B024456 - EDUCATIONAL AND SCHOOL POLICY EDUCATION

Teaching takes place in Italian; During the course material is provided in
English

The course aims to provide the theoretical, historical and cultural
elements necessary to focus on an idea of school for our time, starting from the assumption that this idea can be the reference point for educational and scholastic policies. In particular, the main paradigms that inspire these policies will be analyzed.

Texts (2):

- Baldacci M. (2014). Per un'idea di scuola. Milano: FrancoAngeli;
- Iori V. (a cura di) (2018). Educatori e Pedagogisti. Trento: Erickson

The course aims to contribute to the achievement of the following
training objectives, with reference to Dublin descriptors:
Knowledge and understanding: know how to interpret educational and
school contexts by capturing the emerging needs in terms of training
demand, with particular reference to the cultural dimension; To be able to
exercise reflection on the experience experienced, to know how to reflect
on it, and to prefigure possible areas of intervention in educational and
school contexts.
Making judgements: knowing to observe and interpret the school
contexts through the human development perspective; Know how to
analyze social complexity and know how to recognize the variety of
existing cultural models; Know how to place your professional act in a
horizon of values and meanings, whose center is represented by the
dignity and promotion of the human person, his fundamental rights and
his individual, social and cultural resources.
Communication skills: know how to make proposals, formulate and argue,
in oral or written form; Knowing to take part in shared projects, in the
light of group work.
Learning skills: read, understand and select critically texts and
documents in the field of human and pedagogical sciences and know how
to relate them to heterogeneous social, educational and school contexts

Knowledge of the main pedagogical trends of the twentieth century;
Basic knowledge in a historical context with particular reference to the history of the twentieth century; Adequate understanding of university level text; Basic vocabulary of pedagogical and sociological scope; Basic
computer skills

Lectures, Presentations and Speech in ppt, Focus group and debate,
Writing Workshop (review and professional autobiography), Teaching Materials and Indepth Studies on the Moodle Platform.

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Programme and examination methods are the same for attending and
non-attending students: the exam is conducted in written form and consists of a questionnaire on the books indicated in the programme.
The activities carried out by the students during the course (debate,
laboratory) are intended as ongoing verification.

The course aims to provide the theoretical, historical and cultural
elements necessary to focus on an idea of school for our time, starting
from the assumption that this idea can be the reference point for
educational and scholastic policies. In particular, the main paradigms that
inspire these policies will be analyzed. Starting from this analysis,
attention will be focused on the issues still open today in the debate on
school education, on the educational policies and on the organization of
training courses

4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all;
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls;
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all;
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries;