Unit Pedagogy of Educational Needs

Course
Primary teacher education
Study-unit Code
A002004
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Alessia Signorelli
Teachers
  • Alessia Signorelli
Hours
  • 48 ore - Alessia Signorelli
CFU
8
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2024/25
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

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
Oral exam lasting approximately 15 minutes, aimed at verifying the students' ability to: present the knowledge acquired during the course in a logical and critical manner, know how to critically examine contemporary educational problems, have an in-depth understanding of the concepts and the ability to personal reworking of contents.

Students with disabilities and/or DSA are invited to visit the page dedicated to the tools and measures envisaged and to agree in advance what is necessary with the teacher (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e -dsa)".

For Erasmus students: contact the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree on the exam program together
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.
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