DIDACTICS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FS342

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

Special Didatics and Pedagogy

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PENTUCCI Maila

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

102

Prerequisites:

No previous knowledge on Education is required. Students will need to demonstrate good linguistic competence, both receptive and productive, and an adequate ability to interpret and argue the proposed arguments in a personal way.

Objectives

The course has a double register of objectives, the first of theoretical order, linked to the knowledge of the concepts of didactics and training and of the main theories and methodologies of reference for didactics, in particular in the social and educational field.
The second, of practical and operational order, concerns the acquisition of project-related skills to be spent in the various professional contexts in which educators will operate and a correct use of educational mediators.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Orient themselves among the main theories, didactic models, operational techniques.
- Know the theories of action.
- Know the training contexts and their peculiar characteristics.
- Know the theories of didactic action.
- Plan a formative and educational action in different areas of intervention
- Use media education tools to set up learning environments and intervention devices integrated between real and virtual.
- Assume a reflective posture with respect to one's own training practices

Contents

Didactics and Education
The didactic action and its dimensions
The organised action’s theories
Methodological choices and teaching and operational models
Teaching and learning and related principles
Didactic and educational planning (with practical exercises)
Observe and document the educational intervention
The areas of intervention of the educator
The educator at school
Educational means and teaching techniques
Media education and digital education
Digital skills for citizens

Extended Syllabus

The course is divided into three parts: the first one of theoretical order, concerning the theories of didactic action and educational sciences; the second one of practical order, aimed at making the professional educator acquire and experiment the necessary skills and abilities in the various contexts and areas of intervention in which he will be called to operate, with particular attention to the school context. The third module will be dedicated to media education and digital competences, essential for the exercise of active citizenship.
First module:
The didactic and educational action in the professional contexts and the tasks of the educator; the didactic mediation starting from the reading of contexts and needs, up to the didactic intervention; the formative dimensions of the didactic and educational action. The theories of organized action.
The main didactic models. The methodological choices in the light of the most recent didactic theories. The curriculum and its predisposition. The principles for didactic action and the theories of teaching-learning. How to structure meaningful, motivating and interactive mediation paths. The development of competences.
Second module:
The didactic/educational design. How to start a project located to solve problems and meet training needs. How to document the design path. How to evaluate the design path. The methods and phases of the design: concept of goal, purpose, objective. The reconnaissance of resources, design choices, strategies. Macro and micro-design. The evaluation and its strategic functions.
The educator's professionalism and skills: the main teaching techniques and the role of the educator. The educator's postures, between reflection and reflexivity.
Third module
Media Education: digital culture, fragment, layout and didactics. History and principles of didactic and educational technologies. E-learning in educational contexts, between school and extra school.
Designing media education paths: the content dimension, the linguistic dimension, the methodological dimension, the technological dimension. Digital competences for citizens.

Recommended Bibliography

Daniela Maccario, Le nuove professioni educative. La didattica nei servizi socio-culturali e assistenziali. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
Maila Pentucci, I formati pedagogici nelle pratiche degli insegnanti. Milano, Franco Angeli, 2018. (pp. 23-48; 87-100) (il libro è disponibile in open access a questo link: http://ojs.francoangeli.it/_omp/index.php/oa/catalog/book/305 )
Pier Cesare Rivoltella e Pier Giuseppe Rossi (eds.), Tecnologie per l’educazione, Milano, Pearson. Capitoli 1 (pp. 22-32), 2 (pp. 33-42), 7 (pp. 95-108), 9 (pp. 127-137), 12 (pp. 167-179), 13 (pp. 181-192), 16 (pp. 227-238).
Other materials will be made available by the teacher during the course.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The course will be organized in 48 hours of face-to-face lesson, with practical exercises and operational activities. The course includes about 102 hours of independent study.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination and optional written paper.
The exams will be evaluated according to the following criteria: knowledge of the contents; ability to rework and argue according to the context; ability to grasp problems typical of professional contexts proposing solutions and management methods.

Contacts/More Information

CLASS TIME:
Monday, 11-13; Tuesday 11-13; Wednesday 9-11.

OFFICE TIME:
Wednesday, h. 3-5 P.M., by appointment by e-mail.
e-mail: maila.pentucci@unich.it

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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