To develop greater awareness of the topic of diversity as a resource and greater competence in the ways to promote the potential of each and every person. To offer students some keys to interpret the school context from the point of view of integration and inclusion of all students. To initiate students in the acquisition of communicative skills for use in multicultural contexts.
Course Prerequisites
Even if there are no particular prerequisites, in the awareness that many students will be approaching Education and Didactics and Special Education maybe for the first time during this course, for a proficient participation to the lessons students are expected to have a cultural attitude of willingness to listen, grasp and actively elaborate, discussing in a collaborative way, the theoretic and practical issues posed by pedagogical analysis.
Teaching Methods
All the professor's lessons aim at favouring dialogue and discussion in group work. The participation of other professors/researchers/experts with an interest in the course topic is possibile.
Assessment Methods
Oral exam. Indicators: -knowledge of the basic texts of the exam programme; -ability to explain, autonomously, the silver thread that links some of the points in the basic texts, coherently with the exam's programme; -ability to critically analyse and personally re-elaborate the issue proposed by the course; -clear and logically coherent presentation; -lexical accuracy.
Texts
Reference texts for the exam (in the available editions):A. Bondioli con M. Domimagni, G. Nigito, A. Sabbatini, ERVIS. Elementi per rilevare e valutare l'integrazione scolastica, Azzano San Paolo (BG), Edizioni Junior, 2009; M. Ferrari, F. Ledda, SAPIENSSII, Strumento per l'Autovalutazione dei Processi Interculturali in Educazione nella Scuola Secondaria di Secondo Grado, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2012 (or: M. Ferrari, G. Matucci, M. Morandi, La scuola inclusiva dalla Costituzione a oggi. riflessioni tra pedagogia e diritto , Milano,FrancoAngeli, 2019 ); D. Janes, S. Cramerotti, a cura di, Alunni con BES, Trento, Erickson, 2012; Slides presented in class. Recommended reading: C. Rogers, Libertà nell'apprendimento, trad. it. Firenze, Giunti-Barbera, 1973.
Contents
The course is divided into two parts, each worth 1 academic credit. The first part is the responsibility of prof. Monica Ferrari, the second of prof. Anna Bondioli. Course title: “Accepting and giving value to diversity”. During the course we will discuss acceptance and giving value to diversity as a resource for the class group and the community, taking care to promote in the attending students methodological and didactic skills useful to be effective in interpersonal relationships and to communicate clearly and transparently, respectful of each and every individual. To this end we will analyse the school laws on diversity and special needs from a diachronic perspective and in the present. We will talk of a tool to observe and evaluate the quality of integration of different contexts. A tool will also be presented for auto-evaluation of the teachers’ intercultural attitude.
