DEVELOPMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

The aim of the course is to provide the main theories linked to Developmental and Educational Psychology, centred on complex dynamics related to human development in life context. At the end of the course the students should be able to know the specific terminology and the fundamental contents of Developmental and Educational Psychology, to apply them to their professional jobs, to collborate to the realization of trainings and actions functional to realize the well-being of targets of psychological action.

frontal lessons

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

In detail, the fundamental topics will be:

1) Development of perception, memory, cognition, meta-cognition, personality, language, morality.

2) Creativity in theoretical and empirical perspectives and applications to socio-educational field.

3)The representation of motherwood and paternity in ldifferent contexts

4) The prejudicial attitudes towards specific targets

-Berti A.E., Bombi A.S., Corso di psicologia dello sviluppo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018..
-De Caroli M.E., Pensare, essere, fare... creativamente, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2009.
-De Caroli M.E., Sagone E., Maternità e paternità. Punti di vista a confronto sulla genitorialità, Bonanno Editore, Acireale-Roma, 2011

De Caroli M.E., Sagone E., Siblings and disability: A study on social attitudes toward disabled brothers and sisters, Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 93, 2013, pp. 1217-1223.

De Caroli M.E., Falanga R., Sagone E., Ethnic awareness, self-identification, and attitudes toward ingroup and outgroup in Italian, Chinese, and African pupils, Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013, vol. 93, pp.444-448.

Falanga R., De Caroli M.E., Sagone E., Are value priorities predictors of prejudice? A study with Italian adolescents, Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015, vol. 191, pp.296-301

De Caroli M.E., Sagone E., Divergent thinking in children with Down syndrome. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier Ltd, 2014, vol.141, pp.875-880.

-De Caroli M.E., Falanga R., Licciardello O., & Sagone E. (2017), How can we enhance creativity in childhood? An action research with Italian children, INFAD-Revista de Psicología, 1, pp.95-102. ISSN: 0214-9877