Social Pedagogy (2008/2009)

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Course code
4S00760
Name of lecturer
Paola Dusi
Number of ECTS credits allocated
12
Academic sector
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Language of instruction
Italian
Location
VERONA
Period
Sem. I A, Sem. I B

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

This course, purposes to offer and to explore epistemological statute and research tools of Social Pedagogy. Besides it wants to offer, through an interdisciplinary approach, some of the most important theoretical concepts in order to help reflection on connection between man and society and on educational emergencies of our times.

Syllabus

Epistemological statute of Social Pedagogy
Research tools of Social Pedagogy
Problems of Social life
Educative action of Society
Conflict
Human needs
Education
Identity
Power
Belonging
Participation
Social Capital
Formation
Formative professions

Texts for exam (Mandatory for everybody):

Dewey J., Democrazia e educazione (Democracy and Education,The Macmillan Company New York,1916) (capp. II, VII, XXII, XXIII, XXVI).
Duplicated lecture notes

Three chosen textbooks:
Agazzi, A., Problemi attuali della pedagogia e lineamenti di pedagogia sociale, La Scuola Brescia, 1968.
Agosti, A., La formazione, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2006.Benhabib,S., La rivendicazione dell’identità culturale. Eguaglianza e diversità nell’era globale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005. (The claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era, Princeton, Princeton Press,2002.)
Bertolini, P., La responsabilità educativa. Studi di pedagogia sociale, Il Segnalibro, Torino,1996.
Bertolini, P. Educazione e politica, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2003.
Dusi, P., Flussi migratori e problematiche di vita sociale, Vita e Pensiero, 2005
Nancy, J.L., La comunità inoperosa, Cronocopio, Napoli, 1995.
Pati L., Pedagogia sociale, La Scuola, Brescia, 2007
Portera A., Globalizzazione ed educazione interculturale, Erikson,Trento, 2007.
Pourtois, J.P, Desmet, H., L’educazione postmoderna, Ed. del Cerro, Pisa, 2007.
Pourtois, J.P., Desmet, H., L’educazione implicita, Ed. del Cerro, Pisa, 2007.
Striano M., Introduzione alla pedagogiasociale, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2004.
Tramma, S., Pedagogia Sociale, Guerini Studio, Milano, 1999.
Wenger, E., Comunità di pratica, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2006, (Prefazione e Parte II) (Communities of Practice, Learning, Meaning and identity, Cambridge University Press, 1998,).

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam consists of two-hours’ written text based on argumentative and reflexive open-questions about lessons and exam books.

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