Adult Education (2008/2009)

Learning outcomes

Think about age and adult identity's main epistemological interpertations with particular attention at the passages and critical points of this age. In particular will be deepened some methods that promote the interaction between personal and professional experiences in adults’ formation.

-adulthood construction’s processes,
-personal narration and auto training methods
-compose a life in adults training.


Books:
Mandatory
Daniele Loro: Pedagogia della vita adulta. Prospettive di formazione, Ed. La Scuola, Brescia 2006.
Duccio Demetrio, Nel profondo di noi stessi ancora celati. In Animazione sociale n° 4 2008.

two of these books to choose:
Rosanna Cima, Tempo di vecchiaia. Percorsi di anima e cura tra storie di donne,
Franco Angeli, Milano, 2004.
Duccio Demetrio, La vita schiva. Il sentimento e la virtù della timidezza, Cortina, Milano 2007.
Luigina Mortari, Apprendere dall’esperienza, Il pensiero riflessivo nella formazione, Carocci, Roma 2003.
Mary Catherin Bateson (1989), Comporre una vita, Feltrinelli, Milano 1992,
Catherine Dunne, Il viaggio verso casa, Edizioni Guanda, Parma 2000.
Janet Frame, Un angelo alla mia tavola, Einaudi, Torino 1999.
Doris Lessing (1983), Il diario di Jane Somers, Feltrinelli, Milano 1988.
Luigi Meneghello, (1963), Libera nos a Malo, Bur, Milano 2007.
Luisa Passerini, La Fontana della giovinezza, Giunti, Firenze 1999.
During the course will be indicated more books (books/magazines).
Not attending Students are kindly invited at the meeting the october 16 at 17:20 – aula Artigliere.

Interview. Students can compile an individual writing, that keeps in mind the texts faced during the course and the experiences relating the course themes.
The writing must be delivered on paper and via email a week before the exam and will be discussed in the examination.