79363 - FENOMENOLOGIA E EDUCAZIONE

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows:

the basics of the  phenomenological paradigm and its application to the field of education;

The theoretical approaches to the Stranger conceived as a sociological category.

The themes related the (social) construction of (social) reality.

The insiderism vs outsiderism debate

She /he will be able to:

1. Identify the ideological dimension of scientific knowledge and  educational practices  

2. Understand and analyze  ordinary as well as institutional communication with a particular focus on:

The communicative construction of social identities

The communicative construction of the cases as problematic  or non problematic cases 

 

 

 

Course contents

The course is in 4 parts:

Phenomenology of education: a theoretical framework for thinking and acting in high complex sociocultural contexts;

The Foreigner as an analyser  of the community's everyday knowledge and commonsensical  assumptions and implicit moral orders.

The construction of social realities: the communicative constitution of social identities;

Language, interaction and culture: the case of interethnic communication; the case of social conflicts and forms of mediation.

Readings/Bibliography

For the students who a) master the Italian Language and b) regularly attend the courses, the mandatory readings are:

L. Caronia, Fenomenologia dell'educazione. Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2011.

L. Caronia, V. Colla. I compiti a casa. Linguaggio e apprendimento quando la scuola entra in famiglia. Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2024.

 

For the students who master Italian Language but do not regularly attend the  course, the mandatory readings are

1. L. Caronia, Fenomenologia dell'educazione. Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2011.

2. L. Caronia, v. Colla. I compiti a casa. Linguaggio e apprendimento quando la scuola entra in famiglia. Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2024.

3. L. Formenti; D. Cino. Oltre il senso comune. Un viaggio di ricerca in Pedagogia della famiglia, Milano Franco Angeli, 2024

4. F. Sabatano & G. Pagano, Liberta marginali. La sfida educativa tra devianza, delinquenza e sistema camorristico, Milano: Guerini, 2018.

For international students who do not master Italian.

The course will be held in Italian, however for international students who do not master Italian a side program will be at stake.

For the students who attend the lessons, summaries and English translations of the over all concepts/notions/ topics addressed during the lesson will be orally provided upon request, during the lesson.

Slides will be translated in English upon request.

The mandatory readings for the final and oral exam are:

L. Caronia (ed by) 2021 Language and Interaction at Home and School. New York/Amsterdam, John Benjamins.

Caronia, L. (2018). The phenomenological turn in education. The legacy of Piero Bertolini’s theory. Ricerche Di Pedagogia E Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 13(2), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/8600.

 Caronia, L. (2023). The Haunting Question of Values in the Era of Measurement, Assessment and Evidence-Based Education: Towards a Moral Accountability of Educational Decision-Making. Encyclopaideia, 27(1S), 29–36. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/16338

 

Teaching methods

The contents of the section "Pedagogy, cultural differences, confocts and mediation" are mainly provided through: Lectures, discussions, classroom collective works; video presentation and analysis.

Assessment methods

Written essay 

 

 

Teaching tools

Power point presentations (they are temporary tools for the lesson, they are not available for nor provided to to the students )

Video analysis

Seminars by experts

 

Office hours

See the website of Letizia Caronia