Teaching code

4S007363

Teacher

Paola Dal Toso

Coordinator

Paola Dal Toso

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PED/02 - HISTORY OF PEDAGOGY AND EDUCATION

Period

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

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

GENERAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES. *To know and understand the educational theories which support processes and techniques concerning learning, training, and development of individuals and communities, referring also to processes about social and cultural inclusion. *To apply educational methods and techniques to the analysis of learning processes, professional training, and development of communities of practices.
SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES. *To know and understand some essential lines of the story of pedagogy (education) with specific reference to modern and contemporary ages through the analysis of the thought and the work of meaningful authors who gave special attention to the educational dimension of work and vocational training. *To know the development of the models of those vocational training promoted in modern and contemporary ages. *To understand the problematic nature of the processes of vocational training in the complexity of the current historical, cultural and economic context. *To be able to recognize the most important models of vocational training developed between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth centuries. *To define how the consideration of the training value of work has changed through the years, seizing permanence and absence in the current world in order to stress the lines of continuity/discontinuity. *To apply the historical and pedagogical knowledge to the reading and understanding of the training for work in the current complexity, as well as in the lifelong vocational learning.

Prerequisites and basic notions

- Knowledge of the historical and socio-cultural development of Italy from unity to today.

Program

- Essential lines of the history of pedagogy with specific reference to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the knowledge of the reflection on job training by some of the most significant authors from antiquity to the modern and contemporary age.
- In-depth study of the historical evolution of some problems relating to planning in training activities, work education, the educational value of work, apprenticeships.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

- Lectures
- Involvement of individual students in the presentation of the topics covered by the program via power-point

Learning assessment procedures

Written test of 6/8 open questions on key issues of the program, referring to each of the three texts in the program. There is no difference in the examination procedure for attending and non-attending students.
However, attendance is recommended.

Evaluation criteria

Historical contextualization, relevance of the content to the question, correctness and clarity of argument

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The grade is divided as follows:
- 8 points for the historical contextualization,
- 14 points for the content expressed,
- 8 points for the correctness and clarity of argument

Exam language

italiano