The course aims to offer expert knowledge of children social and emotional development. At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Know in details how social and emotional competence (considered as a multi-component phenomenon) develop across time starting from the first months of life; protective and risk factors involved in the social-emotional development (including the development of emotion regulation, empathy and moral development) across contexts (family, school, peers); methods for assessing socio-emotional development and intervention to promote children’s positive socio-emotional development; theories on social and emotional development
- Elaborate and correctly apply theoretical knowledge into the different contexts of development, including typical and atypical
- To analyze in a critical and independent way the scientific literature in the field
- To deepen the understanding of aspects of interest (including theory, assessment methods and intervention approaches) referring to the most recent scientific literature
- Discuss in a critical way the knowledge acquired during the course when working in small groups, big groups, and with the teacher, using an appropriate and scientifically informed language