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TWO SUBJECT OF YOUR CHOICE FROM MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION - ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - EXPRESSIVE ARTS IN EDUCATION FOR A TOTAL OF 14 CFU - - - -
MULTILINGUALISM EDUCATION

SONIA DI VITO

First Semester 8 FRAN-01/B ITA

Learning objectives

A) Knowledge and understanding
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the materials and approaches
that have been developed and produced in the field of plurilingual education. Know how to
interpret documents related to plurilingualism produced by the Council of Europe and other
international organizations (e.g., UNHCR).
B) Applying knowledge and understanding
Be able to apply acquired knowledge competently and reflectively;
possess adequate skills both to develop and sustain arguments and to
solve problems and apply techniques and methods in the field of plurilingual and
multicultural education. Ability to develop original projects to promote plurilingualism and
multiculturalism.
C) Making judgments
Collect and interpret data useful for making independent judgments, including
reflection on related social, scientific, or ethical issues through research
in addition to those proposed during the course.
D) Communication skills
Ability to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions to specialists and non-specialists
on issues related to plurilingual and multicultural education and the topic
of social inclusion.
E) Learning skills
Develop the necessary strategies to undertake further training and to
carry out actions aimed at promoting plurilingualism with a high degree of autonomy.

EXPRESSIVE ARTS FOR EDUCATION

First Semester 6 PEMM-01/B ITA

Learning objectives

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
1. Recognize the invisible as a structural dimension of reality, understanding how emotions, fears, languages, and narratives influence the perception of the world.
2. Analyze fear in its various forms (internal, communicated, gestural, collective) as an archetype and as an invisible driver of behaviors, choices, and communication processes.
3. Understand the mechanisms of the invisible in the media, distinguishing between news, storytelling, opinion, and truth, and recognizing the role of the collective imagination, opinion groups, social media, and digital technologies.
4. Develop a critical awareness of language, understood not only as an informative tool but as a device that constructs reality, identity, and worldviews.
5. Use the expressive arts and storytelling as educational tools, capable of making visible what usually remains implicit, through writing, observation, performance and workshop practices.
6. Read urban space as text, recognizing the invisible in places, cities and social contexts, and developing an emotional and perceptive map of lived space.
7. Encourage independent thinking and interpretative responsibility, stimulating students to question their own perceptions, automatic responses, and dominant narratives.
Cross-curricular educational objective
The course also aims to train students to embrace complexity, avoiding simplifications, polarizations, and superficial interpretations of reality.
The invisible thus becomes not an absence, but a space for research, awareness, and formative transformation.

ONE SUBJECT OF YOUR CHOICE FROM: VISUAL ARTS FOR EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGICAL THOUGHT IN THE GREEK WORLD, SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE - - - -
LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGICAL THOUGHT IN THE GREEK WORLD

MADDALENA VALLOZZA

First Semester 9 HELL-01/B ITA

Learning objectives

This course aims to give a basic understanding of authors and genres, themes and issues in Greek
Literature throughout its development from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods, as an essential
vehicle for paideia, the educational process that was designed in Greece to shape the ideal citizen
through various forms of culture and constant critical debate. The lessons will start with the reading
and direct analysis of programmatic texts. In the final part of the course, a monographic study will
be devoted to the theme of confrontation with the other, from the supplicant to the exiled, from the
stranger to the enemy.
Expected learning outcomes
1. Knowledge and understanding of historical, literary and critical-methodological issues relating to
literature and pedagogical thought in the Greek world.
2. Ability to read and interpret the analysed texts using appropriate language.
3. Ability to develop a critical judgement of the topics covered in the course and the analysed texts.
4. Progressive acquisition of appropriate language and technical-scientific vocabulary.
5. Ability to independently address and analyse topics and texts from Greek literary production.

SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE

ERNESTO DARIO CALO'

First Semester 9 GSPS-07/B ITA
119806 - PSICOLOGIA GENERALE

SABRINA FAGIOLIDAVIDE NARDO

First Semester 9 PSIC-01/A ita

Learning objectives

By the study of General Psychology the student will be able to achieve the following training objectives.
Knowledge and understanding:
Understand the epistemological basis of General Psychology;
Understand the main theoretical approaches and methods for the study of cognitive and affective systems;
Understand the research methodology of General Psychology;
Applying knowledge and understanding:
Apply knowledge on typical cognitive functioning in educational settings;
Use research methodology and ethics knowledge to design, implement and discuss research data in educational settings;
Making judgements:
-Develop a critical thinking and make comparisons between the different approaches for educational scopes;
-Conceptualize theoretical approaches on cognition according to the modern perspective of neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience;
Communication skills:
Read and understand a scientific article;
Disseminate research data to expert (colleagues, professionals, clinicians) and non-expert (e.g., parents) audiences;

Learning skills:
Apply research methods to foster problem solving in educational contexts (e.g., bibliographic search skills, hypothesis formulation and testing, data analysis, etc.)
Promote the use of scientific research in educational settings;

121714 - THEORY AND METHODS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN CHILDHOOD

COSTANZA SCIALPI

First Semester 8 MEDF-01/A ITA

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide fundamental knowledge of the specific terminology of gymnastic movements, basic functional anatomy, and basic motor and postural patterns (BPM and BSP). The primary objective is to develop the ability to analyze and apply teaching principles (multilaterality and versatility) and to structure a physical activity lesson effectively and thoughtfully, considering the learning and developmental stages of childhood.
1. Knowledge and understanding:
• Know and master the specific terminology of movement and functional anatomy (axes, planes, joint movements).
• Understand the nature and importance of Basic Motor and Postural Patterns (BPM and BSP) as the fundamental units of voluntary movement. •⁠ ⁠Describe the phases of motor learning (rough, fine, and advanced coordination) and the principles that govern them (versatility and multilaterality).
2.⁠ ⁠Applying knowledge and understanding:
•⁠ ⁠Be able to structure and design a motor skills lesson for groups, correctly distinguishing and organizing the initial, middle, and final parts.
•⁠ ⁠Apply the principles of versatility and multilaterality in the selection and variation of exercises and teaching tools (games, routes, circuits) to stimulate a broad repertoire of motor patterns.
•⁠ ⁠Be able to provide appropriate feedback (verbal and visual) to facilitate the assimilation and acquisition of new motor skills.
3.⁠ ⁠Making judgments:
•⁠ ⁠Develop the ability to evaluate the level of motor learning achieved by the group, identifying errors to make appropriate corrections to the program or method.
•⁠ ⁠Demonstrate independent judgment in implementing "motor transfer," or the ability to rework previous motor experiences to solve new or partially different tasks.
4.⁠ ⁠Communication skills:
•⁠ ⁠Develop the ability to effectively use motor language and technical terminology, both with colleagues and students.
•⁠ ⁠Be able to encourage a moment of verbalization at the end of the lesson to allow children to express and summarize the motor experience (what they have felt, experienced, and learned).
5. Learning skills:
•⁠ ⁠Acquire the methodology to develop and improve one's motor skills in a conscious and controlled manner.
•⁠ ⁠Promote physical activity as a long-term healthy habit, recognizing its physical, cognitive, and psychological benefits in childhood.

121755 - DIGITAL SKILLS

ANDREA ZINGONIANDREA ZINGONIANDREA ZINGONI

First Semester 4 IINF-05/A ITA
TWO SUBJECT OF YOUR CHOICE FROM MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION - ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - EXPRESSIVE ARTS IN EDUCATION FOR A TOTAL OF 14 CFU - - - -
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION

ALESSANDRA OLGA GRAZIA SERRA

First Semester 8 ANGL-01/C ita

Learning objectives

The course offers an in-depth exploration of communicative skills in English, integrated with an introduction to the main methods and approaches used for teaching English in educational settings. Starting from an initial B1 level, students will develop oral, lexical, and pragmatic abilities relevant to future professional contexts within the L-19 field, with particular attention to inclusive and multimodal teaching practices.
The first part of the course focuses on the foundations of English language teaching methodology, with an emphasis on orality, phonological development, communicative routines, activity design, and scaffolding techniques for young and plurilingual learners. The second part explores the role of nursery rhymes as a teaching tool to enhance pronunciation, prosody, rhythm, vocabulary, and intercultural competence, drawing on oral tradition and play-based learning.
Through practical activities, micro-teaching, and the analysis of authentic materials, students will acquire the skills needed to design simple English-language teaching pathways and to integrate orality and nursery rhymes into a multimodal and inclusive educational context.
The course aims to consolidate students’ communicative competence up to the B1+ level and to introduce the fundamental principles of English language teaching in educational contexts. Particular attention is devoted to orality, phonology, multimodal communication, and the use of nursery rhymes as linguistic, cultural, and pedagogical resources. Students will develop skills useful for understanding, designing, and delivering simple English-language activities in inclusive educational settings. In terms of the Dublin Descriptors:1. Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of the English language at the B1+ level. Understanding of the basic principles of English phonology and of key methods for teaching English in educational contexts. 2. Applying knowledge and understanding:Ability to use and analyse authentic materials (nursery rhymes, picturebooks, routines) for educational purposes. Ability to understand and follow instructions, activities, and explanations in English. 3. Making judgements: Ability to select strategies, activities, and materials appropriate to the needs of different groups of learners. Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of didactic choices in relation to educational goals. 4. Communication skills:
Oral and written production in English at the B1+ level. Ability to interact in English during collaborative activities, teaching simulations, and educational contexts. 5. Learning skills:
Development of metacognitive and digital skills to support continuous language learning. Ability to independently design simple multimodal teaching activities.

121106 - GENERAL PEDAGOGY

GIORGIO CRESCENZA

Second Semester 8 PAED-01/A ITA

Learning objectives

The course aims to clarify some concepts for students that allow them to think about educational problems in a pedagogical form.

Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, the student will be required to:

know and understand the fundamental concepts of General Pedagogy provided by the course

describe the models of the educational relationship and the relational dynamics between the educator and the subjects in training.

Applying knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, the student must have acquired the ability to:

understand the theoretical and methodological approaches of pedagogy

contextualize and interpret the dynamics of managing the educational relationship, based on the different ages of the subjects in training and the different educational contexts.

conceive of the school in a possible relationship with political systems.

Making judgements At the end of the course, the student must have acquired the ability to:

express and motivate their own pedagogical choices regarding phenomena and actions in the educational field, based on scientifically founded criteria.

identify the pedagogical strategies most suitable for resolving specific educational problems in relation to the school and extra-curricular contexts where the intervention takes place.

Communication skills At the end of the course, the student must have acquired the ability to:

use and express the themes and problems characteristic of general pedagogy with the specific disciplinary language

master the contents of pedagogical logic to explain and describe actions and interventions in the educational field.

Learning skills At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the ability to:

broaden their interpretive perspectives regarding educational situations and interventions, highlighting their strengths and potential critical issues

constructively develop pedagogical reflection towards further disciplinary and interdisciplinary study.

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The theoretical foundations of pedagogy. The "objects" of pedagogy. The methodology of educational research. The operational dimensions of pedagogy. Educational planning. Educational guidelines: objectives and methods. The language of pedagogy and its relationship with educational practice. The system of training places. The age of education.
The course covers theoretical and practical training in general pedagogy with a focus on the world of education. General Pedagogy is a basic discipline in the teacher training curriculum and is preparatory to any other discipline. For this reason its study should be considered fundamental in order to acquire the scientific language necessary to understand the epistemological, historical, methodological articulation that introduces pedagogical knowledge in the national context and in the international comparative perspective of the educational sciences. The definition of pedagogical theory is enriched and transformed in time and space by moving from universally shared principles that have become the reason for educating. General pedagogy shapes the analysis and understanding of the educational process with critical reflection on the elements that characterise educational action, taking into account the centrality of the person, the origin and end of the discourse on education. The connective tissue of the various phases of the educational process, conducted with an eye to the balance between theory, practice and development, is represented by the definition of a triple identity of: subject, object, context of knowledge. The identity of the human person, the subject who knows; the disciplinary identity, the object of knowledge; the identity of the context resulting from the active interaction between subject and object. From the ethical point of view, a specific reflection concerns the humanistic framework in which the values of respect, peace, justice, democracy and sustainability are placed, to which the generations that live their first experience of an educating community and of integral responsibility in school should be educated. For this reason, teaching provides the opportunity to build reflections, good practices, seminar moments, aware of the risk that toxic content and prevarication can be stemmed through the development of educational and teaching strategies to mitigate these issues. In this regard, it is specified that these workshop moments will be taken into account for the final assessment.

examMode

The examination will take place orally and will consist of an interview lasting a maximum of twenty minutes on all the examination texts indicated. The aim of the examination will be to assess the effective understanding of the concepts expressed in the chosen texts and problematised through individual study and/or participation in the lessons, especially in the meetings held in workshop mode, which may already include reflection on some of the content. In particular, attention will be paid to the development of critical thinking with respect to the themes concerning the course, the acquisition of specific language in the sector and the quality of in-depth study carried out.

books

1- Frabboni F., Pinto Minerva F. (2022). Introduzione alla pedagogia generale. Roma- Bari- Laterza. (Parte prima, parte seconda, ovvero fino a pag. 182).
2- Crescenza G. (2024). Ritratti di maestri. Roma: Edizioni Conoscenza.
3- Crescenza G., Rossiello M.C. (2021). Eredità pedagogiche. Rosseau, Montessori, don Milani, Bruner tra sentieri storici e passioni formative. Milano: Franco Angeli.
Non-attending students will replace book number 3 with the study of the following text:
3- Bocci F., Crescenza G., Mariani A. (Eds), (2024). Leggere don Lorenzo Milani. Parole chiave, materiale e proposte per comprendere l’eredità culturale della scuola di Barbiana. Lecce: Pensa Multimedia.

classRoomMode

The course is not compulsory.

For attending students, the coverage of topics will start with the basic ideas necessary to meaningfully assimilate the new conceptual material in the course.

bibliography

Additional bibliography for the purpose of voluntary further study will be provided during the course

ONE SUBJECT OF YOUR CHOICE FROM: VISUAL ARTS FOR EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGICAL THOUGHT IN THE GREEK WORLD, SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE - - - -
VISUAL ARTS FOR EDUCATION

EVA PONZI

First Semester 9 ARTE-01/A ITA

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide adequate basic knowledge of medieval art, through an accurate overview ranging from Late Antique to the 14th century (4th-14th centuries), but with an open gaze to the entire European continent.
The medieval artwork will be analyzed in its formal, iconographic, iconological and technical- material components through the specific language of the subject. The relationships between artists, patrons and production centers will be traced, whenever possible.
Particular insights will be reserved for the theme of Viterbo, a city on the Via Francigena of great importance in the central centuries of the Middle Ages.
Knowledge and understanding: students will have to master the subject and recognize both the artworks commented during the lessons and those studied in the reference texts.
Applying knowledge and understanding: classroom discussion, observation exercises guided by the teacher, research activities carried out in possible study groups, educational visits and seminars will contribute to the development of an active and personal understanding of the subject.
Making judgments: students will have to acquire a certain capacity for critical judgment with respect to the reference texts, but also with respect to what the teacher proposes during her lessons, in relation to the debate on the studies.
Communication skills: students will have to acquire the specific language of the material and they will have to know how to use it in the best possible way to describe and contextualize both a medieval artwork in particular and an artistic phenomenon in general.
Learning skills: students will have to contextualize a medieval artwork in time and space, in relation to the cultural, social, political, ideological and material transformations that have determined/influenced a certain artistic phenomenon.

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The lessons will focus on the analysis of one or more medieval artworks and on the discussion around a certain artistic phenomenon; they will also be an opportunity to practice observing an artwork.
In class we will discuss:
1. themes, problems, methods of the subject;
2. the division into periods of the medieval millennium and its artistic geography;
3. the cultural, social, political, ideological, material transformations that determine/influence the artistic phenomena;
4. the relationships between artists, patrons, production centres.

The course is organized in 3 modules:
1. I module (30 hours). History of medieval art from Late Antiquity to International Gothic (4th-14th centuries): for a general overview of the subject, oriented towards basic knowledge.
2. II module (18 hours). Viterbo, a city on the Via Francigena.

examMode

The oral interview will focus on one or more acknowledgments of artworks shown and commented on in class or even of works present in the reference texts.
It will then be necessary to contextualize the object of study, defining its temporal and spatial coordinates, in relation to the cultural, social, political, ideological and material transformations that have determined that given object.
Students will have the opportunity to start the interview from a topic proposed by them.

The evaluation will be positive if students have demonstrated that they have acquired competence of the subject, also from the point of view of the specific language, recognizing and exhaustively analyzing both the artwork commented during the lessons themselves and those studied independently in the reference texts; if an autonomous capacity for critical judgment will be detected with respect to the issues addressed during the interview, combined with the ability to contextualize a medieval artwork in time and space, in relation to the cultural, social, political, ideological and material transformations that have determined/influenced a certain artistic phenomenon.

books

Students who cannot attend are invited to contact the teacher to agree on a program.

Module I

G. CRICCO - F.P. DI TEODORO, Itinerario nell’arte 2. Dall’arte paleocristiana a Giotto, versione gialla, Zanichelli, Bologna (any edition).

A volume among these:

- J. LE GOFF, Il Medioevo. Alle origini dell’identità europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1998 (rist. 2022).

- M. MONTANARI, Il mito delle origini. Breve storia degli spaghetti al pomodoro, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2019 (rist. 2023).

- A. VANOLI, Non mi ricordo le date! La linea del tempo e il senso della storia, Roma 2023 (Treccani libri, Tessere, 2).


Module II

M.G. BONELLI, s.v. Viterbo, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Medievale, Roma 2000, (2000) https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/viterbo_%28Enciclopedia-dell%27-Arte-Medievale%29/

A.M. D’ACHILLE, Da Pietro d'Oderisio ad Arnolfo di Cambio. Studi sulla scultura a Roma nel Duecento, Roma 2000, pp. 107-115 e 143-158.

M.T. GIGLIOZZI, I palazzi del papa. Architettura e ideologia: Il Duecento, Roma 2003 (La corte dei papi, 11), pp. 107-131.

From the volume Santa Maria in Gradi, Viterbo 1996:

M. MIGLIO, Per una storia di Santa Maria in Gradi, pp. 7-25;

S. FABIANO, La scultura, pp. 109-127.

classRoomMode

Attendance is optional but strongly recommended.

bibliography

Recommended reading

Module I

J. Le Goff, Il Medioevo spiegato ai ragazzi, trad. di R. Riccardi, con la collaborazione di J.-L. Schlegel, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007.

G. Sergi, L’idea di Medioevo. Fra storia e senso comune, Donzelli Editore, Roma 2005.

A.M. Romanini et alii, L’arte medievale in Italia, Sansoni editore, Firenze 1996, pp. 11-48, 77-114, 161-185, 217-236, 269-284, 361-372.

Module II

From the volume Itineranza pontificia. La mobilità della curia papale nel Lazio (secoli XII-XIII), a cura di S. Carocci, Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, Roma 2003 (Nuovi studi storici, 61):

S. Menzinger, Viterbo «città papale»: motivazioni e conseguenze della presenza pontificia a Viterbo, pp. 307-340.

121704 - HISTORY OF EDUCATION AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

LUCA SILVESTRI

Second Semester 12 PAED-01/B ITA

Learning objectives

The "History of Pedagogy" course aims to analyze the historical evolution of pedagogical theories and specific educational practices that have established themselves in the West, from ancient Greece to the 21st century.

1) Knowledge and Understanding:
Knowledge of the main theoretical and practical aspects of the history of Western pedagogy and education; understanding of the linguistic, epistemological, and methodological dimensions of the discipline.

2) Applying Knowledge and Understanding:
Effective and critical use of terminology and research methodology specific to the history of pedagogy and education.
(The effective and critical application of terminology and research methodology specific to the history of pedagogy and education).

3) Making judgments:
The ability to independently judge current issues in light of historical knowledge of the past.
(The ability to judge current events independently through the lens of historical understanding.)

4) Communication skills:
The ability to clearly and concisely convey and share ideas and concepts relating to the history of pedagogy and education.
(The ability to clearly and concisely convey and share ideas and concepts relating to the history of pedagogy and education.)

5) Learning skills:
The ability to critically learn new theories and new cultural and social contexts of pedagogy and education.
(The ability to critically learn new theories and new cultural and social contexts of pedagogy and education.)

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The course covers the following topics:

MODULE 1: THE CLASSICAL GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD
Introduction to the History of Pedagogy and Education; the difference between fairy tales and fables
The beginnings of the history of education and pedagogy; Aesop
Classical Greek theatre and Antigone (only the Antigone/Ismene and Antigone/Creon scenes)
Education and pedagogy in fifth-century Greece
Plato’s pedagogy
Aristotle’s pedagogy
Education in the Hellenistic period
Education in monarchical and republican Rome
Pedagogy in Republican Rome; education in Imperial Rome; Phaedrus
Pedagogy in Imperial Rome

MODULE 2: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Education in the Early Middle Ages
Education and pedagogy in the Late Middle Ages
Robin Hood; the Arthurian cycle; the Carolingian cycle

MODULE 3: THE MODERN WORLD
Education and pedagogy during Humanism and the Renaissance
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Michel de Montaigne, and the emergence of a new “conception of childhood”; Basile
The Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution; La Fontaine
Comenius’s pedagogy; Perrault
The English Revolution and John Locke’s pedagogy
The Enlightenment and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s pedagogy
The spread of the Enlightenment; the American Revolution
The French Revolution and Condorcet; Jean Itard

MODULE 4: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
The early nineteenth century (Romanticism and Pestalozzi); the Brothers Grimm
Froebel; Andersen
The second half of the nineteenth century; Lewis Carroll
De Amicis; Collodi
The early twentieth century (the crisis of Positivism; progressive education; Maria Montessori); Barrie
John Dewey; The School and Society
Pedagogy in the second half of the twentieth century; Rodari

examMode

Assessment consists of a 90-minute final written examination. The examination is divided into two parts: 10 multiple-choice questions and 3 open-ended questions. The examination covers the entire course syllabus.

books

The examination syllabus requires the study of the following five texts:
1) Massimo Baldacci, Storia del pensiero pedagogico. Dall'antica Grecia all'età contemporanea, Carocci, Roma 2022.
2) Sofocle, Edipo re. Edipo a Colono. Antigone, traduzione di R. Cantarella, Mondadori, Milano, 2017. For the exam, students will be required to study only the text of Antigone, pp. 256–345. / Non-attending students will replace the text listed under point 2 with: E. Borgna, Sofocle, Antigone e la sua follia, il Mulino, Bologna, 2021 (both the introduction, pp. 7–77, and the text of Antigone, pp. 79–132).
3) John Dewey, Scuola e società, introduzione e cura di F. Borruso, Edizioni Conoscenza, Roma, 2018.
4) Carla Boroni, Le nostre favole. Favole e fiabe di scrittori della letteratura italiana novecentesca, Prefazione di F. Di Nicola, Gammarò edizioni, Sestri Levante, 2020, pp. 1-86.
5) Course materials on children’s literature provided by the lecturer during the course and made available on the Moodle platform.

classRoomMode

Attendance is not mandatory, but it is recommended.

121708 - GENERAL AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

STEFANO SCIPPOSTEFANO SCIPPO

Second Semester 5 PAED-02/A ITA

Learning objectives

Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of the course, students should be familiar with:
• the epistemological and historical foundations of didactics in the Western world;
• the characteristics of the main instructional architectures and the functioning of the different associated teaching strategies;
• the main biographical elements and pedagogical thought of Maria Montessori, with particular reference to its application to the 0–3 age group;
• the principles and some examples of activities of CEMEA active education, focused on direct experience and on the construction of democratic learning communities;
• the phases of instructional design, applicable to different fields (out-of-school education, intercultural education, adult education, etc.);
• the historical and regulatory development of inclusion in Italy.
Applying Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of the course, students should have acquired the ability to:
• design educational plans in different areas of early childhood education services and socio-educational services;
• apply differentiated teaching strategies in various contexts, also drawing on the body of materials and activities from Montessori pedagogy and CEMEA active education, with particular attention to the inclusion of individuals with special educational needs.
Making Judgements
By the end of the course, students should have developed the ability to:
• critically navigate among possible teaching strategies in relation to different contexts;
• reflect on their own ethical and educational responsibility, making decisions that respond to the needs of inclusion and the prevention of disadvantage.
Communication Skills
By the end of the course, students should have developed the ability to:
• use specific disciplinary terminology with confidence to justify methodological choices in differentiated contexts where instructional design is required;
• use the language of didactics for the design, documentation, and evaluation of educational and instructional processes, ensuring clear reporting of methodological choices and achieved outcomes.
Learning Skills
By the end of the course, students should have developed the ability to:
• independently and critically consult scientific literature and sector-specific sources in order to design educational plans in differentiated contexts;
• demonstrate openness to continuous professional development and to the experimentation of new teaching strategies, techniques, and technologies applied to education.

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The course covers the following topics:
1) Historical and theoretical framework of didactics
This topic examines the evolution of didactics from a simple act of teaching to an autonomous field of research with its own epistemological status. The course analyzes the transition from modernity—with Comenius (the universal method) and Rousseau (child-centered education)—to twentieth-century progressive education, focused on experience and the needs of the child (Dewey, Parkhurst, Freinet). It further explores post-war rationalization, characterized by behaviorism (Skinner), taxonomies (Bloom), and cognitivism (Bruner). Finally, the module examines the constructivist turn, centered on situated learning and communities of practice, up to recent developments in Evidence-Based Education and digital technologies.
2) Instructional architectures and teaching strategies
This topic concerns instructional architectures, understood as macro-structures organized according to the degree of teacher control and the structuring of learning materials. Receptive, behavioral, guided discovery, simulation-based, collaborative, and exploratory models are distinguished. In addition, different teaching strategies are analyzed along a continuum ranging from lecture-based instruction—both in its multimodal and heuristic variants—to student-centered active strategies, including problem solving, case studies, role-playing, and cooperative learning.
3) Montessori: life and pedagogical-didactic thought
This topic explores the figure of Maria Montessori, the first woman physician in Italy, and her transition from psychiatric practice to pedagogy with the founding of the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907. Montessori’s educational thought is grounded in child-centered education and learner autonomy, supported by the theory of the absorbent mind and sensitive periods. The prepared environment, featuring proportioned furnishings, and the sensory development materials—designed to foster self-correction and independence—will be analyzed, with particular attention to early childhood education for the 0–3 age group. The role of the teacher as a guide and humble observer will also be examined, oriented toward “helping the child to do it by themselves” in order to liberate human potential.
4) Extracurricular education: the CEMEA approach
This topic focuses on the opportunities offered by the CEMEA approach (Centres for Training in Active Education Methods) for extracurricular education. Grounded in the principles of active education, this perspective values direct experience and “learning by doing” as essential tools for the holistic development of the person. Through the analysis of specific examples of practical activities—such as singing, dance, play, expressive activities, and nature-based experiences—the value of the CEMEA approach for communication, socialization, and meaning-making is highlighted. Central to this approach is the construction of a welcoming environment based on mutual trust, deep respect, and the suspension of judgment. The educator acts as a facilitator of a democratic learning community, where reflection on action and cooperation promote lifelong and widespread education.
5) Instructional design in different contexts
This topic addresses instructional design across various fields, including vocational and continuing training, extracurricular education, adult education, technological education, special education, and intercultural education. In particular, instructional design models will be analyzed, including the ADDIE model, which articulates the phases of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
6) Montessori materials and activities for inclusive literacy education
This module explores the Montessori approach to literacy, highlighting how writing—understood as a psychomotor process of translating sounds into signs—typically precedes reading, understood as the intellectual interpretation of meaning. The module examines materials for indirect preparation, for the spontaneous composition of words, and for the transformation of the interpretation of signs into an act of discovering meaning.

examMode

The exam is structured in two phases:
PHASE 1: Administration of a multiple-choice test on the topics covered in the syllabus texts. This test is designed to verify the acquisition of fundamental knowledge necessary for developing methodological-didactic skills.
PHASE 2: Those who pass the test (by providing at least half of the correct answers) may proceed to the oral exam.
For each session, the written test lasts a maximum of 45 minutes and takes place in the morning (between 9:00 AM and 1:00 PM). The result is calculated automatically and is visible to the student immediately upon completion. The oral exam lasts a maximum of 20 minutes and takes place in the afternoon (between 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM) on the same day as the written test. It is possible to choose a time slot for both parts. It is recommended to register for the oral exam session held on the same day as the written test.
Registration for each session is open starting two weeks before the deadline and closes 5 days before the exam date. (For example, if the exam is on June 25th, you can register between June 5th and June 19th).
The Oral Exam
The oral exam includes a discussion of the correct and incorrect answers given to the test and, subsequently, an in-depth analysis of at least two of the six topics on the syllabus (you choose one, the other, or the others, me).
Grading Criteria
To obtain a grade above 26, for each topic during the interview, it is necessary to:
1. Correctly define concepts using appropriate disciplinary terminology.
2. Provide specific and consistent references to sources.
3. Propose coherent links with other topics and explore them in depth.
4. Propose examples consistent with the concepts, demonstrating adequate personal reflection.
• A grade between 18 and 20 is awarded if adequate disciplinary knowledge is accompanied by a good level in one of the other indicators.
• A grade between 21 and 26 is awarded if disciplinary knowledge is accompanied by a good level in two of the other indicators.
• If these quality levels are not reached, or are reached only for the topic chosen by the student, the exam is not passed.
For each topic, you will be evaluated based on your ability to:
• Provide definitions of the most relevant concepts;
• Associate concepts with sources (the syllabus texts or articles);
• Highlight links with other topics and/or subjects;
• Provide concrete examples, personally re-elaborating the concepts.
This assessment aims to verify theoretical and methodological-didactic skills and knowledge.
Special Educational Needs (SEN/SLD)
Students with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) or Special Educational Needs (SEN) will not take the written test but will proceed directly to the oral interview on the topics listed above. During the interview, they may use any compensatory tools they find helpful. Notably, these tools are available for use by the entire student population.
IMPORTANT
During the oral exam, you may consult books, notes, concept maps, and other supports. Knowing how to consult sources to construct an answer is an indicator of successful learning (as is done in courts, parliaments, and public debates). This does not mean that the entire interview, or a large part of it, can simply be a "read-aloud" session. You may read certain passages, but you must then be able to place them coherently within the context of what is—lest we forget—a conversation.
During this interview, it will be essential to demonstrate mastery of the topics by critically re-elaborating what you have read and responding promptly to specific requests for further detail, descriptions of instructional strategy examples, references to concrete experience, or connections with other concepts (all topics on the list are interconnected in multiple ways). What is required of you is the active use of information to construct a meaningful discourse on didactics across various fields.

books

1. Calvani A. (a cura di) (2007). Fondamenti di didattica. Carocci. Pp. 17-32 (Cap.1, escluso il par. 4), pp. 43-72 (Cap. 2, escluso il par. 2.3), pp. 125-141 (Cap. 4, parr. 3-8).
2. Lucisano, P., Salerni, A., & Sposetti, P. (a cura di) (2013). Didattica e conoscenza. Riflessioni e proposte sull'apprendere e l'insegnare. Carocci. Pp. 168-199 (Parr. 5.3-5.4).
3. Montessori, M. (1999). La scoperta del bambino. Garzanti.
4. Franceschini, L., (a cura di) (2016). Viaggio attorno a un nido Montessori. Edizioni Opera Nazionale Montessori.
5. More material provided by the teacher on the course's Moodle page.

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attendance not compulsory but recommended

SUBJECT SEMESTER CFU SSD LANGUAGE
119811 - PEDAGOGIA INTERCULTURALE

LAVINIA BIANCHI

First Semester 9 M-PED/01 ita

Learning objectives

The intercultural perspective is fundamental for the training of pedagogically oriented professions in the analysis, monitoring, design and effective intervention in services, social work educational contexts and schools.
On completion of the teaching, the student should acquire
- knowledge and understanding of the theoretical foundations and pedagogical practices supporting intercultural analysis and design about different ages and multicultural education/education and/or literacy/socialisation contexts.
The student will be able to apply the acquired knowledge and comprehension skills to
- analyse, interpret, compare and synthesise the themes, problems and perspectives of pedagogy in intercultural perspective, the ends and means, the systems of hypotheses and the organisational frameworks of interventions as well as trace the operational/procedural models and strategies back to their theoretical and value, epistemological and methodological dimensions
- to argue and rethink the recursiveness between pedagogical and didactic theory and practice in an intercultural perspective, systems of hypotheses and organisational frameworks of education and education interventions from the perspective of lifelong learning and the integrated training system and/or service network.
The student will be able to effectively communicate concepts and models (also through the appropriation of a sector language through the study of the bibliography, lectures and meetings with privileged witnesses) functional to knowledge and understanding, to intervention in agencies, contexts and with subjects in education, as well as with parental and professional actors with whom they will come into contact through the apprenticeship and future occupations.
- Communication skills will be functional to the educational relationship, to the educational alliance with families and synergy with the realities of the territory, to knowing how to work in teams and in interdisciplinary and multi-professional teams.
Expected results
The student will be able to know, understand, apply, evaluate, communicate and learn in the following areas:
1) Knowledge and comprehension skills:
- Recognising and describing the relationships between causes and typologies related to migration paths and processes;

2) Applied knowledge and comprehension skills:
- to understand and interpret the main problems, conceptual cores, systems of hypotheses and methodological choices that characterise interculture as an object of reflection and intervention of pedagogy (including repercussions in the macrosystem, intermediate systems and microsystem), with particular reference to:
multiculture, interculture and transculture;
social factors: separatism/ghettoisation, assimilationism/homologisation/deculturation, inclusion and inte(g)ration;
cultural factors: myths/myths, routines/new pragmatic patterns and reciprocity between processes and practices of enculturation and acculturation in multicultural society;
psychological factors (cognitive: weight of social representations; affective: fracture/separation of times and spaces, rules and relationships);
migration trauma and double absence

3) Autonomy of judgement:
- Analysing, detecting and deconstructing elements related to: culture, belonging to cultures and identity construction; multi-belonging and pluridentity; colonisation, construction of categories of race, gender and class in colonial settings; migrant cultures and education/education contexts, CPIA Provincial Centres of Adult Education

4) Communication skills:
- Designing, monitoring and verifying elements for the development of a training project characterised by inter-trans-cultural thinking, capable of expanding its deconstructive, systemic, anti-racist value on the level of education, instruction and training; teaching strategies for Italian L2, also for illiterates

5) Capacity to learn:
- Derive from the previous constructs and structure in design and critical-reflexive terms original processes of analysis and intervention on targets (ages of life) and contexts (school and out-of-school), with particular reference to:
migration and identity/double absence and double lie;
right of displacement and non-refoulement;
pedagogical decolonisation;
racialisation, sexualisation, militant delirium;
intersectionality; Engaged Pedagogy; Social Justice in Education;
Unaccompanied Foreign Minors;
migrant women: dual vulnerability and project;
family as observatory and project of migration;
schooling/literacy and reception/educational work;
language and work as instruments of inclusion and inte(g)raction;
integrated education system and service network.

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GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

SIMONA FALLOCCO

Second Semester 6 SPS/07 ITA

Learning objectives

The course analyzes concepts and theories used by sociology to understand and explain the
processes of social life starting from the first processes of industrialization and modernization up
to those of current globalization.
Expected learning outcomes:
- Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to learn the fundamental concepts and
theories used by sociology to analyze the processes of economic-social life.
- Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to apply the basic methodologies
of social research.
- Making judgements: students will be able to independently analyze the economic and social
phenomena of the reality around them.
- Communication: students will have developed the ability to process and transfer the knowledge
they have acquired.
- Lifelong learning skills: students will have developed the ability to analyze the complex problems
of the economic-social reality.

SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

CHIARA CARBONE

Second Semester 6 SPS/08 ITA

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding. At the end of the course, students will have demonstrated knowledge of the fundamental topics of the discipline, both regarding the general theory part and to the history of sociological thought. Following the final examination, they will also have shown that they possess the appropriate skills to recognize the theoretical frameworks to which the various scholars and schools of thought belong. Lastly, they will attain adequate knowledge of the survey and analysis tools of greatest reference in sociological research in the field of education.
Applying knowledge and understanding. By the end of the course, students will be able to apply theoretical knowledge to methodological decisions, making it operational and usable in empirical research applied to the field of education. As a result of participating in the course, they will be able to use empirical data collection techniques
Making judgements. Course participants will be able to identify interpretative models of social reality, distinguishing schools of thought and reference authors, about the field of education. They will be able to recognize detection and analysis techniques.
Communication skills. At the end of the course, students will be able to speak fluently about the Sociology of Education, its fields of interest, theorists and basic concepts, also showing adequate knowledge in the use of terms referring to methods and applications.
Learning skills. Students on the course will possess the necessary knowledge to continue with greater awareness in the course, also thanks to the acquisition of indispensable notions, which will enable them to more confidently tackle the subjects proposed in the syllabus.

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PEDIATRIA

ALESSANDRO CAPUANO

Second Semester 6 MED/38 ita

Learning objectives

Learning objectives:
Knowledge and understanding. The aim of the course is to provide the tools for the assessment of the health of the child in its developmental stages, from the neonatal period to the late adolescent phase, in educational contexts. To provide knowledge about the main pathologies in the pediatric field of interest to the childhood educator with particular reference to infectious diseases,
modes of contagion, and prevention. The main knowledge on acute and chronic pathologies
in pediatric age, and on emergencies/urgencies in an out-of-hospital environment will be provided.
Applied knowledge and understanding. The aim of the course is to provide the student with knowledge and skills to identify early signs and symptoms of acute and chronic pathology in children. In addition, a further educational objective is to provide the student with the knowledge to manage the main pediatric emergencies/urgencies in an out-of-hospital environment (epileptic seizure, asthma attacks, allergic reaction, hypoglycemia).
Making judgement. At the end of the course, the student must have acquired knowledge about the main pediatric pathologies, pubertal growth and development, early identification of signs and symptoms for correct reporting and management in educational contexts.
Communication skill. In addition, the student must have acquired the ability to know how to manage a pediatric emergency/urgency in an out-of-hospital setting or in community educational contexts, to be able to identify early signs and symptoms of pediatric pathology for correct referral.
Learning skills. Finally, the student must have acquired the ability to promote an effective integration
between educational, social, cultural and pediatric-health services.

119814 - PSICOLOGIA DELLO SVILUPPO

GIOVANNI MARIA VECCHIO

Second Semester 8 M-PSI/04 ita

Learning objectives

The course provides students with theoretical knowledge on human development in different domains (cognitive, social, emotional) and operational tools to apply that knowledge to the educational context.
The course provides students with theoretical and applied knowledge on research methods used in developmental psychology.

Risultati attesi in inglese

The course of Developmental psychology aims at achieving the following objectives.

Knowledge and understanding of:
The main theoretical models on development processes.
The cognitive, social, and emotional development in the life span.
The psychological processes involved in the educational contexts.

Applying knowledge and understanding:
Ability to analyse educational situations according to the theoretical frameworks and involved psychological processes.
Ability to recognize the level of cognitive, social, affective and emotional in the life span.
Ability to analyse educational contexts according to the theoretical frameworks and involved psychological processes.

Making judgements:
Aptitude to find connections between psychological theories and educational situations.
Aptitude for interpreting individual needs in psychological terms.
Aptitude for self-evaluation of behaviors and skills as an education practitioner.

Communication skills:
Master the specific scientific language.

Learning skills:
Attitude to life-long learning on the psychological aspects involved in the educational practice.
Ability to competently select future training paths.

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PEDAGOGY OF INCLUSION

STEFANO SCIPPO

Second Semester 6 M-PED/03 ITA

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding
By the end of the workshop, students should be familiar with:
 the fundamental dynamics of inclusion processes aimed at holistic development and the
definition of life projects;
 effective expressive and communicative approaches for establishing productive educational
relationships within inclusive processes;

 the most common motivations underlying the choice of helping professions;
 key qualities and tools of the inclusive educator.
Applying knowledge and understanding
By the end of the workshop, students should be able to:
 identify effective strategies for designing educational interventions oriented toward holistic
development and life projects;
 engage in self-observation and analyze their own expressive and communicative styles in
order to select and develop new, more effective ones for promoting inclusive educational
processes;
 recognize their own motivations and qualities that may contribute to establishing effective
helping relationships in inclusive educational contexts;
 experiment with cooperative strategies to build inclusive environments in socio-educational
settings.
Making judgements
By the end of the workshop, students should have developed the ability to:
 critically reflect on their own practice through the re-elaboration of personal experiences
within helping and educational relationships;
 assess the ethical responsibility inherent in the educational role and in responding to the
vulnerability of others.
Communication skills
By the end of the workshop, students should be able to:
 practice active listening and use non-verbal communication to foster a climate of trust and
openness, including through effective conflict management in working groups;
 interact effectively within working groups, valuing interdependence and circular dialogue.
Learning skills
By the end of the workshop, students should have developed an aptitude to:
 actively participate in the co-construction of knowledge within a learning community;
 transform workshop experiences into new insights that support their ongoing professional
development.

119812 - PEDAGOGIA SPERIMENTALE

FRANCESCO AGRUSTI

Second Semester 9 M-PED/04 ita

Learning objectives

Through the study of experimental pedagogy, students will achieve the following learning objectives:

In terms of knowledge and understanding, students will develop a robust understanding of experimental pedagogy's fundamental concepts, acquiring thorough knowledge of its historical and epistemological foundations, theoretical principles, and contemporary developments. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding the theoretical and methodological foundations of empirical investigation in education, with specific attention to diverse research paradigms, sampling methodologies, data collection techniques, and principles of validity and reliability in educational research.

In terms of applying knowledge and understanding, students will cultivate operational competencies in identifying and distinguishing between quantitative and qualitative research domains, comprehending their methodological distinctiveness, advantages, and limitations. They will demonstrate proficiency in precisely defining research problems, contextualising them within relevant scholarly literature, and identifying pertinent variables. Additionally, they will develop expertise in formulating relevant and empirically verifiable research hypotheses, whilst cultivating a rigorous methodological approach to research design and implementation.

In terms of making judgements, students will enhance their capacity for critical and independent assessment based on rigorous interpretation of research findings. They will demonstrate competence in evaluating methodological rigour, identifying potential biases, and drawing evidence-based conclusions. Students will develop proficiency in critically comparing varied interpretations of results, whilst considering theoretical and practical implications within educational contexts.

In terms of communication skills, students will acquire expertise in articulating research findings clearly and effectively to both specialist and non-specialist audiences, appropriately adjusting technical language and complexity according to the audience. They will develop proficiency in presenting complex data through appropriate graphical representations and constructing convincing, scientifically-grounded arguments.

In terms of learning skills, students will develop autonomous research skills, demonstrating proficiency in studying and exploring educational research models and procedures. They will exhibit competence in accessing and critically evaluating bibliographic sources, maintaining awareness of methodological developments, and integrating new knowledge into their professional practice. This capability encompasses developing a metacognitive approach to learning, enabling students to monitor and regulate their acquisition of methodological competencies.

119837 - UN ESAME A SCELTA LIBERA PER UN TOTALE DI 12 CFU

Second Semester 12 ita
121283 - LABORATORIO DI INCLUSIVITA'

Second Semester 3 M-PED/03 ITA

Learning objectives

The workshop aims to provide students with the basic theoretical and practical pedagogical knowledge needed to design educational programs aimed at promoting and encouraging the inclusion of individuals with special needs in extracurricular educational services.
Specifically, the expected learning objectives, structured according to the Dublin descriptors, are as follows.
Knowledge and Understanding
- Know and understand the contexts of the socio-pedagogical educator profession, in relation to the inclusion of individuals with special educational needs.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
Ability to apply and understand the theoretical and methodological contents of pedagogy and special education to promote and design inclusive educational contexts for each and every individual.
Making independent judgments
Ability to evaluate experiences of inclusive planning and select the most appropriate educational strategies for coordinating and implementing competent care and support interventions.
Communication Skills
- Ability to communicate and share, critically, pedagogical and educational choices within the work team, during cooperative learning and inclusive educational planning activities.
Learning Skills
- Ability to learn the different methods of teamwork during the phases of inclusive educational planning in relation to the hypercomplexity of life contexts.
- Ability to understand the main actions of the socio-pedagogical educator in planning, promoting, and and promote inclusive educational action in micro and macro socio-cultural contexts

121282 - LABORATORIO SPERIMENTALE

Second Semester 3 M-PED/04 ITA

Learning objectives

The laboratory aims to provide participants with theoretical and practical tools inexperimental pedagogy, with a specific focus on the criteria for designing and evaluating
educational interventions, the primary tools for observation and documentation, and the applications of experimental approaches and action-research within educational contexts. The goal is to train a reflective educator: a professional capable of guiding educational design through an evidence-based approach and managing evaluation processes in a critical and rigorous manner.

Learning objectives
From analysis to research by the end of the workshop, the student will be able to:
- identify an educational problem in a real-world context and translate it into a research hypothesis
- move from general observation to the formulation of specific questions, narrowing the scope of investigation to ensure the intervention is verifiable
- select the most effective type of investigation (observational, action-research, or experimental) based on the objective.

Observation methodology by the end of the workshop, the student will be able to:
- use structured observation tools (grids, checklists, logbooks) for systematic data collection
- document educational processes methodically, distinguishing between subjective impressions and objective data.

Design and evaluation by the end of the workshop, the student will be able to:
- conduct a context and educational needs analysis, identifying local resources and constraints
- translate the needs analysis into specific educational objectives and a coherent action plan.
Inclusion and diversity by the end of the workshop, the student will be able to:
- adapt observation and evaluation tools for Special Educational Needs (SEN) and disabilities
- apply educational strategies within an inclusive framework
- monitor the effectiveness of educational interventions in relation to ‘individual specificities and the enhancement of autonomy.

Communication and data feedback by the end of the workshop, the student will be able to:
- process and communicate evaluation results in a clear, ethical (privacy and informed consent), and professional manner
- write reports and conduct feedback meetings to share the outcomes of the process with families, colleagues, and stakeholders.

SUBJECT SEMESTER CFU SSD LANGUAGE
NEW GROUP - - - -
DIRITTO PRIVATO 8 IUS/01 ita

Learning objectives

The course will provide the basic theoretical concepts related to private law. In particular, the course is aimed at acquiring useful tools for understanding the main private law institutes, such as subjects, assets, entities, subjective rights, the contract, as well as liability in contractual and non-contractual matters.
More in the detail, the course aims at achieving the following objectives.
Knowledge and understanding. Students will develop the ability to understand the mechanisms of the legal relationship in private law, in a context of rapid jurisprudential evolution, especially in light of the technological progress of communication tools.
Applied knowledge and understanding. After having acquired the correct tools and methods provided by the course, students will be able to interpret and critically evaluate the problems posed by civil doctrine and jurisprudence, at a national and supranational level, taking into account the interaction between the legal systems.
Making judgement. The student, through the use of the methodologies acquired during the course, will have acquired analysis skills and the ability to interpret main legal problems of a private nature.
Communication skill. At the end of the course, students will improve their ability to communicate and present the results of their analyses, thanks to "problem solving" activities, also carried out through the presentation of practical cases on which to reflect.
Learning skills: The technical-legal knowledge acquired during the course will allow students to autonomously understand and interpret complex legal problems. These skills will also be developed through exercises and presentations on concrete cases, taken from sentences of the Italian Corte di Cassazione.
1) Knowledge and understanding (knowledge and understanding);
The Course aims at learning about digital information law, so as to provide the student with a framework on the relevant legal implications.
2) Applied knowledge and understanding (applying knowledge and understanding);
The Course offers the tools that allow to verify and apply, ni concrete cases, the disciplines necessary to make digital activity compliance with the reference legal framework (e.g., correct application of GDPR)
3) Autonomy of judgment (making judgements);
Once you have followed the Course and studied the subject matter, it is possible to achieve a strong ability to analyze judgment independently
4) Communication skills (communication skills);
The Course makes it possible to know the meaning of new words, in a context of cultural and lexical growth, which is indispensable for the expansion of communication skills.
5) Ability to learn (learning skills).


STORIA MODERNA

ALESSANDRO BOCCOLINI

8 M-STO/02 ita

Learning objectives

The course *Modern History. Europe between Expansion, Crisis, and Transformation (16th–18th Centuries)* aims to provide students enrolled in the L-19 Degree Programme with a solid and critically informed foundational knowledge of the main political, religious, social, economic, and cultural processes that shaped Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular attention to the relationships and interconnections between Western Europe and Central-Eastern Europe. Through the study of the transformations of the early modern age — from the Protestant Reformation to the Catholic Counter-Reformation, from the formation of modern states to the dynamics of multinational empires, from military and diplomatic conflicts to the processes of eighteenth-century modernization — students will acquire essential knowledge for understanding the historical evolution of modern Europe from a comparative perspective.

In accordance with the Dublin Descriptors, the course aims to develop students’ ability to place historical events and phenomena within their spatial and temporal contexts, to critically interpret complex processes, and to use the specific terminology of historical studies appropriately. Students will also be guided in developing independent judgment through engagement with historiography and with different political, religious, and cultural models of early modern Europe, thereby acquiring the ability to identify similarities, differences, and connections among the various European contexts. Particular attention will be devoted to the development of communication skills, both oral and written, through the correct use of disciplinary terminology and the clear and coherent presentation of historical content. Finally, the course seeks to foster autonomous learning abilities and methodological tools useful for the continuation of studies in the fields of education sciences and the humanities.

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

Course Title: Modern History. Europe between Expansion, Crisis, and Transformation (16th-18th Centuries)

The course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of the significant political, social, religious, and cultural events in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, with a particular focus on the relationships and parallels with the history of Eastern Europe. After an introduction to the key concepts of modernity and the differences and interconnections between Western and Eastern Europe, the course will address the significant processes of the early modern period: the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, with reference also to the case of the Union of Brest and the relationship between Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine; the formation of modern states in Western Europe, compared with the experience of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the rise of Tsarist Russia; the role of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires as large multinational and multicultural organisations, alongside the reality of coexistence and conflict in Eastern Europe. Special attention will be given to economic and social changes, from the agricultural and commercial revolution in Western Europe to the persistence of serfdom and the agrarian and urban economic dynamics of Eastern Europe. Particular emphasis will be placed on military and diplomatic events: from the Thirty Years' War, considered the founding event of the European balance of power, to the Polish-Russian wars, the conflicts with the Ottoman Empire, and the partitions of Poland, not to mention the birth of European diplomacy that also involved Venice, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. Finally, the course will examine the 18th-century Enlightenment, including the reformism of the Habsburgs, Prussia, and Russia, as well as the processes of modernisation that also affected, albeit with resistance, Central and Eastern Europe. The course will therefore offer a critical and comparative overview of European history between the 16th and 18th centuries, to understand how the events in Eastern Europe fully fit into the overall dynamics of the continent.

examMode

At the end of the course, a final oral exam will be administered. A self-assessment and an anonymous test are planned to test learning progress.
The student must demonstrate that they have understood the geopolitical dynamics that have affected Eastern Europe in the modern era through the case studies covered during the course. The test is passed if the student studies the proposed books and demonstrates critical thinking on the issues addressed during the course.

books

The texts adopted reflect the course's two-module structure:

a) For the section dedicated to the history of continental Europe in the Modern Age:
- Renata Ago and Vittorio Vidotto, "Storia moderna" (Laterza: Roma-Bari, 2021)

b) For the section dedicated to the history of Central and Eastern Europe, students will be required to study three articles uploaded by the instructor to the course's Moodle page.

classRoomMode

Attendance is not mandatory.
Non-attending students can prepare for the exam based on the program and reference texts, or write an email to the teacher to agree on an individual teaching strategy.

bibliography

For the section on the history of continental Europe, please refer to any academic textbook on Modern History, available in the library.
For Eastern Europe: Armando Pitassio, Corso introdotto allo studio della storia dell'Europa orientale, (Morlacchi: Perugia 2011) - available in the library.

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

Course Title: Modern History. Europe between Expansion, Crisis, and Transformation (16th-18th Centuries)

The course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of the significant political, social, religious, and cultural events in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, with a particular focus on the relationships and parallels with the history of Eastern Europe. After an introduction to the key concepts of modernity and the differences and interconnections between Western and Eastern Europe, the course will address the significant processes of the early modern period: the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, with reference also to the case of the Union of Brest and the relationship between Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine; the formation of modern states in Western Europe, compared with the experience of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the rise of Tsarist Russia; the role of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires as large multinational and multicultural organisations, alongside the reality of coexistence and conflict in Eastern Europe. Special attention will be given to economic and social changes, from the agricultural and commercial revolution in Western Europe to the persistence of serfdom and the agrarian and urban economic dynamics of Eastern Europe. Particular emphasis will be placed on military and diplomatic events: from the Thirty Years' War, considered the founding event of the European balance of power, to the Polish-Russian wars, the conflicts with the Ottoman Empire, and the partitions of Poland, not to mention the birth of European diplomacy that also involved Venice, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. Finally, the course will examine the 18th-century Enlightenment, including the reformism of the Habsburgs, Prussia, and Russia, as well as the processes of modernisation that also affected, albeit with resistance, Central and Eastern Europe. The course will therefore offer a critical and comparative overview of European history between the 16th and 18th centuries, to understand how the events in Eastern Europe fully fit into the overall dynamics of the continent.

examMode

At the end of the course, a final oral exam will be administered. A self-assessment and an anonymous test are planned to test learning progress.
The student must demonstrate that they have understood the geopolitical dynamics that have affected Eastern Europe in the modern era through the case studies covered during the course. The test is passed if the student studies the proposed books and demonstrates critical thinking on the issues addressed during the course.

books

The texts adopted reflect the course's two-module structure:

a) For the section dedicated to the history of continental Europe in the Modern Age:
- Renata Ago and Vittorio Vidotto, "Storia moderna" (Laterza: Roma-Bari, 2021)

b) For the section dedicated to the history of Central and Eastern Europe, students will be required to study three articles uploaded by the instructor to the course's Moodle page.

classRoomMode

Attendance is not mandatory.
Non-attending students can prepare for the exam based on the program and reference texts, or write an email to the teacher to agree on an individual teaching strategy.

bibliography

For the section on the history of continental Europe, please refer to any academic textbook on Modern History, available in the library.
For Eastern Europe: Armando Pitassio, Corso introdotto allo studio della storia dell'Europa orientale, (Morlacchi: Perugia 2011) - available in the library.

GEOGRAFIA

LUISA CARBONE

8 M-GGR/01 ita

Learning objectives

Geography is the science that studies the processes of humanisation of planet Earth and critically examines the relationship between Culture and Nature. This interaction has a scientific as well as educational value and therefore the teaching aims to present the complexity of geographical knowledge, its epistemological objects and specific languages, with particular emphasis on cartography and GIS (Geographical Information System).
specific languages, with particular emphasis on cartography and GIS (Geographical Information System).
The basic educational objectives, therefore, are as follows to make students aware of the theoretical and methodological processes of the discipline provide them with keys to understanding the main geographical themes;
The course aims to provide methodological critical acquisition of theoretical and methodological knowledge on the organization of geographical spaces and about the geographical paradigms, rethinking on the society-environment relationships
1) knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of the geography
2) applying knowledge and understanding of geographic lexicon
3) communication skills and critical elaboration of the argumentation and the logical organization of the geographical discourse;
4) making judgements and critical reading of a geographical essay.
5) learning skills

119828 - STATISTICA

FLAMINIA MUSELLA

First Semester 9 SECS-S/01 ita

Learning objectives

Training objectives to achieve learning outcomes.

The course promotes the learning and use of appropriate statistical analysis methods for research in the educational field. In this context, the use of tools, including IT tools, suitable for both the collection of information and its evaluation is developed. The basic concepts of descriptive statistics are presented. The problems of synthesis (graphic and analytical) of statistical information concerning a single variable or pairs of variables detected in a population are addressed, distinguishing the approaches according to the qualitative or quantitative level of measurement.

Expected learning outcomes

With the study of STATISTICS the student will be able to achieve the following educational objectives
- Knowledge and understanding
- to define and identify the epistemological and methodological field of the discipline
- to distinguish the various theoretical fields with reference to univariate and bivariate descriptive approaches
- Applying knowledge and understanding
- analyze empirical context by identifying the type of information to be collected;
- formalize the data matrix and analyze it with the appropriate statistical methods.
- Making judgements
- linking statistical theory to school situations;
- quantitatively evaluate pedagogical innovations.
- Communication skills
- evaluate quantitatively the educational processes;
- report the results achieved.
- Learning skills
- exercise availability for scientific research in school settings;
- access the statistical literature in education, identifying reliable sources.

119831 - TIROCINIO INTERNO

GIORGIO CRESCENZA

First Semester 2 ita

Learning objectives

The indirect internship includes compulsory educational activities aimed at providing knowledge
about local educational services and presenting the tools to be used during the direct internship, in
line with the Internship Project of the degree program. These activities, which support entry into the
professional field, take place under the guidance of expert tutor-professors during scheduled
meetings organized by the University of Tuscia. Specifically, the expected learning outcomes, as
outlined according to the Dublin descriptors, are as follows.
Knowledge and Understanding

- Understand the regulatory, institutional, and organizational framework of educational
services and institutions where the direct internship will take place.
- Understand the competencies and professional profile of the socio-pedagogical educator
across different educational contexts.
Applying Knowledge and Understanding
- Develop the ability to critically analyse and conceptualize the issues and contexts that will
be encountered during the direct internship.
- Translate acquired theoretical knowledge into tools for observing, documenting,
implementing, and evaluating educational activities, through the design of inclusive
interventions functional to the direct internship.
Making Judgements
- Gain autonomy in developing a critical and reflective judgement regarding one’s
professional profile, motivations, and experiences within operational contexts.
- Develop ethical awareness of the operational dimension as a tool for understanding change
processes in helping and relational contexts.
Communication Skills
- Strengthen communication and relational skills needed to interact effectively with the
internal tutor (appointed by the University), the external tutor (appointed by the host
organization), and the team at the internship site.
- Communicate and share personal reflections clearly and with well-structured reasoning,
using professionally appropriate language.
Learning Skills
The goal is to stimulate continuous education and self-assessment:
- Develop the ability to self-evaluate one’s learning needs and personal training path.
- Enhance the experiences derived from indirect internship activities to improve one’s
professional practice and autonomously guide future choices.

119837 - UN ESAME A SCELTA LIBERA PER UN TOTALE DI 12 CFU

First Semester 12 ita
NEW GROUP - - - -
SOCIOLOGIA DELLA FAMIGLIA

CHIARA CARBONE

9 SPS/08 ita
119838 - TIROCINIO ESTERNO

First Semester 12 ita
NEW GROUP - - - -
DIRITTO DELLE AMMINISTRAZIONI PUBBLCHE E POLITICHE TERRITORIALI

MARIO SAVINO

8 IUS/09 ita

Learning objectives

1. **Knowledge and understanding skills:** The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of the foundations of administrative law, with particular reference to the regulation of functions, organization, human and financial resources, administrative procedure and administrative measures, as well as the basic notions of administrative justice, also within the framework of relations with the legal order of the European Union. The course is primarily intended to enable students to critically reconstruct the principles of administrative law, which then find specific application in various contexts, sectors, and regulatory fields.

2. **Applied knowledge and understanding skills:** The course is based on a number of theoretical introductory lectures, followed by sessions devoted to the analysis and discussion of cases. Students are provided in advance with materials, usually consisting of legislation, judicial decisions, or administrative acts, which are relevant to a specific dispute. The disputes are selected so as to reflect the topics covered in the introductory lectures and to train students to identify the practical and concrete issues arising from the notions they have learned.

3. **Making judgments:** Students, especially during the sessions devoted to case analysis, are encouraged to participate and to propose, on the basis of the materials studied, the legal solution they consider correct, engaging in discussion with one another and with the lecturer, as well as—regarding hearings of the Constitutional Court (available online and shown in class)—with the way in which lawyers actually argued the case discussed in class.

4. **Communication skills:** For each session devoted to the analysis and discussion of cases, one or more students are asked to introduce the main legal issues to be addressed, presenting them publicly to the rest of the class and to the lecturer, thereby developing communication skills specifically related to legal language and legal argumentation.

5. **Learning skills:** Through the methodology described above, the course aims not only to provide technical knowledge relating to administrative law, but also to introduce learning methods and techniques that students may subsequently use to continuously expand the range of competencies required of a lawyer, in any profession or context in which they may operate.

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of administrative law. The course covers the principles, organization, personnel, procedures, and measures of administrative law within the framework of its relationship with European Union law.

examMode

Results will be assessed through an oral exam, with the option for attending students to opt for a written exam at the end of the course. Knowledge of the main institutions will be assessed through general questions. In their answers, students must be able to demonstrate adequate knowledge of the basic principles and institutions, understand the aims of the discipline, and be able to apply the concepts learned independently, highlighting their ability to argue and reason.

books

To prepare for the exam, students (both attending and non-attending) are recommended to study the following textbook:
- M. Clarich, Manuale di diritto amministrativo, Bologna, 6th ed., il Mulino, 2024

classRoomMode

Optional

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of administrative law. The course covers the principles, organization, personnel, procedures, and measures of administrative law within the framework of its relationship with European Union law.

examMode

Results will be assessed through an oral exam, with the option for attending students to opt for a written exam at the end of the course. Knowledge of the main institutions will be assessed through general questions. In their answers, students must be able to demonstrate adequate knowledge of the basic principles and institutions, understand the aims of the discipline, and be able to apply the concepts learned independently, highlighting their ability to argue and reason.

books

To prepare for the exam, students (both attending and non-attending) are recommended to study the following textbook:
- M. Clarich, Manuale di diritto amministrativo, Bologna, 6th ed., il Mulino, 2024

classRoomMode

Optional

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of administrative law. The course covers the principles, organization, personnel, procedures, and measures of administrative law within the framework of its relationship with European Union law.

examMode

Results will be assessed through an oral exam, with the option for attending students to opt for a written exam at the end of the course. Knowledge of the main institutions will be assessed through general questions. In their answers, students must be able to demonstrate adequate knowledge of the basic principles and institutions, understand the aims of the discipline, and be able to apply the concepts learned independently, highlighting their ability to argue and reason.

books

To prepare for the exam, students (both attending and non-attending) are recommended to study the following textbook:
- M. Clarich, Manuale di diritto amministrativo, Bologna, 6th ed., il Mulino, 2024

classRoomMode

Optional

STORIA CONTEMPORANEA

TOMMASO DELL'ERA

8 M-STO/04 ita

Learning objectives

The aim of this course is to provide a basic overview of the major political, social, economic, and cultural phenomena of the modern era (from the Belle Époque to the end of the Cold War), from both a national and a European and global perspective.

NEW GROUP - - - -
DIDATTICA INCLUSIVA DELLA LETTURA

STEFANO SCIPPO

9 M-PED/03 ita

Learning objectives

The expected learning outcomes, as outlined according to the Dublin Descriptors, are as follows:
Knowledge and Understanding
- Understanding and knowledge of general concepts related to educational inclusion, with particular focus on disability, Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), and other Special Educational Needs (SEN).
- Understanding and knowledge of observation, intervention, and educational-assessment methodologies to be used for individuals with special educational needs in various life and relational contexts.

Applying Knowledge and Understanding
- Designing educational activities using narrative-inclusive teaching perspectives and practices.
- Designing and evaluating inclusive teaching interventions in different educational contexts, specifically aimed at promoting reading for all and each individual.

Making Judgements
-Being able to express opinions, formulate hypotheses, and provide critical judgments and evaluations on various methodologies for creating and fostering inclusive learning environments through the activation of facilitators and the reduction of barriers.
-Identifying the most appropriate inclusive educational mediators (such as books, e-books, in-books, picture books, read-aloud sessions, etc.) to develop an inclusive learning environment.

Communication Skills
- Understanding and correctly using the specific terminology of the field.
- Demonstrating the ability to discuss and articulate issues and topics related to inclusive teaching practices.

Learning Skills
- Being able to learn the specific content of the discipline through various methods (individual work, group work, etc.), utilizing specific strategies (advance organizers, mind maps, concept maps, etc.) as well as new information and communication technologies.
- Analyzing and proposing educational intervention hypotheses based on experiences of storytelling, creating graphic-pictorial and dialogic representations, from an inclusive perspective, including the use of technical terminology where appropriate.

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The course covers the following topics:
1) Historical and theoretical framework of didactics
This topic examines the evolution of didactics from a simple act of teaching to an autonomous field of research with its own epistemological status. The course analyzes the transition from modernity—with Comenius (the universal method) and Rousseau (child-centered education)—to twentieth-century progressive education, focused on experience and the needs of the child (Dewey, Parkhurst, Freinet). It further explores post-war rationalization, characterized by behaviorism (Skinner), taxonomies (Bloom), and cognitivism (Bruner). Finally, the module examines the constructivist turn, centered on situated learning and communities of practice, up to recent developments in Evidence-Based Education and digital technologies.
2) Instructional architectures and teaching strategies
This topic concerns instructional architectures, understood as macro-structures organized according to the degree of teacher control and the structuring of learning materials. Receptive, behavioral, guided discovery, simulation-based, collaborative, and exploratory models are distinguished. In addition, different teaching strategies are analyzed along a continuum ranging from lecture-based instruction—both in its multimodal and heuristic variants—to student-centered active strategies, including problem solving, case studies, role-playing, and cooperative learning.
3) Montessori: life and pedagogical-didactic thought
This topic explores the figure of Maria Montessori, the first woman physician in Italy, and her transition from psychiatric practice to pedagogy with the founding of the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907. Montessori’s educational thought is grounded in child-centered education and learner autonomy, supported by the theory of the absorbent mind and sensitive periods. The prepared environment, featuring proportioned furnishings, and the sensory development materials—designed to foster self-correction and independence—will be analyzed, with particular attention to early childhood education for the 0–3 age group. The role of the teacher as a guide and humble observer will also be examined, oriented toward “helping the child to do it by themselves” in order to liberate human potential.
4) Extracurricular education: the CEMEA approach
This topic focuses on the opportunities offered by the CEMEA approach (Centres for Training in Active Education Methods) for extracurricular education. Grounded in the principles of active education, this perspective values direct experience and “learning by doing” as essential tools for the holistic development of the person. Through the analysis of specific examples of practical activities—such as singing, dance, play, expressive activities, and nature-based experiences—the value of the CEMEA approach for communication, socialization, and meaning-making is highlighted. Central to this approach is the construction of a welcoming environment based on mutual trust, deep respect, and the suspension of judgment. The educator acts as a facilitator of a democratic learning community, where reflection on action and cooperation promote lifelong and widespread education.
5) Instructional design in different contexts
This topic addresses instructional design across various fields, including vocational and continuing training, extracurricular education, adult education, technological education, special education, and intercultural education. In particular, instructional design models will be analyzed, including the ADDIE model, which articulates the phases of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
6) Montessori materials and activities for inclusive literacy education
This module explores the Montessori approach to literacy, highlighting how writing—understood as a psychomotor process of translating sounds into signs—typically precedes reading, understood as the intellectual interpretation of meaning. The module examines materials for indirect preparation, for the spontaneous composition of words, and for the transformation of the interpretation of signs into an act of discovering meaning.

examMode

The exam is structured in two phases:
PHASE 1: Administration of a multiple-choice test on the topics covered in the syllabus texts. This test is designed to verify the acquisition of fundamental knowledge necessary for developing methodological-didactic skills.
PHASE 2: Those who pass the test (by providing at least half of the correct answers) may proceed to the oral exam.
For each session, the written test lasts a maximum of 45 minutes and takes place in the morning (between 9:00 AM and 1:00 PM). The result is calculated automatically and is visible to the student immediately upon completion. The oral exam lasts a maximum of 20 minutes and takes place in the afternoon (between 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM) on the same day as the written test. It is possible to choose a time slot for both parts. It is recommended to register for the oral exam session held on the same day as the written test.
Registration for each session is open starting two weeks before the deadline and closes 5 days before the exam date. (For example, if the exam is on June 25th, you can register between June 5th and June 19th).
The Oral Exam
The oral exam includes a discussion of the correct and incorrect answers given to the test and, subsequently, an in-depth analysis of at least two of the six topics on the syllabus (you choose one, the other, or the others, me).
Grading Criteria
To obtain a grade above 26, for each topic during the interview, it is necessary to:
1. Correctly define concepts using appropriate disciplinary terminology.
2. Provide specific and consistent references to sources.
3. Propose coherent links with other topics and explore them in depth.
4. Propose examples consistent with the concepts, demonstrating adequate personal reflection.
• A grade between 18 and 20 is awarded if adequate disciplinary knowledge is accompanied by a good level in one of the other indicators.
• A grade between 21 and 26 is awarded if disciplinary knowledge is accompanied by a good level in two of the other indicators.
• If these quality levels are not reached, or are reached only for the topic chosen by the student, the exam is not passed.
For each topic, you will be evaluated based on your ability to:
• Provide definitions of the most relevant concepts;
• Associate concepts with sources (the syllabus texts or articles);
• Highlight links with other topics and/or subjects;
• Provide concrete examples, personally re-elaborating the concepts.
This assessment aims to verify theoretical and methodological-didactic skills and knowledge.
Special Educational Needs (SEN/SLD)
Students with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) or Special Educational Needs (SEN) will not take the written test but will proceed directly to the oral interview on the topics listed above. During the interview, they may use any compensatory tools they find helpful. Notably, these tools are available for use by the entire student population.
IMPORTANT
During the oral exam, you may consult books, notes, concept maps, and other supports. Knowing how to consult sources to construct an answer is an indicator of successful learning (as is done in courts, parliaments, and public debates). This does not mean that the entire interview, or a large part of it, can simply be a "read-aloud" session. You may read certain passages, but you must then be able to place them coherently within the context of what is—lest we forget—a conversation.
During this interview, it will be essential to demonstrate mastery of the topics by critically re-elaborating what you have read and responding promptly to specific requests for further detail, descriptions of instructional strategy examples, references to concrete experience, or connections with other concepts (all topics on the list are interconnected in multiple ways). What is required of you is the active use of information to construct a meaningful discourse on didactics across various fields.

books

1. Calvani A. (a cura di) (2007). Fondamenti di didattica. Carocci. Pp. 17-32 (Cap.1, escluso il par. 4), pp. 43-72 (Cap. 2, escluso il par. 2.3), pp. 125-141 (Cap. 4, parr. 3-8).
2. Lucisano, P., Salerni, A., & Sposetti, P. (a cura di) (2013). Didattica e conoscenza. Riflessioni e proposte sull'apprendere e l'insegnare. Carocci. Pp. 168-199 (Parr. 5.3-5.4).
3. Montessori, M. (1999). La scoperta del bambino. Garzanti.
4. Franceschini, L., (a cura di) (2016). Viaggio attorno a un nido Montessori. Edizioni Opera Nazionale Montessori.
5. More material provided by the teacher on the course's Moodle page.

classRoomMode

attendance not compulsory but recommended

119833 - PROVA FINALE

Second Semester 3 ita
119822 - PEDAGOGIA E CURA PEDAGOGICA

GIORGIO CRESCENZA

Second Semester 6 M-PED/01 ita

Learning objectives

Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of the course, students will be expected to:

- define and identify the epistemological and methodological field of Emergency Pedagogy
- understand the conceptualizations of care proposed by philosophers who have reflected on this phenomenon, the essential qualities of care as a practice, the virtues underlying caring, and the virtues of political action oriented from the perspective of care

Applied Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of the course, students will be expected to have acquired the ability to:
- interpret, read, understand, and define care, educational, and socialization needs within the different formative contexts of individuals throughout their development
- recognize and evaluate the quality of care processes characteristic of the field of Emergency Pedagogy at a social and cultural level

Making Judgments
By the end of the course, students will be expected to have acquired the ability to:
- adopt and evaluate strategies, methods, techniques, and operational tools for the valorization of

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The course aims to support the centrality of care in human experience through a phenomenological and problematising analysis of existence, highlighting its intrinsic incompleteness, vulnerability, need and interconnectedness. Through a theoretical and reflective approach, students will be guided to understand how care is now configured as an ethical, political and professional response to the fragility and inequalities that permeate contemporary educational and social contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the link between toxic narratives and respect for differences, exploring the ways in which education can become a place of welcome, listening and responsibility. The reference texts will offer conceptual tools for questioning the role of the educator as a subject capable of building meaningful and transformative relationships.

examMode

The examination will be written or oral and will contain a series of open-ended questions aimed at assessing theoretical knowledge of the content presented in class and in the adopted texts, in line with the learning objectives. However, for exam sessions with few registered students, the exam may be conducted orally, but this will always be communicated by email a few days in advance by the lecturer. The assessment criteria are as follows: relevance and effectiveness of the answers in relation to the programme content; the level of articulation of the answer; appropriateness of the disciplinary language used.

books

1) Catarci M. (2013). Le forme sociali dell'educazione. Servizi, territori, società. Milano: FrancoAngeli.
2) Crescenza G. (Ed.), (2024). Educare in tempi di odio e violenza. Sfide pedagogiche e istituzionali. Bari: Progedit
3) Crescenza G., Stillo L. (2026). Nessuno è mio nemico. Sguardi pedagogici e pratiche di umanità nelle marginalità sociali. Pisa: ETS.
Per i non frequentanti sostituire il libro 1, con lo studio integrale del seguente:
1) Crescenza G. (Ed.) (2021). Sostenibilità formative. Analisi, riflessioni, proposte pedagogiche ed educative. Roma: Edizioni Conoscenza.

classRoomMode

The course does not involve any obligations.

For attending students, the topics will be covered starting from the basic ideas necessary to meaningfully assimilate the new conceptual material covered by the course.

119823 - LABORATORIO OSSERVAZIONE PSICOLOGIA DEL COMPORTAMENTO INFANTILE

PAOLA PERUCCHINI

Second Semester 4 M-PSI/04 ita

Learning objectives

A) Knowledge and understanding
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the materials and approaches
that have been developed and produced in the field of plurilingual education. Know how to
interpret documents related to plurilingualism produced by the Council of Europe and other
international organizations (e.g., UNHCR).
B) Applying knowledge and understanding
Be able to apply acquired knowledge competently and reflectively;
possess adequate skills both to develop and sustain arguments and to
solve problems and apply techniques and methods in the field of plurilingual and
multicultural education. Ability to develop original projects to promote plurilingualism and
multiculturalism.
C) Making judgments
Collect and interpret data useful for making independent judgments, including
reflection on related social, scientific, or ethical issues through research
in addition to those proposed during the course.
D) Communication skills
Ability to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions to specialists and non-specialists
on issues related to plurilingual and multicultural education and the topic
of social inclusion.
E) Learning skills
Develop the necessary strategies to undertake further training and to
carry out actions aimed at promoting plurilingualism with a high degree of autonomy.

Learning objectives

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
1. Recognize the invisible as a structural dimension of reality, understanding how emotions, fears, languages, and narratives influence the perception of the world.
2. Analyze fear in its various forms (internal, communicated, gestural, collective) as an archetype and as an invisible driver of behaviors, choices, and communication processes.
3. Understand the mechanisms of the invisible in the media, distinguishing between news, storytelling, opinion, and truth, and recognizing the role of the collective imagination, opinion groups, social media, and digital technologies.
4. Develop a critical awareness of language, understood not only as an informative tool but as a device that constructs reality, identity, and worldviews.
5. Use the expressive arts and storytelling as educational tools, capable of making visible what usually remains implicit, through writing, observation, performance and workshop practices.
6. Read urban space as text, recognizing the invisible in places, cities and social contexts, and developing an emotional and perceptive map of lived space.
7. Encourage independent thinking and interpretative responsibility, stimulating students to question their own perceptions, automatic responses, and dominant narratives.
Cross-curricular educational objective
The course also aims to train students to embrace complexity, avoiding simplifications, polarizations, and superficial interpretations of reality.
The invisible thus becomes not an absence, but a space for research, awareness, and formative transformation.

Learning objectives

The course offers an in-depth exploration of communicative skills in English, integrated with an introduction to the main methods and approaches used for teaching English in educational settings. Starting from an initial B1 level, students will develop oral, lexical, and pragmatic abilities relevant to future professional contexts within the L-19 field, with particular attention to inclusive and multimodal teaching practices.
The first part of the course focuses on the foundations of English language teaching methodology, with an emphasis on orality, phonological development, communicative routines, activity design, and scaffolding techniques for young and plurilingual learners. The second part explores the role of nursery rhymes as a teaching tool to enhance pronunciation, prosody, rhythm, vocabulary, and intercultural competence, drawing on oral tradition and play-based learning.
Through practical activities, micro-teaching, and the analysis of authentic materials, students will acquire the skills needed to design simple English-language teaching pathways and to integrate orality and nursery rhymes into a multimodal and inclusive educational context.
The course aims to consolidate students’ communicative competence up to the B1+ level and to introduce the fundamental principles of English language teaching in educational contexts. Particular attention is devoted to orality, phonology, multimodal communication, and the use of nursery rhymes as linguistic, cultural, and pedagogical resources. Students will develop skills useful for understanding, designing, and delivering simple English-language activities in inclusive educational settings. In terms of the Dublin Descriptors:1. Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of the English language at the B1+ level. Understanding of the basic principles of English phonology and of key methods for teaching English in educational contexts. 2. Applying knowledge and understanding:Ability to use and analyse authentic materials (nursery rhymes, picturebooks, routines) for educational purposes. Ability to understand and follow instructions, activities, and explanations in English. 3. Making judgements: Ability to select strategies, activities, and materials appropriate to the needs of different groups of learners. Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of didactic choices in relation to educational goals. 4. Communication skills:
Oral and written production in English at the B1+ level. Ability to interact in English during collaborative activities, teaching simulations, and educational contexts. 5. Learning skills:
Development of metacognitive and digital skills to support continuous language learning. Ability to independently design simple multimodal teaching activities.

Learning objectives

This course aims to give a basic understanding of authors and genres, themes and issues in Greek
Literature throughout its development from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods, as an essential
vehicle for paideia, the educational process that was designed in Greece to shape the ideal citizen
through various forms of culture and constant critical debate. The lessons will start with the reading
and direct analysis of programmatic texts. In the final part of the course, a monographic study will
be devoted to the theme of confrontation with the other, from the supplicant to the exiled, from the
stranger to the enemy.
Expected learning outcomes
1. Knowledge and understanding of historical, literary and critical-methodological issues relating to
literature and pedagogical thought in the Greek world.
2. Ability to read and interpret the analysed texts using appropriate language.
3. Ability to develop a critical judgement of the topics covered in the course and the analysed texts.
4. Progressive acquisition of appropriate language and technical-scientific vocabulary.
5. Ability to independently address and analyse topics and texts from Greek literary production.

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide adequate basic knowledge of medieval art, through an accurate overview ranging from Late Antique to the 14th century (4th-14th centuries), but with an open gaze to the entire European continent.
The medieval artwork will be analyzed in its formal, iconographic, iconological and technical- material components through the specific language of the subject. The relationships between artists, patrons and production centers will be traced, whenever possible.
Particular insights will be reserved for the theme of Viterbo, a city on the Via Francigena of great importance in the central centuries of the Middle Ages.
Knowledge and understanding: students will have to master the subject and recognize both the artworks commented during the lessons and those studied in the reference texts.
Applying knowledge and understanding: classroom discussion, observation exercises guided by the teacher, research activities carried out in possible study groups, educational visits and seminars will contribute to the development of an active and personal understanding of the subject.
Making judgments: students will have to acquire a certain capacity for critical judgment with respect to the reference texts, but also with respect to what the teacher proposes during her lessons, in relation to the debate on the studies.
Communication skills: students will have to acquire the specific language of the material and they will have to know how to use it in the best possible way to describe and contextualize both a medieval artwork in particular and an artistic phenomenon in general.
Learning skills: students will have to contextualize a medieval artwork in time and space, in relation to the cultural, social, political, ideological and material transformations that have determined/influenced a certain artistic phenomenon.

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The lessons will focus on the analysis of one or more medieval artworks and on the discussion around a certain artistic phenomenon; they will also be an opportunity to practice observing an artwork.
In class we will discuss:
1. themes, problems, methods of the subject;
2. the division into periods of the medieval millennium and its artistic geography;
3. the cultural, social, political, ideological, material transformations that determine/influence the artistic phenomena;
4. the relationships between artists, patrons, production centres.

The course is organized in 3 modules:
1. I module (30 hours). History of medieval art from Late Antiquity to International Gothic (4th-14th centuries): for a general overview of the subject, oriented towards basic knowledge.
2. II module (18 hours). Viterbo, a city on the Via Francigena.

examMode

The oral interview will focus on one or more acknowledgments of artworks shown and commented on in class or even of works present in the reference texts.
It will then be necessary to contextualize the object of study, defining its temporal and spatial coordinates, in relation to the cultural, social, political, ideological and material transformations that have determined that given object.
Students will have the opportunity to start the interview from a topic proposed by them.

The evaluation will be positive if students have demonstrated that they have acquired competence of the subject, also from the point of view of the specific language, recognizing and exhaustively analyzing both the artwork commented during the lessons themselves and those studied independently in the reference texts; if an autonomous capacity for critical judgment will be detected with respect to the issues addressed during the interview, combined with the ability to contextualize a medieval artwork in time and space, in relation to the cultural, social, political, ideological and material transformations that have determined/influenced a certain artistic phenomenon.

books

Students who cannot attend are invited to contact the teacher to agree on a program.

Module I

G. CRICCO - F.P. DI TEODORO, Itinerario nell’arte 2. Dall’arte paleocristiana a Giotto, versione gialla, Zanichelli, Bologna (any edition).

A volume among these:

- J. LE GOFF, Il Medioevo. Alle origini dell’identità europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1998 (rist. 2022).

- M. MONTANARI, Il mito delle origini. Breve storia degli spaghetti al pomodoro, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2019 (rist. 2023).

- A. VANOLI, Non mi ricordo le date! La linea del tempo e il senso della storia, Roma 2023 (Treccani libri, Tessere, 2).


Module II

M.G. BONELLI, s.v. Viterbo, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Medievale, Roma 2000, (2000) https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/viterbo_%28Enciclopedia-dell%27-Arte-Medievale%29/

A.M. D’ACHILLE, Da Pietro d'Oderisio ad Arnolfo di Cambio. Studi sulla scultura a Roma nel Duecento, Roma 2000, pp. 107-115 e 143-158.

M.T. GIGLIOZZI, I palazzi del papa. Architettura e ideologia: Il Duecento, Roma 2003 (La corte dei papi, 11), pp. 107-131.

From the volume Santa Maria in Gradi, Viterbo 1996:

M. MIGLIO, Per una storia di Santa Maria in Gradi, pp. 7-25;

S. FABIANO, La scultura, pp. 109-127.

classRoomMode

Attendance is optional but strongly recommended.

bibliography

Recommended reading

Module I

J. Le Goff, Il Medioevo spiegato ai ragazzi, trad. di R. Riccardi, con la collaborazione di J.-L. Schlegel, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007.

G. Sergi, L’idea di Medioevo. Fra storia e senso comune, Donzelli Editore, Roma 2005.

A.M. Romanini et alii, L’arte medievale in Italia, Sansoni editore, Firenze 1996, pp. 11-48, 77-114, 161-185, 217-236, 269-284, 361-372.

Module II

From the volume Itineranza pontificia. La mobilità della curia papale nel Lazio (secoli XII-XIII), a cura di S. Carocci, Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, Roma 2003 (Nuovi studi storici, 61):

S. Menzinger, Viterbo «città papale»: motivazioni e conseguenze della presenza pontificia a Viterbo, pp. 307-340.

Learning objectives

The course analyzes concepts and theories used by sociology to understand and explain the
processes of social life starting from the first processes of industrialization and modernization up
to those of current globalization.
Expected learning outcomes:
- Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to learn the fundamental concepts and
theories used by sociology to analyze the processes of economic-social life.
- Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to apply the basic methodologies
of social research.
- Making judgements: students will be able to independently analyze the economic and social
phenomena of the reality around them.
- Communication: students will have developed the ability to process and transfer the knowledge
they have acquired.
- Lifelong learning skills: students will have developed the ability to analyze the complex problems
of the economic-social reality.

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding. At the end of the course, students will have demonstrated knowledge of the fundamental topics of the discipline, both regarding the general theory part and to the history of sociological thought. Following the final examination, they will also have shown that they possess the appropriate skills to recognize the theoretical frameworks to which the various scholars and schools of thought belong. Lastly, they will attain adequate knowledge of the survey and analysis tools of greatest reference in sociological research in the field of education.
Applying knowledge and understanding. By the end of the course, students will be able to apply theoretical knowledge to methodological decisions, making it operational and usable in empirical research applied to the field of education. As a result of participating in the course, they will be able to use empirical data collection techniques
Making judgements. Course participants will be able to identify interpretative models of social reality, distinguishing schools of thought and reference authors, about the field of education. They will be able to recognize detection and analysis techniques.
Communication skills. At the end of the course, students will be able to speak fluently about the Sociology of Education, its fields of interest, theorists and basic concepts, also showing adequate knowledge in the use of terms referring to methods and applications.
Learning skills. Students on the course will possess the necessary knowledge to continue with greater awareness in the course, also thanks to the acquisition of indispensable notions, which will enable them to more confidently tackle the subjects proposed in the syllabus.

Learning objectives

Learning objectives:
Knowledge and understanding. The aim of the course is to provide the tools for the assessment of the health of the child in its developmental stages, from the neonatal period to the late adolescent phase, in educational contexts. To provide knowledge about the main pathologies in the pediatric field of interest to the childhood educator with particular reference to infectious diseases,
modes of contagion, and prevention. The main knowledge on acute and chronic pathologies
in pediatric age, and on emergencies/urgencies in an out-of-hospital environment will be provided.
Applied knowledge and understanding. The aim of the course is to provide the student with knowledge and skills to identify early signs and symptoms of acute and chronic pathology in children. In addition, a further educational objective is to provide the student with the knowledge to manage the main pediatric emergencies/urgencies in an out-of-hospital environment (epileptic seizure, asthma attacks, allergic reaction, hypoglycemia).
Making judgement. At the end of the course, the student must have acquired knowledge about the main pediatric pathologies, pubertal growth and development, early identification of signs and symptoms for correct reporting and management in educational contexts.
Communication skill. In addition, the student must have acquired the ability to know how to manage a pediatric emergency/urgency in an out-of-hospital setting or in community educational contexts, to be able to identify early signs and symptoms of pediatric pathology for correct referral.
Learning skills. Finally, the student must have acquired the ability to promote an effective integration
between educational, social, cultural and pediatric-health services.

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding
By the end of the workshop, students should be familiar with:
 the fundamental dynamics of inclusion processes aimed at holistic development and the
definition of life projects;
 effective expressive and communicative approaches for establishing productive educational
relationships within inclusive processes;

 the most common motivations underlying the choice of helping professions;
 key qualities and tools of the inclusive educator.
Applying knowledge and understanding
By the end of the workshop, students should be able to:
 identify effective strategies for designing educational interventions oriented toward holistic
development and life projects;
 engage in self-observation and analyze their own expressive and communicative styles in
order to select and develop new, more effective ones for promoting inclusive educational
processes;
 recognize their own motivations and qualities that may contribute to establishing effective
helping relationships in inclusive educational contexts;
 experiment with cooperative strategies to build inclusive environments in socio-educational
settings.
Making judgements
By the end of the workshop, students should have developed the ability to:
 critically reflect on their own practice through the re-elaboration of personal experiences
within helping and educational relationships;
 assess the ethical responsibility inherent in the educational role and in responding to the
vulnerability of others.
Communication skills
By the end of the workshop, students should be able to:
 practice active listening and use non-verbal communication to foster a climate of trust and
openness, including through effective conflict management in working groups;
 interact effectively within working groups, valuing interdependence and circular dialogue.
Learning skills
By the end of the workshop, students should have developed an aptitude to:
 actively participate in the co-construction of knowledge within a learning community;
 transform workshop experiences into new insights that support their ongoing professional
development.

Learning objectives

The course will provide the basic theoretical concepts related to private law. In particular, the course is aimed at acquiring useful tools for understanding the main private law institutes, such as subjects, assets, entities, subjective rights, the contract, as well as liability in contractual and non-contractual matters.
More in the detail, the course aims at achieving the following objectives.
Knowledge and understanding. Students will develop the ability to understand the mechanisms of the legal relationship in private law, in a context of rapid jurisprudential evolution, especially in light of the technological progress of communication tools.
Applied knowledge and understanding. After having acquired the correct tools and methods provided by the course, students will be able to interpret and critically evaluate the problems posed by civil doctrine and jurisprudence, at a national and supranational level, taking into account the interaction between the legal systems.
Making judgement. The student, through the use of the methodologies acquired during the course, will have acquired analysis skills and the ability to interpret main legal problems of a private nature.
Communication skill. At the end of the course, students will improve their ability to communicate and present the results of their analyses, thanks to "problem solving" activities, also carried out through the presentation of practical cases on which to reflect.
Learning skills: The technical-legal knowledge acquired during the course will allow students to autonomously understand and interpret complex legal problems. These skills will also be developed through exercises and presentations on concrete cases, taken from sentences of the Italian Corte di Cassazione.
1) Knowledge and understanding (knowledge and understanding);
The Course aims at learning about digital information law, so as to provide the student with a framework on the relevant legal implications.
2) Applied knowledge and understanding (applying knowledge and understanding);
The Course offers the tools that allow to verify and apply, ni concrete cases, the disciplines necessary to make digital activity compliance with the reference legal framework (e.g., correct application of GDPR)
3) Autonomy of judgment (making judgements);
Once you have followed the Course and studied the subject matter, it is possible to achieve a strong ability to analyze judgment independently
4) Communication skills (communication skills);
The Course makes it possible to know the meaning of new words, in a context of cultural and lexical growth, which is indispensable for the expansion of communication skills.
5) Ability to learn (learning skills).


Learning objectives

The course *Modern History. Europe between Expansion, Crisis, and Transformation (16th–18th Centuries)* aims to provide students enrolled in the L-19 Degree Programme with a solid and critically informed foundational knowledge of the main political, religious, social, economic, and cultural processes that shaped Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular attention to the relationships and interconnections between Western Europe and Central-Eastern Europe. Through the study of the transformations of the early modern age — from the Protestant Reformation to the Catholic Counter-Reformation, from the formation of modern states to the dynamics of multinational empires, from military and diplomatic conflicts to the processes of eighteenth-century modernization — students will acquire essential knowledge for understanding the historical evolution of modern Europe from a comparative perspective.

In accordance with the Dublin Descriptors, the course aims to develop students’ ability to place historical events and phenomena within their spatial and temporal contexts, to critically interpret complex processes, and to use the specific terminology of historical studies appropriately. Students will also be guided in developing independent judgment through engagement with historiography and with different political, religious, and cultural models of early modern Europe, thereby acquiring the ability to identify similarities, differences, and connections among the various European contexts. Particular attention will be devoted to the development of communication skills, both oral and written, through the correct use of disciplinary terminology and the clear and coherent presentation of historical content. Finally, the course seeks to foster autonomous learning abilities and methodological tools useful for the continuation of studies in the fields of education sciences and the humanities.

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courseProgram

Course Title: Modern History. Europe between Expansion, Crisis, and Transformation (16th-18th Centuries)

The course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of the significant political, social, religious, and cultural events in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, with a particular focus on the relationships and parallels with the history of Eastern Europe. After an introduction to the key concepts of modernity and the differences and interconnections between Western and Eastern Europe, the course will address the significant processes of the early modern period: the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, with reference also to the case of the Union of Brest and the relationship between Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine; the formation of modern states in Western Europe, compared with the experience of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the rise of Tsarist Russia; the role of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires as large multinational and multicultural organisations, alongside the reality of coexistence and conflict in Eastern Europe. Special attention will be given to economic and social changes, from the agricultural and commercial revolution in Western Europe to the persistence of serfdom and the agrarian and urban economic dynamics of Eastern Europe. Particular emphasis will be placed on military and diplomatic events: from the Thirty Years' War, considered the founding event of the European balance of power, to the Polish-Russian wars, the conflicts with the Ottoman Empire, and the partitions of Poland, not to mention the birth of European diplomacy that also involved Venice, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. Finally, the course will examine the 18th-century Enlightenment, including the reformism of the Habsburgs, Prussia, and Russia, as well as the processes of modernisation that also affected, albeit with resistance, Central and Eastern Europe. The course will therefore offer a critical and comparative overview of European history between the 16th and 18th centuries, to understand how the events in Eastern Europe fully fit into the overall dynamics of the continent.

examMode

At the end of the course, a final oral exam will be administered. A self-assessment and an anonymous test are planned to test learning progress.
The student must demonstrate that they have understood the geopolitical dynamics that have affected Eastern Europe in the modern era through the case studies covered during the course. The test is passed if the student studies the proposed books and demonstrates critical thinking on the issues addressed during the course.

books

The texts adopted reflect the course's two-module structure:

a) For the section dedicated to the history of continental Europe in the Modern Age:
- Renata Ago and Vittorio Vidotto, "Storia moderna" (Laterza: Roma-Bari, 2021)

b) For the section dedicated to the history of Central and Eastern Europe, students will be required to study three articles uploaded by the instructor to the course's Moodle page.

classRoomMode

Attendance is not mandatory.
Non-attending students can prepare for the exam based on the program and reference texts, or write an email to the teacher to agree on an individual teaching strategy.

bibliography

For the section on the history of continental Europe, please refer to any academic textbook on Modern History, available in the library.
For Eastern Europe: Armando Pitassio, Corso introdotto allo studio della storia dell'Europa orientale, (Morlacchi: Perugia 2011) - available in the library.

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courseProgram

Course Title: Modern History. Europe between Expansion, Crisis, and Transformation (16th-18th Centuries)

The course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of the significant political, social, religious, and cultural events in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, with a particular focus on the relationships and parallels with the history of Eastern Europe. After an introduction to the key concepts of modernity and the differences and interconnections between Western and Eastern Europe, the course will address the significant processes of the early modern period: the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, with reference also to the case of the Union of Brest and the relationship between Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine; the formation of modern states in Western Europe, compared with the experience of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the rise of Tsarist Russia; the role of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires as large multinational and multicultural organisations, alongside the reality of coexistence and conflict in Eastern Europe. Special attention will be given to economic and social changes, from the agricultural and commercial revolution in Western Europe to the persistence of serfdom and the agrarian and urban economic dynamics of Eastern Europe. Particular emphasis will be placed on military and diplomatic events: from the Thirty Years' War, considered the founding event of the European balance of power, to the Polish-Russian wars, the conflicts with the Ottoman Empire, and the partitions of Poland, not to mention the birth of European diplomacy that also involved Venice, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. Finally, the course will examine the 18th-century Enlightenment, including the reformism of the Habsburgs, Prussia, and Russia, as well as the processes of modernisation that also affected, albeit with resistance, Central and Eastern Europe. The course will therefore offer a critical and comparative overview of European history between the 16th and 18th centuries, to understand how the events in Eastern Europe fully fit into the overall dynamics of the continent.

examMode

At the end of the course, a final oral exam will be administered. A self-assessment and an anonymous test are planned to test learning progress.
The student must demonstrate that they have understood the geopolitical dynamics that have affected Eastern Europe in the modern era through the case studies covered during the course. The test is passed if the student studies the proposed books and demonstrates critical thinking on the issues addressed during the course.

books

The texts adopted reflect the course's two-module structure:

a) For the section dedicated to the history of continental Europe in the Modern Age:
- Renata Ago and Vittorio Vidotto, "Storia moderna" (Laterza: Roma-Bari, 2021)

b) For the section dedicated to the history of Central and Eastern Europe, students will be required to study three articles uploaded by the instructor to the course's Moodle page.

classRoomMode

Attendance is not mandatory.
Non-attending students can prepare for the exam based on the program and reference texts, or write an email to the teacher to agree on an individual teaching strategy.

bibliography

For the section on the history of continental Europe, please refer to any academic textbook on Modern History, available in the library.
For Eastern Europe: Armando Pitassio, Corso introdotto allo studio della storia dell'Europa orientale, (Morlacchi: Perugia 2011) - available in the library.

Learning objectives

Geography is the science that studies the processes of humanisation of planet Earth and critically examines the relationship between Culture and Nature. This interaction has a scientific as well as educational value and therefore the teaching aims to present the complexity of geographical knowledge, its epistemological objects and specific languages, with particular emphasis on cartography and GIS (Geographical Information System).
specific languages, with particular emphasis on cartography and GIS (Geographical Information System).
The basic educational objectives, therefore, are as follows to make students aware of the theoretical and methodological processes of the discipline provide them with keys to understanding the main geographical themes;
The course aims to provide methodological critical acquisition of theoretical and methodological knowledge on the organization of geographical spaces and about the geographical paradigms, rethinking on the society-environment relationships
1) knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of the geography
2) applying knowledge and understanding of geographic lexicon
3) communication skills and critical elaboration of the argumentation and the logical organization of the geographical discourse;
4) making judgements and critical reading of a geographical essay.
5) learning skills

Learning objectives

1. **Knowledge and understanding skills:** The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of the foundations of administrative law, with particular reference to the regulation of functions, organization, human and financial resources, administrative procedure and administrative measures, as well as the basic notions of administrative justice, also within the framework of relations with the legal order of the European Union. The course is primarily intended to enable students to critically reconstruct the principles of administrative law, which then find specific application in various contexts, sectors, and regulatory fields.

2. **Applied knowledge and understanding skills:** The course is based on a number of theoretical introductory lectures, followed by sessions devoted to the analysis and discussion of cases. Students are provided in advance with materials, usually consisting of legislation, judicial decisions, or administrative acts, which are relevant to a specific dispute. The disputes are selected so as to reflect the topics covered in the introductory lectures and to train students to identify the practical and concrete issues arising from the notions they have learned.

3. **Making judgments:** Students, especially during the sessions devoted to case analysis, are encouraged to participate and to propose, on the basis of the materials studied, the legal solution they consider correct, engaging in discussion with one another and with the lecturer, as well as—regarding hearings of the Constitutional Court (available online and shown in class)—with the way in which lawyers actually argued the case discussed in class.

4. **Communication skills:** For each session devoted to the analysis and discussion of cases, one or more students are asked to introduce the main legal issues to be addressed, presenting them publicly to the rest of the class and to the lecturer, thereby developing communication skills specifically related to legal language and legal argumentation.

5. **Learning skills:** Through the methodology described above, the course aims not only to provide technical knowledge relating to administrative law, but also to introduce learning methods and techniques that students may subsequently use to continuously expand the range of competencies required of a lawyer, in any profession or context in which they may operate.

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courseProgram

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of administrative law. The course covers the principles, organization, personnel, procedures, and measures of administrative law within the framework of its relationship with European Union law.

examMode

Results will be assessed through an oral exam, with the option for attending students to opt for a written exam at the end of the course. Knowledge of the main institutions will be assessed through general questions. In their answers, students must be able to demonstrate adequate knowledge of the basic principles and institutions, understand the aims of the discipline, and be able to apply the concepts learned independently, highlighting their ability to argue and reason.

books

To prepare for the exam, students (both attending and non-attending) are recommended to study the following textbook:
- M. Clarich, Manuale di diritto amministrativo, Bologna, 6th ed., il Mulino, 2024

classRoomMode

Optional

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of administrative law. The course covers the principles, organization, personnel, procedures, and measures of administrative law within the framework of its relationship with European Union law.

examMode

Results will be assessed through an oral exam, with the option for attending students to opt for a written exam at the end of the course. Knowledge of the main institutions will be assessed through general questions. In their answers, students must be able to demonstrate adequate knowledge of the basic principles and institutions, understand the aims of the discipline, and be able to apply the concepts learned independently, highlighting their ability to argue and reason.

books

To prepare for the exam, students (both attending and non-attending) are recommended to study the following textbook:
- M. Clarich, Manuale di diritto amministrativo, Bologna, 6th ed., il Mulino, 2024

classRoomMode

Optional

Teacher's Profile

courseProgram

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of administrative law. The course covers the principles, organization, personnel, procedures, and measures of administrative law within the framework of its relationship with European Union law.

examMode

Results will be assessed through an oral exam, with the option for attending students to opt for a written exam at the end of the course. Knowledge of the main institutions will be assessed through general questions. In their answers, students must be able to demonstrate adequate knowledge of the basic principles and institutions, understand the aims of the discipline, and be able to apply the concepts learned independently, highlighting their ability to argue and reason.

books

To prepare for the exam, students (both attending and non-attending) are recommended to study the following textbook:
- M. Clarich, Manuale di diritto amministrativo, Bologna, 6th ed., il Mulino, 2024

classRoomMode

Optional

Learning objectives

The aim of this course is to provide a basic overview of the major political, social, economic, and cultural phenomena of the modern era (from the Belle Époque to the end of the Cold War), from both a national and a European and global perspective.

Learning objectives

The expected learning outcomes, as outlined according to the Dublin Descriptors, are as follows:
Knowledge and Understanding
- Understanding and knowledge of general concepts related to educational inclusion, with particular focus on disability, Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), and other Special Educational Needs (SEN).
- Understanding and knowledge of observation, intervention, and educational-assessment methodologies to be used for individuals with special educational needs in various life and relational contexts.

Applying Knowledge and Understanding
- Designing educational activities using narrative-inclusive teaching perspectives and practices.
- Designing and evaluating inclusive teaching interventions in different educational contexts, specifically aimed at promoting reading for all and each individual.

Making Judgements
-Being able to express opinions, formulate hypotheses, and provide critical judgments and evaluations on various methodologies for creating and fostering inclusive learning environments through the activation of facilitators and the reduction of barriers.
-Identifying the most appropriate inclusive educational mediators (such as books, e-books, in-books, picture books, read-aloud sessions, etc.) to develop an inclusive learning environment.

Communication Skills
- Understanding and correctly using the specific terminology of the field.
- Demonstrating the ability to discuss and articulate issues and topics related to inclusive teaching practices.

Learning Skills
- Being able to learn the specific content of the discipline through various methods (individual work, group work, etc.), utilizing specific strategies (advance organizers, mind maps, concept maps, etc.) as well as new information and communication technologies.
- Analyzing and proposing educational intervention hypotheses based on experiences of storytelling, creating graphic-pictorial and dialogic representations, from an inclusive perspective, including the use of technical terminology where appropriate.

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courseProgram

The course covers the following topics:
1) Historical and theoretical framework of didactics
This topic examines the evolution of didactics from a simple act of teaching to an autonomous field of research with its own epistemological status. The course analyzes the transition from modernity—with Comenius (the universal method) and Rousseau (child-centered education)—to twentieth-century progressive education, focused on experience and the needs of the child (Dewey, Parkhurst, Freinet). It further explores post-war rationalization, characterized by behaviorism (Skinner), taxonomies (Bloom), and cognitivism (Bruner). Finally, the module examines the constructivist turn, centered on situated learning and communities of practice, up to recent developments in Evidence-Based Education and digital technologies.
2) Instructional architectures and teaching strategies
This topic concerns instructional architectures, understood as macro-structures organized according to the degree of teacher control and the structuring of learning materials. Receptive, behavioral, guided discovery, simulation-based, collaborative, and exploratory models are distinguished. In addition, different teaching strategies are analyzed along a continuum ranging from lecture-based instruction—both in its multimodal and heuristic variants—to student-centered active strategies, including problem solving, case studies, role-playing, and cooperative learning.
3) Montessori: life and pedagogical-didactic thought
This topic explores the figure of Maria Montessori, the first woman physician in Italy, and her transition from psychiatric practice to pedagogy with the founding of the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907. Montessori’s educational thought is grounded in child-centered education and learner autonomy, supported by the theory of the absorbent mind and sensitive periods. The prepared environment, featuring proportioned furnishings, and the sensory development materials—designed to foster self-correction and independence—will be analyzed, with particular attention to early childhood education for the 0–3 age group. The role of the teacher as a guide and humble observer will also be examined, oriented toward “helping the child to do it by themselves” in order to liberate human potential.
4) Extracurricular education: the CEMEA approach
This topic focuses on the opportunities offered by the CEMEA approach (Centres for Training in Active Education Methods) for extracurricular education. Grounded in the principles of active education, this perspective values direct experience and “learning by doing” as essential tools for the holistic development of the person. Through the analysis of specific examples of practical activities—such as singing, dance, play, expressive activities, and nature-based experiences—the value of the CEMEA approach for communication, socialization, and meaning-making is highlighted. Central to this approach is the construction of a welcoming environment based on mutual trust, deep respect, and the suspension of judgment. The educator acts as a facilitator of a democratic learning community, where reflection on action and cooperation promote lifelong and widespread education.
5) Instructional design in different contexts
This topic addresses instructional design across various fields, including vocational and continuing training, extracurricular education, adult education, technological education, special education, and intercultural education. In particular, instructional design models will be analyzed, including the ADDIE model, which articulates the phases of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
6) Montessori materials and activities for inclusive literacy education
This module explores the Montessori approach to literacy, highlighting how writing—understood as a psychomotor process of translating sounds into signs—typically precedes reading, understood as the intellectual interpretation of meaning. The module examines materials for indirect preparation, for the spontaneous composition of words, and for the transformation of the interpretation of signs into an act of discovering meaning.

examMode

The exam is structured in two phases:
PHASE 1: Administration of a multiple-choice test on the topics covered in the syllabus texts. This test is designed to verify the acquisition of fundamental knowledge necessary for developing methodological-didactic skills.
PHASE 2: Those who pass the test (by providing at least half of the correct answers) may proceed to the oral exam.
For each session, the written test lasts a maximum of 45 minutes and takes place in the morning (between 9:00 AM and 1:00 PM). The result is calculated automatically and is visible to the student immediately upon completion. The oral exam lasts a maximum of 20 minutes and takes place in the afternoon (between 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM) on the same day as the written test. It is possible to choose a time slot for both parts. It is recommended to register for the oral exam session held on the same day as the written test.
Registration for each session is open starting two weeks before the deadline and closes 5 days before the exam date. (For example, if the exam is on June 25th, you can register between June 5th and June 19th).
The Oral Exam
The oral exam includes a discussion of the correct and incorrect answers given to the test and, subsequently, an in-depth analysis of at least two of the six topics on the syllabus (you choose one, the other, or the others, me).
Grading Criteria
To obtain a grade above 26, for each topic during the interview, it is necessary to:
1. Correctly define concepts using appropriate disciplinary terminology.
2. Provide specific and consistent references to sources.
3. Propose coherent links with other topics and explore them in depth.
4. Propose examples consistent with the concepts, demonstrating adequate personal reflection.
• A grade between 18 and 20 is awarded if adequate disciplinary knowledge is accompanied by a good level in one of the other indicators.
• A grade between 21 and 26 is awarded if disciplinary knowledge is accompanied by a good level in two of the other indicators.
• If these quality levels are not reached, or are reached only for the topic chosen by the student, the exam is not passed.
For each topic, you will be evaluated based on your ability to:
• Provide definitions of the most relevant concepts;
• Associate concepts with sources (the syllabus texts or articles);
• Highlight links with other topics and/or subjects;
• Provide concrete examples, personally re-elaborating the concepts.
This assessment aims to verify theoretical and methodological-didactic skills and knowledge.
Special Educational Needs (SEN/SLD)
Students with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) or Special Educational Needs (SEN) will not take the written test but will proceed directly to the oral interview on the topics listed above. During the interview, they may use any compensatory tools they find helpful. Notably, these tools are available for use by the entire student population.
IMPORTANT
During the oral exam, you may consult books, notes, concept maps, and other supports. Knowing how to consult sources to construct an answer is an indicator of successful learning (as is done in courts, parliaments, and public debates). This does not mean that the entire interview, or a large part of it, can simply be a "read-aloud" session. You may read certain passages, but you must then be able to place them coherently within the context of what is—lest we forget—a conversation.
During this interview, it will be essential to demonstrate mastery of the topics by critically re-elaborating what you have read and responding promptly to specific requests for further detail, descriptions of instructional strategy examples, references to concrete experience, or connections with other concepts (all topics on the list are interconnected in multiple ways). What is required of you is the active use of information to construct a meaningful discourse on didactics across various fields.

books

1. Calvani A. (a cura di) (2007). Fondamenti di didattica. Carocci. Pp. 17-32 (Cap.1, escluso il par. 4), pp. 43-72 (Cap. 2, escluso il par. 2.3), pp. 125-141 (Cap. 4, parr. 3-8).
2. Lucisano, P., Salerni, A., & Sposetti, P. (a cura di) (2013). Didattica e conoscenza. Riflessioni e proposte sull'apprendere e l'insegnare. Carocci. Pp. 168-199 (Parr. 5.3-5.4).
3. Montessori, M. (1999). La scoperta del bambino. Garzanti.
4. Franceschini, L., (a cura di) (2016). Viaggio attorno a un nido Montessori. Edizioni Opera Nazionale Montessori.
5. More material provided by the teacher on the course's Moodle page.

classRoomMode

attendance not compulsory but recommended

CHOICE GROUPS YEAR/SEMESTER CFU SSD LANGUAGE
TWO SUBJECT OF YOUR CHOICE FROM MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION - ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - EXPRESSIVE ARTS IN EDUCATION FOR A TOTAL OF 14 CFU - 14 - -
120932 - MULTILINGUALISM EDUCATION

SONIA DI VITO

First Year / First Semester 8 FRAN-01/B ITA
121104 - EXPRESSIVE ARTS FOR EDUCATION

First Year / First Semester 6 PEMM-01/B ITA
15327 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION

ALESSANDRA OLGA GRAZIA SERRA

First Year / Second Semester 8 ANGL-01/C ita
ONE SUBJECT OF YOUR CHOICE FROM: VISUAL ARTS FOR EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGICAL THOUGHT IN THE GREEK WORLD, SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE - 9 - -
120995 - LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGICAL THOUGHT IN THE GREEK WORLD

MADDALENA VALLOZZA

First Year / First Semester 9 HELL-01/B ITA
121589 - SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE

ERNESTO DARIO CALO'

First Year / First Semester 9 GSPS-07/B ITA
120994 - VISUAL ARTS FOR EDUCATION

EVA PONZI

First Year / Second Semester 9 ARTE-01/A ITA
NEW GROUP - 6 - -
121108 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

SIMONA FALLOCCO

Second Year / First Semester 6 SPS/07 ITA
121109 - SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

CHIARA CARBONE

Second Year / First Semester 6 SPS/08 ITA
NEW GROUP - 6 - -
119815 - PEDIATRIA

ALESSANDRO CAPUANO

Second Year / First Semester 6 MED/38 ita
120998 - PEDAGOGY OF INCLUSION

STEFANO SCIPPO

Second Year / Second Semester 6 M-PED/03 ITA
NEW GROUP - 8 - -
119824 - DIRITTO PRIVATO Third Year / First Semester 8 IUS/01 ita
119826 - STORIA MODERNA

ALESSANDRO BOCCOLINI

Third Year / First Semester 8 M-STO/02 ita
119827 - GEOGRAFIA

LUISA CARBONE

Third Year / First Semester 8 M-GGR/01 ita
119825 - DIRITTO DELLE AMMINISTRAZIONI PUBBLCHE E POLITICHE TERRITORIALI

MARIO SAVINO

Third Year / Second Semester 8 IUS/09 ita
118655 - STORIA CONTEMPORANEA

TOMMASO DELL'ERA

Third Year / Second Semester 8 M-STO/04 ita
NEW GROUP - 9 - -
119829 - SOCIOLOGIA DELLA FAMIGLIA

CHIARA CARBONE

Third Year / First Semester 9 SPS/08 ita
119830 - DIDATTICA INCLUSIVA DELLA LETTURA

STEFANO SCIPPO

Third Year / Second Semester 9 M-PED/03 ita