Learning outcomes
This course aims at un understanding of compared education and its foundations (object, purpose, pedagogic boundaries, methodology, conditions and research tools, critical knowledge of the most meaningful aspects of historical evolution and present state of this topic) and to introduce the concept of education through a compared approach to different both historical and present social and cultural models.
Epistemological analysis of the comparison in general as scientifica research method and especially in the pedagogic sector.
Historical and nethodological aspects.
Evolution of surveys and researches in the present international milieu.
Problems of compared education today.
Suggested readings:
- L. Gallo, Problemi e prospettive dell’educazione comparata, Laterza, Bari, 2006.
- della rivista "Studium Educationis", il numero 1/2004 monografico dedicato alla "Educazione comparata": pp. 5-20 e 287-290.
- dell’Enciclopedia pedagogica, La Scuola, Brescia, 1989, vol. I dalla colonna 2845 "Comparativa, Pedagogia" alla colona 2912 dove si conclude la voce "Comparazione".
- Students will be supplied with more accurate book references and learning aids during the lectures.
