ADULT EDUCATION
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 2° Year - Curriculum Educatore sociale e di comunitÃCredit Value: 10
Scientific field: M-PED/01 - THEORIES AND SCIENCE OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Taught classes: 60 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Learning Objectives
The aims of the discipline are:
to acquire the specific language of the discipline;
to recognize some elements of diachronic development of adult education;
to identify today's epistemological references;
to identify the main research topics;
to identify contexts of action for adult education;
to recognize international guidelines for adult education.
Course Structure
The course is organised into lectures (about 40% of classroom hours) and classroom work (60%). Students will be asked to re-elaborate the contents of the lessons, work in small groups, present the work done in the classroom at home.
It is possible to participate in a University Laboratory entitled "The Landscapes of the Mafias" and at the Italian school for foreigners of the Community of S. Egidio. The activity performed will be credited.
Detailed Course Content
Elements of history of adult education in Europe
From the campains against illiteracy in Italy to the Centers for Lifelong Learning of Adults in Italy
Permanent education and Lifelong learning
Learning in adulthood. Some theories of learning in adulthood
Adult Learning in the workplace. Continuing education
Theories on adulthood
Learning in the city: the model of learning cities
Social inclusion: the pedagogy of the oppressed
Textbook Information
Alberici, M., Imparare sempre nella società della conoscenza, Mondadori, Milano, 2002, pp. 1-160
Freire, P., Pedagogy of the oppressed, Continuum, London- New York, 2007
Longworth, N., Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities. Lifelong Learning and Local Government, Routledge, London and New York, 2006