THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERCULTURAL TRAINING (2009/2010)

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Course code
4S01053
Name of lecturer
Barbara Guidetti
Coordinator
Barbara Guidetti
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Academic sector
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Language of instruction
Italian
Location
VERONA
Period
Sem. 1A dal Oct 1, 2009 al Nov 15, 2009.

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

The course aims at proposing the concept of intercultural communication as a merge of subjects regarding communication, culture, pedagogy and multicultural societies.
Globalization and the global diffusion of mass media seems to carry out the Global Village that Mc Luhan supposed in 1964, but if on one hand languages tend to validate it, on the other thinking that cultural differences (like values, perception of time and space, organization and social roles) will be canceled is an illusion. Therefore living in a multicultural society means that becoming more conscious of the differences which form it, the development of competences in order to work and implant social relations in educational, productive and communicational systems that are made for a more multiethnic and multicultural public becomes necessary.
Thinking about people who is assigned to work in a multicultural society, in this course intercultural communication will be strongly investigated both on a theoretical and operational level.

Syllabus

Guidetti B. (2008), Educazione e pedagogia interculturale in azienda, FrancoAngeli, Milano.
Portera A. (2006), Globalizzazione e pedagogia interculturale, Erikson, Trento.
Uno a scelta fra:
Corte M. (2006), Comunicazione e giornalismo interculturale. Pedagogia e ruolo dei mass media in una società pluralistica, Cedam, Padova.
Agosti A. (2006), Gruppo di lavoro e lavoro di gruppo. Aspetti pedagogici e didattici, Franco Angeli, Milano.
Giaccardi C. (2005), La comunicazione interculturale, Il Mulino, Bologna.
Lamberti S. (2006), Cooperative Learning: una metodologia per la gestione dei conflitti, Cedam, Padova.
Portera A., Dusi P. (2005), gestione dei conflitti e mediazione interculturale, FrancoAngeli, Milano.
Sarignano F. M. (2002), La formazione interculturale fra teoria, storia e autobiografia, Edizioni ETS, Pisa.
Castiglioni I.(2005), La comunicazione interculturale, competenze pratiche, Carocci, Roma.
Quassoli F. (2006), Riconoscersi. Differenze culturali e pratiche comunicative, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano.
Disoteo M., Ritter B., Tasselli M.S. (a cura di) (2001), Musiche, culture, identità. Prospettive interculturali dell’educazione musicale, Franco Angeli, Milano.
Mauri L., Visconti M. (2004), Diversity management e società multiculturale. Teorie e prassi, Franco Angeli, Milano.
Quaglino G.P. (2005), Fare formazione. I fondamenti della formazione e i nuovi traguardi, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano.
Moren E. (2000), La testa ben fatta, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano.

Non participants students are pleased to contact the professor: barbara.guidetti@univr.it

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral discussion regarding the three text-books (2 of which are compulsory and one by choice).

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