Teaching activities aim at building knowledge, skills and competencies in understanding, designing and evaluating social contexts with formal or informal educational purposes. These skills are functional in knowing how to design and manage job opportunities in the areas of communication and marketing, advertising, information and publishing for educational and third sector activities. This teaching therefore contributes to the formation of the professional profiles identified in framework A2.a of the Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies.
Expected Learning Outcomes. Specifically, upon completion of the course, the student will be able to: 1. briefly present the paradigms and functions of general pedagogy; 2. distinguish and discuss the objects of social pedagogy (products, processes and systems); 3. design, implement and evaluate communication tools in social and educational fields. 4. know the main teaching methodologies and scenarios of future education. 5. argue the problematic of the social component in one's own education and that of territorial educational contexts. 6. distinguish and apply processes of feedback and self-assessment in education.
Course Prerequisites
No prior knowledge required.
Teaching Methods
- Frontal lecture - Group work - Service Learning - Narrative methodologies - Practical exercises - Testimonials from outside experts
Assessment Methods
- Assessment of learning will take place through a written exam (with multiple-choice and semistructured questions) covering the content discussed and tested during the course discussed and tested during the course which will give access to the oral exam. A number of exercises are planned during the course that will contribute to the final exam.
Contents
General Pedagogy Guidelines. The reflective construct and narrativity. What is Social Pedagogy: key concepts. Methodologies of social analysis. Social design methodologies The communication of social and educational contexts The main teaching methodologies and their evolution.
Course Language
Italian
More information
- The lecturer receives by appointment to be arranged by e-mail at: letizia.ferri@uninsubria.it. - Students are asked to communicate at the beginning of the course, again by e-mail, any specific needs of students, especially those related to learning disorders.
