Methodology of Training and Special Activities
PROF. ALESSANDRA CARENZIO; PROF. VITTORE GIUSEPPE MARIANI
MODULE 1: (Prof. Alessandra Carenzio)
COURSE AIMS
This course is intended to analyse the methodology and methods of training,
encouraging students to reflect upon the specific features of each method and on
the choice of the most appropriate methodological frameworks for contexts and
players in the various training situations (school, outside school, and adult
training). Attention will be focused upon the method of Episodes of Situated
Learning.
COURSE CONTENT
The course is structured into two parts, corresponding to the two semesters.
The first part is dedicated to the main training methods, which will be analysed and
experimented with based on various guiding criteria: subject-group, inside-outside,
network-presence, analysis-production. The course will include a special focus on
the method of Episodes of Situated Learning. This method will be analysed above
all by investigating the methodological and organisational component in relation to
setting, tools and resources. The method, which enables active and participatory
practices to be supported, acts as a model for reflecting on methodology in the
wider sense.
READING LIST
Students attending lectures
P.C. RIVOLTELLA, Fare didattica con gli EAS, La Scuola, Brescia, 2013.
J.P. GEE, Come un videogioco. Insegnare e apprendere nella scuola digitale, Raffaello Cortina,
Milano, 2013.
Lecture materials, made available online, and the planning activities carried out during the
course, are an integral part of the exam syllabus.
Students not attending lectures
P.C. RIVOLTELLA, Fare didattica con gli EAS, La Scuola, Brescia, 2013.
J.P. GEE, Come un videogioco. Insegnare e apprendere nella scuola digitale, Raffaello Cortina,
Milano, 2013.
A text chosen from:
R. DI NUBILA, Saper fare formazione. Manuale di Metodologia, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce, 2005.
G. DIONINI-M.G. GARUTI, I giardini della formazione, Armando Editore, Roma, 2011 (Preface,
chapters 2 and 3).
J.A. MOON, Esperienza, riflessione, apprendimento. Manuale per una formazione innovativa,
Carocci , Roma, 2004 (Preface, Second part, Third part and Appendix).
T. TERLIZZI, Didattica del nido di infanzia, Junior, Bergamo, 2010.
TEACHING METHOD
This course comprises teaching activities carried out in the form of lectures, workshops
and seminar dicussions.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Students attending lectures will be assessed on their written work, tests and
presentations, along with an oral exam.
Those not attending lectures will be assessed by means of a final oral exam.
NOTES
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage
http://www2.unicatt.it/unicattolica/docenti/index.html or on the Faculty notice board.
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MODULE 2: Special Methodology (Prof. Vittore Giuseppe Mariani)
COURSE AIMS
To learn the fundamental notions of special pedagogy in order to assist people with
disabilities and tackle the educational emergency with particular reference to
adolescent maladjustment.
COURSE CONTENT
PART 1: People with intellectual disabilities.
1. People with intellectual disabilities: dignity, rights, potential and danger of
marginalisation.
2. The educational helping relationship.
3. Affective and sexual education.
4. The individualised educational project, safeguarding the life plan.
5. Services for integration and for “After we’ve gone”.
PART 2: The educational response to adolescent maladjustment.
6. Manifestations and causes of adolescent maladjustment and educational
emergency.
7. Short-, medium- and long-term life plans.
8. Promotion of the whole person: motor, intellectual, religious and affective
education.
9. Characteristics of the educational relationship and Enhancing adolescents’’
potential.
10. Educational realties in aid of adolescents.
READING LIST
V. MARIANI, Adolescenti. Maneggiare con cura. Manuale per educare in famiglia, Ancora, Milano,
2012.
V. MARIANI, Disabilità intellettiva. Educazione affettiva e sessuale, Paoline, Milano, 2013.
TEACHING METHOD
Lectures, using expositive, dialogic and maieutic methods.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Oral exams.
NOTES
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage
http://www2.unicatt.it/unicattolica/docenti/index.html or on the Faculty notice board.
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