syllabus. The content of the texts and the lessons is coherent with the syllabus. Further didactic materials are available from the teacher.
During the whole academic year, in addition, the teacher will receive the students individually, at the times indicates in the website (it is not necessary to arrange specific appointments) which are constantly updated.
During the first lesson, the teacher will present the whole calendar of the didactic activities with dates and topics of the lessons, specifying the time and the rooms.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam is formed by a written part which covers the whole syllabus. For the written part, there are 61 closed-ended questions. The duration of the written part is 60 minutes. The exam will be equal for those students who attend and those who do not attend the lessons.

Evaluation criteria

The aim of the exam is to verify the extent to which the expected learning results are achieved, in terms of knowledge and understanding abilities, both theoretical and applied.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The evaluation of the exam is expressed in thirties. For the written part, there will be half point for each correct answer to the closed-ended questions (0 points for each missing answer; -0.125 points for each incorrect answer).

Exam language

Italiano

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