Corso di laurea in Scienze dell'Educazione

The aim of this course is to analyse and discuss how to plan high quality educational experiences and activities in early childhood education services.

A specific focus is on developing professional skills in educational planning, by promoting an intercultural point of view and equal right of education for all, in order to foster an active and responsible citizenship.

Knowledge and understanding

Knowledge of the foundations of educational theory: pedagogical competence and projectuality.

Knowledge of the main modelsand techniques of educational planning in daycare centers.

Knowledge of the various stages in theprocess of planning.

Applying knowledge and understanding

Knowing how to select and implement educational planning models and techniques in multicultural and changing extraschool education contexts.

Knowing how to connect the knowledge and skills acquired to the working reality.

Making judgements

Being able to design educational projects by taking into account both the different contexts and the participation of the various subjects involved.

Being able to reflect on educational projects to develop intercultural education.

Learning skills

Capability of critically analysing the educational planning process as a means of innovating their own professional identity in changing and multicultural educational contexts.

Communication skills

Acquiring and using a proper pedagogical scientific language.

Enhancing social and cooperative skills.

Teacher presentations and guided discussions starting from suggestions and texts provided in classroom; pair-groupwork activities (cooperative learning); elaboration and presentation of group projects by registered students; (whenever possible) meetings with experts in the field.

Students regularly attending classes:

The evaluation includes: classroom exercises and written tests made in classroom, and an oral examination on selected chapters of the books suggested

Students who will not regularly attend courses:

The evaluation consists of an oral examination on the textbooks suggested

The foundations of educational theory: pedagogical competence and projectuality.

- Professional competence of early childhood educators.

- Educational planning in early childhood services. Meaning, models and techniques.

- Educational planning for everyday diversity and changing multicultural contexts.

- Identity, difference and equity as resources for designing and reflecting on intercultural education projects.

Students regularly attending classes:

- teaching presentations and materials provided during the course

- selected chapters of the following books:

 

1. Milani L. (2017). Competenza Pedagogica e progettualità educativa. Editrice Morcelliana: Brescia

2. Restiglian E. (2012), Progettare al nido: teorie e pratiche educative, Roma: Carocci

3. The following articles and chapters:

• Bargellini C. (1999). La comunicazione interculturale. In F. Gobbo e M. T. Ponzetta (a cura di), La quotidiana diversità. Padova: Imprimitur, pp. 59-96

• Sclavi M. (1999). La sapere delle emozioni e il tocco dell’umorista: l’esperienza etnografica come savoire faire nella complessità. In F. Gobbo e M. T. Ponzetta (a cura di). La quotidiana diversità. Padova: Imprimitur, pp. 27-58

• Abdallah-Pretceille M. (2006). Interculturalism as a paradigm for thinking about diversity. In Intercultural Education, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 475-483

• Omodeo M. (2015). La crescita plurilingue di bambine e bambini in nidi interculturali. In Cospe (a cura di), Esperienze di quotidiana interculturalità, Comune di Firenze – Regione Toscana. Firenze, p. 30-53  (da pag. 41 a 53 solo lettura)

• Moss P. (2005). It’s your choice. In Nursery World,  24 November 2005, p. 26-27

• Pescarmona I. (2019). Infanzie al plurale fra diritti, riconoscimenti e silenzi. In L. Milani (a cura di), Trame di costruzione della cittadinanza. Riflessioni a 30 anni dalla Convenzione ONU sui diritti dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza, Bari: Progedit, pp. 3-13

** Students can find these chapters at the Library of Education Department, via Gaudenzio Ferrari 9/11, Torino.

4. Bolognesi I., Di Rienzo A., Lorenzini S., Pileri A. (2006), Di cultura in culture. Esperienze e percorsi interculturali nei nidi d'infanzia. Milano: Franco Angeli

Students who will not regularly attend courses:

1. Milani L. (2017). Competenza Pedagogica e progettualità educativa. Editrice Morcelliana: Brescia

2. Restiglian E. (2012), Progettare al nido: teorie e pratiche educative, Roma: Carocci (solo i capitoli 2, 3, 4 e paragrafo 6.1)

3. The following articles and chapters:

• Bargellini C. (1999). La comunicazione interculturale. In F. Gobbo e M. T. Ponzetta (a cura di), La quotidiana diversità. Padova: Imprimitur, pp. 59-96

• Sclavi M. (1999). La sapere delle emozioni e il tocco dell’umorista: l’esperienza etnografica come savoire faire nella complessità. In F. Gobbo e M. T. Ponzetta (a cura di). La quotidiana diversità. Padova: Imprimitur, pp. 27-58

• Abdallah-Pretceille M. (2006). Interculturalism as a paradigm for thinking about diversity. In Intercultural Education, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 475-483

• Omodeo M. (2015). La crescita plurilingue di bambine e bambini in nidi interculturali. In Cospe (a cura di), Esperienze di quotidiana interculturalità, Comune di Firenze – Regione Toscana. Firenze, p. 30-53  (da pag. 41 a 53 solo lettura)

• Corsaro W. A e Molinari L., La famiglia, i compagni, la scuola: il metodo etnografico per lo studio dei contesti di sviluppo. In F. Gobbo e A. M. Gomes (a cura di). Etnografia dei contesti educativi, Roma: CISU, pp. 151-184.

• Moss P. (2005). It’s your choice. In Nursery World,  24 November 2005, p. 26-27

• Pescarmona I. (2019). Infanzie al plurale fra diritti, riconoscimenti e silenzi. In L. Milani (a cura di), Trame di costruzione della cittadinanza. Riflessioni a 30 anni dalla Convenzione ONU sui diritti dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza, Bari: Progedit, pp. 3-13

** Students can find these chapters at the Library of Education Department, via Gaudenzio Ferrari 9/11, Torino.

4. Bolognesi I., Di Rienzo A., Lorenzini S., Pileri A. (2006), Di cultura in culture. Esperienze e percorsi interculturali nei nidi d'infanzia. Milano: Franco Angeli

Foreign students can also contact the Professor to use alernative books and articles in English language.