School ethnography (2024/2025)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:
1. Acquire basic knowledge of the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology regarding kinship and visions of the world to understand comparatively human variation from a social and cultural viewpoint.
2. Possess knowledge of how social and cultural inequalities are reproduced in society to understand the many forms of racism that people face in the contemporary world.

Applying knowledge and understanding:
1. Promote cultural decentralization and therefore the affective, cognitive, relational, and socio-cultural autonomy of the people with whom the student will work.
2. Use anthropological knowledge to intervene in situations marked by marginality and integration problems, also through the recognition and promotion of different family education models and different cultural styles of learning of the people with whom the student will work.
3. Plan, create, and evaluate educational projects from an anti-racist perspective based on social inclusion and intercultural dialogue.

The main contents of the course are as follows:
- the key concepts of the discipline, such as the concept of culture, ethnocentrism, and cultural relativism;
- an introduction to the cultural anthropologist's primary method: ethnographic field research;
- the issue of racism from an anthropological perspective with a particular focus on managing cultural differences in schools.

evaluation of attention and participation in class.