B024151 - GENERAL PEDAGOGY

Italian

This course addresses Pedagogy as a “general knowledge” concerning education, and at the same time as a discipline that reflects on all problems related to education and training. First of all, they will be briefly addressed the main steps that made, over the centuries, the pedagogical knowledge as a scientific one. It will then be shown the theoretical dimension of Pedagogy, highlighting its relevant function in orienting, legitimating and regulating educational practices and contexts.

The course introduces the fundamental issues of general education as a theoretical and empirical science, providing clues to the study of problems related to the subject, the language and the specific objectives of the discipline.

Course Books: 2

1) F. Frabboni, F. Pinto Minerva, Introduzione alla pedagogia generale, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008 (o ediz. successive), pages 1-62.

2) F. Cambi, Le pedagogie del Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008 (o ediz. successive), chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 16.

Autline the link between the general reflection on education, the development of educational practices and their carrying out in specific educational contexts; lastly, the reflection on educational practices themselves.

Knowledge: to know the concepts which make up the theoretic reflection of pedagogy;
Skills: being able to reflect on the elements that characterize the educational professionalism in relation to the aims of education in the complex society

Knowing the periodization of history; knowing how to read a scientific text; know the history of the twentieth century

Traditional lectures and participate lectures focused on specific issues.

Frontal lectures; seminari

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Written exam

Written exam

This course addresses Pedagogy as a discipline able to reflect on education and training problems and issues, and it is divided in two parts, strictly interrelated: after a brief historical excursus, summarizing the most relevant “steps” of Pedagogy’s constitution as a scientific discipline, the first one is focused on highlighting its function in orienting, legitimating and regulating educational practices and contexts. In its second part, after a brief illustration of the different “frontiers” of current Pedagogy, we will focus on three key examples, respectively: Intercultural Pedagogy, Family Pedagogy and Early Childhood Pedagogy, also in order to outline the link between the general reflection on education, and on the development and the reflection of educational practices themselves.

The course introduces the fundamental issues of general education as a theoretical and empirical science, providing clues to the study of problems related to the subject, the language and the specific objectives of the discipline.