ID:
511522
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
PEDAGOGIA GENERALE E SOCIALE
Located in:
CREMONA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (02/03/2026 - 12/06/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course offers a general introduction to the vast theme of Pedagogy, and of the pedagogical analysis, presenting reference backgrounds, conceptual frameworks, heuristic constructs, models and approaches in the context of the theories of education of the last century and the current situation. This class is aimed at providing students with
- the knowledge and ability to understand a specific terminology in order to refer to educational issues;
- the knowledge and ability to understand issues related to pedagogical phenomena (with references to scientific literature) in order to be able to problematize key issues of the cultural debate and aspects found in educational contexts of different types;
- communication skills for explicating and sharing cultural issues regarding educational phenomena;
- tools to critically read educational phenomena and situations as characteristic aspects of the community of associated life.
- the knowledge and ability to understand a specific terminology in order to refer to educational issues;
- the knowledge and ability to understand issues related to pedagogical phenomena (with references to scientific literature) in order to be able to problematize key issues of the cultural debate and aspects found in educational contexts of different types;
- communication skills for explicating and sharing cultural issues regarding educational phenomena;
- tools to critically read educational phenomena and situations as characteristic aspects of the community of associated life.
Course Prerequisites
The course requires no particular prerequisites. In the awareness that many students may be approaching Education for the first time during this course, successful participation presumes a cultural attitude of willingness to listen, grasp and actively elaborate the theoretic and practical issues posed by pedagogical analysis, discussing them in a collaborative way.
Teaching Methods
All the professors' lessons aim at favouring dialogue and active/cooperative discussion in the working group.
Assessment Methods
Oral exam.
Evaluation indicators:
knowledge of the basic texts of the exam programme;
-ability to explain, in full autonomy, the silver thread that links some of the issues presented in the basic texts, coherently with the exam programme;
-ability to critically analyse and personally re-elaborate the issues proposed during the course;
-clear and logically coherent presentation;
-lexical accuracy.
Evaluation indicators:
knowledge of the basic texts of the exam programme;
-ability to explain, in full autonomy, the silver thread that links some of the issues presented in the basic texts, coherently with the exam programme;
-ability to critically analyse and personally re-elaborate the issues proposed during the course;
-clear and logically coherent presentation;
-lexical accuracy.
Texts
Reference texts (in the available editions) (A+B+C)
A) In order to prepare for the exam, every student must read: M. Ferrari, Che cos’è l’analisi pedagogica? Problemi e questioni di metodo, Brescia, Scholé, 2023.
B) In order to prepare for the exam, every student must choose 1 book from the following list, non-attending student must choose 2 of them (not by the same author):
J. Dewey (1899), Scuola e società, italian translation Roma, Edizioni Conoscenza, 2018.
G. Lombardo Radice (1915), Come si uccidono le anime, Pisa, ETS, 2020.
J. Dewey (1916), Democrazia e educazione, italian translation Milano, Sansoni, 2008.
M. Montessori (1938), Il segreto dell’infanzia, Milano, Garzanti, 1999.
M. Montessori (1948), La scoperta del bambino, Milano, Garzanti, 2011.
Scuola di Barbiana, Lettera a una professoressa, Firenze, Libreria editrice fiorentina, 1967.
P. Freire (1968), Pedagogia degli oppressi, italian translation Torino, Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 2018.
T. Gordon (1974), Insegnanti efficaci, italian translation Giunti, Firenze, 2000.
I. Illich (1971), Descolarizzare la società, italian translation Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2010.
M. Lodi (1977), Cominciare dal bambino, Milano, Rizzoli, 2022.
E. Morin (1999), I sette saperi necessari all’educazione del futuro, italian translation Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2001.
M. Nussbaum (2011), Creare capacità. Liberarsi dalla dittatura del Pil, italian translation Bologna, Il Mulino.
C) Moreover, in order to prepare for the exam, all students must choose 1 of the following books:
M. Baldacci, La scuola al bivio. Mercato o democrazia?, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2019.
J. Bruner (1996), La cultura dell’educazione, italian translation Milano, Feltrinelli, 1997.
Q. Camerlengo (ed.), Educazione. Un concetto plurale, Roma, Carocci, 2025.
M. Ferrari, M. Canevari (eds.), I cambiamenti delle pratiche didattiche oltre la pandemia. Antropologia culturale e pedagogia, Brescia, Scholé, 2024.
All students wishing to sit the exam are asked to agree on the reading material with the professors.
A) In order to prepare for the exam, every student must read: M. Ferrari, Che cos’è l’analisi pedagogica? Problemi e questioni di metodo, Brescia, Scholé, 2023.
B) In order to prepare for the exam, every student must choose 1 book from the following list, non-attending student must choose 2 of them (not by the same author):
J. Dewey (1899), Scuola e società, italian translation Roma, Edizioni Conoscenza, 2018.
G. Lombardo Radice (1915), Come si uccidono le anime, Pisa, ETS, 2020.
J. Dewey (1916), Democrazia e educazione, italian translation Milano, Sansoni, 2008.
M. Montessori (1938), Il segreto dell’infanzia, Milano, Garzanti, 1999.
M. Montessori (1948), La scoperta del bambino, Milano, Garzanti, 2011.
Scuola di Barbiana, Lettera a una professoressa, Firenze, Libreria editrice fiorentina, 1967.
P. Freire (1968), Pedagogia degli oppressi, italian translation Torino, Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 2018.
T. Gordon (1974), Insegnanti efficaci, italian translation Giunti, Firenze, 2000.
I. Illich (1971), Descolarizzare la società, italian translation Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2010.
M. Lodi (1977), Cominciare dal bambino, Milano, Rizzoli, 2022.
E. Morin (1999), I sette saperi necessari all’educazione del futuro, italian translation Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2001.
M. Nussbaum (2011), Creare capacità. Liberarsi dalla dittatura del Pil, italian translation Bologna, Il Mulino.
C) Moreover, in order to prepare for the exam, all students must choose 1 of the following books:
M. Baldacci, La scuola al bivio. Mercato o democrazia?, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2019.
J. Bruner (1996), La cultura dell’educazione, italian translation Milano, Feltrinelli, 1997.
Q. Camerlengo (ed.), Educazione. Un concetto plurale, Roma, Carocci, 2025.
M. Ferrari, M. Canevari (eds.), I cambiamenti delle pratiche didattiche oltre la pandemia. Antropologia culturale e pedagogia, Brescia, Scholé, 2024.
All students wishing to sit the exam are asked to agree on the reading material with the professors.
Contents
Teachers: professor Monica Ferrari and professor Matteo Morandi
In this course we will discuss some important issues of the interdisciplinary research field of General Pedagogy, re-reading some “classic” texts published between the end of the 19th century and the 21st century, with particular attention to the activism movement and the pedagogies of freedom. These texts and studies have developed some heuristic constructs that are crucial to analyse educational phenomena in their complexity. We will also make reference to more recent studies that seek to outline the pedagogical analysis and its theoretical foundations.
In this course we will discuss some important issues of the interdisciplinary research field of General Pedagogy, re-reading some “classic” texts published between the end of the 19th century and the 21st century, with particular attention to the activism movement and the pedagogies of freedom. These texts and studies have developed some heuristic constructs that are crucial to analyse educational phenomena in their complexity. We will also make reference to more recent studies that seek to outline the pedagogical analysis and its theoretical foundations.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Of course the teachers are available to provide students with further clarifications and explanations.
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