70512 - Intercultural Pedagogy

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the theoretical and methodological grounds of the intercultural approach to education, which enables him/her to plan and lead a sport- educational intervention in multicultural situations (at school or in extra-school environments), cooperating with other educational professionals; he/she will be able to carry on observations, analysis and evaluation of multicultural contexts, applying the theoretical knowledge in concrete educational situations;

Course contents

The course will explore the main concepts and knowledge connected to the multicultural societies. The topics covered in the course are the following:
-Multicultural societies and intercultural approach
-stereotypes, prejudices and vocational approach
-racism and cultural relativism
-migration and learning processes
-diversity, differences, valorization of the differences
- assimilation, segregation and integration
-intercultural education: construction and evaluation of outside-school learning paths primarily connected to the sport environment

Readings/Bibliography

Cuconato M. (2017), Pedagogia e letteratura della migrazione. Sguardi sulla scrittura che cura e resiste, Carocci, Roma.

Capitolo 1: from 27 to 36

Capitolo 2: whole chapter

Capitolo 3: from 67 to 78

Capitolo 4: from 99 to 118

Capitolo 5: whole chapter

Capitolo 7: whole chapter

Teaching methods

Teacher lessons and group works

Assessment methods

The final examination consists in a written text (5 open questions) to be anwered in 90 mm.

It  aims at evaluating students' achievement of the following goals:
- to uncover and analyze meaning and role of the intercultural approach in the contemporary multicultural societies;
- to reason the interrelation of the intercultural pedagogy with the other educational sciences;
- to identify the conceptual theories of scientific investigations in the multicultural field;
- to identify the main emerging issues of the sport education in multicultural environment;
- to know the main problems connected to the social and work integration of migrant young people;
- to know the main models regulating the migrant access and stay in European countries.

Evaluation criteria: The test aims to evaluate the knowledge of the text's contents, assessing student's synthesis and analysis skills  The final mark is expressed in thirtieths and each question is assigned a maximum score of 6/30. Praise is awarded, in the case that  all answers are correct and show  through  particularly effective writing depths of analysis and  reflective-argumentative originality

Teaching tools

Power point e multimedia tools

Office hours

See the website of Morena Cuconato