31042 - Adult Education and Strategies for Empowerment and Active Citizenship

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students – they will know the meaning of empowerment and active citizenship – they will know the theorical basis and the referring models of empowerment and of the activa citizenship – they will know good practices of educational actions to promote empowerment and active citizenship – they are able to carry out the work of several local sinergies in order to promote an empowerment perspective for people and communities and the enhancement of encounters with the others, of solidarity. -they will be able to promote the partecipation to active citizenship and to start empowerment operative strategies- they will be able to analyse the debat about the empowerment and the active citizenship topics as main matters of the complex changes of the current society.

Course contents

The course faces didactics of the adults, related to longlife learning, particularly concerning empowerment processes and the active citizenship building. These notions are the reading key to face a reflection about the society change and about the need of being and feeling active and responsible citizens, in condition to make choises, in the global, multcultural, individualistic and changeling context.

The main theme of the course is made of a didactical concept based on learning processes focused on real life, on experiences, those have as final aim the empowerment of personal autonomy, the acknowledgement of self-identity, the skill to set up changing processes and existencial planning.

This will be carried out through didactics for adults in order to educate to citizenship and to promote an empowerment perspective for the individues and the communities, through the behaviour education that is able to armonize the defense and the acknowledgement of self-identity towards the encounters with people, diversity, solidarity and cooperation.

Readings/Bibliography

Compulsory textes for all students:

L. Mortari, Educare alla cittadinanza partecipata, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2008

L. Dallago, Che cos'è l'empowerment, Milano, Carocci, 2006

G. Moro, Azione civica. Conoscere e gestire le organizzazioni di cittadinanza attiva, Milano, Carocci, 2005 ( i primi cinque capitoli)

A. Lucarelli, Beni comuni. Dalla teoria all'azione politica, Napoli, Dissensi, 2012

A choise of one among:

L. Gobbi, F. Zanetti (a cura di), Teatri re-esistenti. Confronti su teatro e cittadinanze, Pisa, Titivillus, 2011

B. Amoroso, Per il bene comune. Dallo stato del benessere alla società del benessere, Diabasis, 2010

G. Bassanini, Per amore della città. Donne, partecipazione, progetto , Milano, Franco Angeli, 2008

M. Boschini, Viaggio nel'Italia della buona politica. I piccoli comuni virtuosi, Torino, Einaudi, 2012

B. Bertoncin e J. Haim, Come la pioggia. Donne marocchine raccontano il loro impegno, Forlì, Una Cttà, 2010

F. Mernissi, Karawan. Dal deserto al web, Firenze, Giunti, 2004

Teaching methods

Lectures, group-works, deepening classes.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

During the lectures, videos, PC video projectors and material for teamwork will be used. The lectures will be integrated with documentaries and films.

Office hours

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