BERGAMO
Overview
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Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to focus on some competences that allow the future graduate to accompany the child development in early childhood services, to promote social support to the parents, to plan suitable educational environments, to promote the integration of the educational services of the territory, with the purpose to sustain general educational processes, as well as the inclusion of boys and girls.
It is specific to the curriculum of the infancy, and it contributes to prepare the future graduate educator to develop didactic activities within the services of the Integrated System 0-6 years (D. Lgs. 65/2017), with respect to early childhood services and for the families with children.
The course aims to develop awareness of the fundamental factors that characterize didactic lexicon and strategy, in theoretical and practical dimensions, in the different fields of human actions, and particularly in the child services.
The concept of didactics will be explored in its theoretical, technical and applied purposes to support students to identify ephistemological fundamentals and methodological processes.
The course objectives are:
- to define the didactic concept
- to identify fundamentals of didactics applied to different fields of human action
- to recognize the correlations between didactics and anthropological learning approach
- to analize some methodologies, techniqus, didactic approaches outlining their differences
- to aquire scientific lexicon
- to familiarize with strategies for the developement of didactics in the cooperativeorganization of educational and teaching activities
- to analize critically the relationship between pedagogy and didactics for empowerment of teaching and educational profession and of professional practices in formal educational context
- to explore methodological approaches for the didactics.
Course Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
The course will be developed by integrating theoretical presentations - grounding concepts and vocabulary - with workshop sessions characterised by collaborative learning activities and active teaching methodologies (see Workshop programme associated with the course). There will be seminars with external guests to encourage students to meet with professionals from the educational sector.
Lessons will be offered exploiting the different digital media and languages (slides, videos, web resources, applications for collaborative work), also with attention to the different learning modes of the students. At the end of the theoretical lessons, collaborative multimedia maps will be constructed together with the students, which can be used by everyone as a study support.
Ideas for activities and supplementary materials will be available on the course's Moodle platform.
During the workshops, activities will be proposed that, on the basis of the objectives and indications given by the lecturer, will allow students to use different tools (including technological tools) and languages according to their own preferences.
Students with documented needs and registered with the Office for Services to Students with Disabilities and/or DSA must contact the lecturer in order to agree on useful adaptations for studying and taking the exam.
Assessment Methods
WRITTEN EXAM: answers to 3 questions (2 questions with theoretical content pertaining to modules 1 and 3; 1 MANDATORY question pertaining to the Workshops in which a brief didactic design will be requested - see Workshop Syllabus). Each question may be answered within a maximum number of lines and will be awarded a weighted mark which will be added together for each question up to a maximum of 31/30 (honours awarded for original, well-prepared and well-defined assignments from a didactic perspective). Students may replace the laboratory question with project activities agreed with the lecturer during the laboratory lessons. Duration of test: 70 minutes for those who answer the 2 theory questions; 90 minutes for those who answer the 2 theory questions and the laboratory question.
WRITTEN EXAM: outcome via Sportello Internet Studenti
ORAL EXAM (reserved for students with previous year programmes, partial or in agreement): outcome at the end of the examination and registration via Sportello Internet Studenti
Contents
What is didactics; The importance of observation and planning in didactic contexts; Intentional and implicit didactics in community, social and formal living environments; The relationship between didactics and learning; The relationship between didactics and education: comparing idealtypes and practices; Methods and practices of educational and didactic intervention; The Integrated System 0-6 years; Space, time and relationships in early childhood services; The network with territorial services and the active role of families.