Educational Processes and Organizational Learning
PROF. NICOLETTA MARITAN; PROF. FRANCO NATILI
COURSE AIMS
To achieve articulate and in-depth theoretical and conceptual pictures in which to
place the principal approaches to education.
To acquire directions and reference coordinates for the development of the ability
to plan and assess educational activities in different socio-organizational areas and
contexts.
To analyze and formulate critically some of the principal methods and tools in use
in educational contexts.
COURSE CONTENT
From a perspective that is aware of the most up-to-date pictures of epistemological
and methodological reference, the course intends to explore the principal
approaches to adult education in work and organizational contexts. The principal
logic of educational activity and their connection to specific organizational
contexts will be analysed, investigating the ways of producing awareness, the
relationship with the action and with the organizational processes that are
developed by the educational intervention.
One module will be devoted to the principal tools in use in an educational setting,
through an exercise of breakdown/reconstruction starting from a concrete cross
section of experience and from the problems found in it.
The course will also take time to consider the principal psychological variables that
intersect and suggest the educational action, from management of the aspect of
authority, to the formulation linked by meaning, to the processes of restitution and
deepening of the knowledge that emerges.
READING LIST
A reading list will be made available at the beginning of the course and published on the
Blackboard.
TEACHING METHOD
The teaching method will provide for expression and integration between teaching
periods, analysis of cases and literature on situations that have been experienced, workshops
for experimenting and constructing ad hoc planning and educational assessment activities,
applied to actual sets of educational work in progress.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
As well as a final oral exam, a report linked to the workshop and to the observation and
formulation activities performed must be drawn up. Shared group moments will also be
educationally assessed.
NOTES
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
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board.