Unit METHODOLOGY AND TEACHING OF HISTORY
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A002650
- Curriculum
- Letteratura e filologia italiana
- Teacher
- Luca La Rovere
- Teachers
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- Luca La Rovere
- Roberto Cristofoli (Codocenza)
- Chiara Coletti (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 12 ore - Luca La Rovere
- 12 ore (Codocenza) - Roberto Cristofoli
- 12 ore (Codocenza) - Chiara Coletti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, filosofiche, antropologiche e sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- The course of “Metodologia e Didattica della storia” is subdivided among three Professors, and consists of three parts, each of 12 hours.
The first part of the course of “Didactics of history” (12 hours of lectures by Roberto Cristofoli) will be introduced through: the presentation of the concept and of the types of didactic models; the exposition of the theoretical fundamentals of the approach to historical reconstruction in general (with reference to the application of so-called "cognitive organizers" and to the use of sources in the study and in the teaching of history); the review of the learning resources; the analysis of the national guidelines concerning the specific purposes of teaching ancient history in the high school pathways.
Subsequently, this first part of the course will be devoted to a path particularly focused on ancient Roman history, with case-studies (competence based education, learning tests) and a close examination of some specific aspects also in their modern and contemporary reception. - Reference texts
- Students who attend classes are only expected to know the contents of the lectures, and of all texts from ancient authors presented and analysed during the course.
Students who are unable to attend lectures must contact the Professor, who will provide them with an alternative learning programme. - Educational objectives
- The main knowledge that Students are expected to acquire will be:
- knowledge of the history teaching methodology and of the problems related to both language and content;
- knowledge of the documentary sources for reconstructing the past.
The main skills that will allow Students to apply their acquired knowledge will be:
- Students will be able to evaluate the level of historical knowledge;
- Students will acquire an appropriate methodology to analyze and to interpret sources for reconstructing the past;
- Students will be able to reconstruct and to explain the events of specific stages of the history of a civilization through effective didactic choices.
Let us clarify beforehand that we think that it is impossible to talk of Didactics of history regardless of the knowledge of history; so the lectures will focus also on events of the Roman (in this case) history, chosen as illustrative case studies, but whose knowledge in itself constitutes a fully-fledged formative objective. - Prerequisites
- In order to fully understand the contents of the course, it is useful (but non indispensable) that Students have attended the undergraduate course in Roman history.
- Teaching methods
- This part of the course consists of frontal lectures (in attendance or through remote teaching mode or through a mixed system of lectures delivered by remote teaching mode and in attendance, depending on the provisions in force) that will deal with the methods for the study and for the teaching of ancient history as well as some specific events and aspects of the history and civilization of ancient Rome, also for the purpose of their didactic transposition.
- Other information
- The course is scheduled to start towards the beginning of November 2021.
Attendance at lectures is recommended, and can foster a better and deeper understanding of the topics that will be covered in the exam.
Students who are unable to attend lectures must contact the Professor, who will provide them with an alternative learning programme. - Learning verification modality
- Final oral examination. The examination is aimed at evaluating knowledge in the field of didactics of history at both general and specific level, with their application to the topics examined during the lectures.
The answers to the exam questions will determine an evaluation based on argumentative rigor, property of language, exhaustive exposition of the contents, ability to transpose the contents into effective didactic choices. - Extended program
- The part of the course of “Metodologia e Didattica della storia” held by Prof. Cristofoli (12 hours) will first be devoted to (4 hours): the presentation of the concept and of the types of didactic models; the exposition of the theoretical fundamentals of the approach to historical reconstruction in general (with reference to the application of so-called "cognitive organizers" and to the use of sources in the study and in the teaching of history); the review of the learning resources for ancient history; the analysis of the national guidelines concerning the specific purposes of teaching ancient history in the high school pathways.
Then, this first part of the course of “Didactics of history” will deal (8 hours) with a path focused on ancient Roman history, with case-studies (competence based education, learning tests). The topics examined, also for the purpose of their didactic transposition, in the course of the lectures will be the following: distorted memory: the hostility of the sources towards the emperor Caligula; the interdisciplinarity: the gladiatorial games and the wild beast hunts; the reception of the works over the ages: Tacitus’ “Germania” in the Nazi German; contemporary cinema and Roman history.