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 from birth to old age. 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.

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) Social categorization and its psychological processes.

4) The representation of motherhood and fatherhood in life span.

-Berti A.E., Bombi A.S., Corso di psicologia dello sviluppo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018.
-De Caroli M.E., Categorizzazione sociale e costruzione del pregiudizio. Riflessioni e ricerche sulla formazione degli atteggiamenti di «genere» ed «etnia», Franco Angeli, Milano, 2005.
-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., 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