Unit Pedagogy of Educational Needs
- Course
- Primary teacher education
- Study-unit Code
- A002004
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Alessia Signorelli
- Teachers
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- Alessia Signorelli
- Hours
- 48 ore - Alessia Signorelli
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Pedagogia generale e sociale
- Academic discipline
- M-PED/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course intends to propose challenging interpretations that place the subject at the center of its reflection as the bearer of increasingly complex and articulated educational and training needs.
In particular, the objective of the Course is to analyze and reflect on the concepts of pedagogical devices, theorized by Michel Foucault together with the idea of ¿¿subjectivation, proposed by Jacques Lacan and repositioned within the pedagogical-educational discourse, to arrive at education which practice of freedom as theorized by the American scholar bell hooks. - Reference texts
- Mandatory for the exam: Cappa, F. (2015) Foucault come educatore. Spazio, tempo, corpo e cura nei dispositivi pedagogici Pesare, M. (2017) Il soggetto barrato – per una psicopedagogia di orientamento lacaniano, Mimesis bell hooks (2020) Insegnare a trasgredire. L’educazione come pratica della libertà, Meltemi 4. Marsili, Francesco, Morganti, Annalisa "Oltre la gifted education. Verso un'educazione inclusiva per lo sviluppo del potenziale" Milano: Mondadori 2025 Further suggested readings: bell hooks (2020) Insegnare il pensiero critico, Meltemi Pesare, M. (2021) Soggettivazione e apocalissi culturali. Filosofia dell'educazione di orientamento lacaniano nel tempo della crisi, Edizioni ETS Antonacci, F., Cappa, F. (2023) Riccardo Massa: Lezioni su La peste, il teatro, l’educazione, FrancoAngeli Freire, P. (2014) Pedagogia dell’autonomia. Saperi necessari per la pratica educative, Edizioni GruppoAbele
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to:
Introduce a profound reflection on the idea of ¿¿pedagogical device, subject, care and education as a practice of freedom and provide the student with adequate critical tools for understanding the centrality occupied by these aspects in the pedagogical field.
Encourage students to develop their own critical thinking capable of interpreting the complexity of the relationship between education and the present with a critical and intersectional gaze in order to develop adequate responses to contemporary educational emergencies
Provide students with the necessary tools to develop critical thinking capable of connecting the nuances inherent to the subject's training path and its relationship with the educational, social and cultural reality.
In terms of autonomy of judgement:
Understanding contemporary educational thinking;
Identify and generalize educational phenomena and processes.
Develop critical thinking and an intersectional look at contemporary educational issues
In terms of learning ability:
- Understand today's educational challenge and propose innovative perspectives in light of new pedagogical - educational orientations;
- Know how to connect the different pedagogical-educational approaches by orienting yourself among the reference literature
- Knowing how to reread and understand one's own experiences both as subjects in training and as future teachers according to a critical pedagogical - educational perspective - Prerequisites
- None
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, group work, guided reflections
- Other information
- None
- Learning verification modality
- The assessment of the learning objectives will be carried out through a written exam, consisting of two open-ended questions on topics covered during the course. Students will have 30 minutes to answer each question, for a total of 60 minutes. The minimum passing grade is 18 out of 30. In the case of a maximum score (30/30), honors (cum laude) may be awarded. Students with disabilities and/or specific learning disorders (SLD) are invited to visit the page dedicated to available tools and support measures and to make arrangements in advance with the instructor: https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For Erasmus students: please contact the instructor at the beginning of the course to agree on the exam syllabus.
- Extended program
- Define the construct of a pedagogical device and "what it is used for".
J. Lacan's contribution to education: connections between psychology, philosophy and pedagogy: the concept of "subjectivation", "Graph of Desire" and the "Pedagogical Oedipus"
Bell Hooks' contribution to education: repositioning the concept of "transgression" within a critical approach and understanding education as a practice of freedom.
The concept of "engaged pedagogy" and the intersectional look at the problems of education today. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- N.4
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.