13220 - General and Social Pedagogy

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, the student: - knows the epistemological statute of General pedagogy: the conceptual core of the discipline, the areas of interest and the connected modality of research and intervention, its development lines, the main authors of the tradition and of contemporary world; - is able to identify and analyse the educational emergences in our socio-historical-cultural context; - masters the notion of personal identity, its polysemy in several disciplinary areas, its plural declination in the contemporary context and its related processes of elaboration-construction-comparison from a pedagogical point of view; - is able to research the elements of the historical-social-cultural context which influence both the daily nature of work of educators/animators/socio-educational operators and the overall system of the educational services in a territory; - is able to plan and realise educational paths which can support an autonomous personal construction of the subjects addressing to the social, socio-health and cultural services; - manages the collaboration with other professionals, especially in order to cope with the processes of change in the “system-problem” which includes the educational subjects; - is able to create, in the services where he/she operates, an environment and a context of active listening; - is able to educate to empathy; - is able to reflect on the construction of the professional identity of the educators/animators/ socio-educational operators, at a crossing between social negotiations, cultural elements, conditioning, historical phases, affiliations, encounters and conflicts of individuals or groups, identity and family modelling etc.; - knows the role and the educational specificity of the professional working in the social and socio-health services, in cultural, recreational sport services; - analyses and uses in a systemic view the educational system present in a specific territory; knows the main characteristics of the educational relationship; - is aware of his/her own relational modalities; - is able to enhance – in him/herself and the others – the intertwining of emotional and cognitive processes in the educational relationship; practises critical and metariflexivity functions regarding the disciplinary knowledge and the ability to know in relation to the bonds, the problems, the potentialities, the modifications of the context as well.

Course contents

The General and Social Pedagogy course aims to delve into both the main characteristics of the educational experience and the most recurring problematic issues. Through the contributions of classic authors and those emerging from the most current research, within the epistemology of complexity and without neglecting reflections on ethical issues, the fundamental issues for future educators in the socio-educational and socio-health services will be addressed. Among these issues we remember, for example, the vulnerabilities and the resources to be activated in the educational process to cope the existential changes; “existential planning” in the different ages of life; problems related to the reorganization of bodily and emotional memory; the ability to deconstruct socio-cultural conditioning in order to develop new skills and to refine the most effective educational styles.

Readings/Bibliography

The course is composed by 2 modules. Module 1 is conducted by prof.ssa Manuela Gallerani; Module 2 by prof. A. Tolomelli.

Module 1 refers to the following book:

- M. Gallerani, Prossimità inattuale, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015 (e/o altre novità editoriali che verranno indicate prima dell’inizio delle lezioni).

Module 2 refers to the following book:

-A. Tolomelli, "Rimuovere gli ostacoli..." Per una pedagogia di frontiera, ETS, Pisa, 2017.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons; role playing; classroom discussions in a small and large group.

Assessment methods

The exam will be written: for the students who attended the lessons the exam will consist in multiple choice questions, while for the students who did not attend the lessons the exam will consist in open questions.

-Inscription to the exam only on Almaesami website.

Teaching tools

Power Point; readings; multimedial tools.

Office hours

See the website of Manuela Gallerani

See the website of Alessandro Tolomelli