Unit SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION (CHILDHOOD 0-3)

Course
Sciences of education
Study-unit Code
40014104
Curriculum
Educatore dei servizi educativi per l'lnfanzia
Teacher
Silvia Fornari
Teachers
  • Silvia Fornari
Hours
  • 36 ore - Silvia Fornari
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Base
Area
Discipline filosofiche, psicologiche, sociologiche e antropologiche
Academic discipline
SPS/07
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The teaching aims to:
- provide theoretical and methodological tools for interpreting the relationship between education and society, in the light of the transformation of contemporary contexts and identities;
- provide design information to use this knowledge in the management of contemporary educational processes.
Reference texts
1) Satta C., “Bambini e adulti: la nuova sociologia dell’infanzia”, Roma, Carocci 2012.
2) Ghigi R., "Fare la differenza. Educazione di genere dalla prima infanzia all'età adulta", il Mulino, Bologna 2019.

Per approfondimento:
Fornari S. (a cura di), EDU SOSTENIBILE
La comunità nella sostenibilità educativa per l’infanzia, Aracne, Roma 2021.
Erasmus students can request a bibliography in English.
Educational objectives
The course is aimed at the acquisition of: 
- socio-cultural knowledge that allows to understand and understand the evolution of formal and informal educational agencies, even in an integrated and interdisciplinary perspective, in the light of social change; 
- analytical skills related to the ability to apply acquired knowledge. In particular, it refers to the ability to read and interpret socio-educational phenomena by carrying out empirical research activities and by reading academic and scientific texts and by analyzing educational materials of various kinds (eg multimedia And digital). 
Ability to synthesize and create thematic and cross-disciplinary links of disciplinary content. 
- autonomy of judgment, useful to read critically the most controversial and controversial issues of the discipline, also in relation to the development of public debate, also in order to elaborate and support one's own position supported by arguments. 
- communicative, socio-relational and design skills that enable you to work individually and in a group and to communicate the concepts and ideas that are acquired and elaborated in an original way in an adequate and convincing manner. Ability to design innovative and targeted and targeted targeting actions.
- ability to learn to learn: to acquire the ability to continuously implement its knowledge base, making it spendable in the workplace and professional in general.
Prerequisites
In order to be able to deepen and develop a critical analysis of the issues that will be addressed in the course, you must know the basics of general sociology. In specific knowledge concerning: socialization processes, social institutions and social roles.
Teaching methods
The course is organized as follows:
- Classroom lectures on all subjects of the course;
- supplementary seminars that will be organized by the lecturer or his / her co-ordinators on issues of in-depth study.
Other information
Follow integrative seminars that will be organized by the teacher or by colleagues of the CdS on issues of deepening.
Frequency is strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Learning verification modality
The exam is oral. The oral exam in a discussion lasting about 15-20 minutes, aimed at ascertaining the level of knowledge and understanding achieved by students on the theoretical and methodological implications mentioned in the program. The questions focus on the program as described by the teacher in the relevant data, taking into account to verify the communication skills of the student / or properties of language and autonomous organization of the exhibition, to the knowledge of the subject, the ability to reason, to the logic of 'argument and learning the method devised by the individual teaching.
Not compulsory, but optional, is the possibility for attending students to carry out a paper that can exclusively replace or complete the oral exam in the discussion of a topic chosen from those covered in class with an in-depth study that can be carried out according to the following methodologies: presentation of a case to the class with theoretical references and research, statistical data and conclusions personal criticism. Such work may be presented in power point (or other software program) or only orally, but both in a special meeting held in the presence of all the students, either individually or as a team.In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded.
Extended program
- Socialization processes and agencies; - Problems of cohesion and social integration; - Theories of education; - Comparing models and education systems. - Education systems and social inequalities; - The new sociology of education. - Educational disparities from a gender perspective.
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