TEACHING AND EDUCATION FOR BODY AND MOVEMENT
Module TEACHING

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: RAFFAELLA CARMEN STRONGOLI

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge and skills regarding the main theoretical assumptions of implementation devices and research methods used in education with particular reference to the design of contexts, spaces and activities for children, including with reference to play aspects.

Specifically, the expected learning objectives are as follows:

  • To know, distinguish and identify peculiarities of different educational theories (DD1);
  • To know the theoretical perspectives of didactics and different contexts of action (DD1); 
  • Know and appropriately use the basic vocabulary of the discipline (DD1);
  • Know the training needs peculiar to different ages of life, distinguish them according to educational contexts, and be able to apply such knowledge in simulated form through hypotheses and examples (DD2);
  • Perform operations to synthesize and link theoretical content, methods and strategies to configure hypotheses for solving educational problems (DD3);
  • Identify tasks and roles within an organizational structure of educational and training services (DD2);
  • Conduct forms of self-assessment of one's own learning oriented to the development of professional action (DD5);
  • Argue, justifying their reasons, around choices of objectives, procedures and methodologies (DD4).

Course Structure

Teaching activities will be carried out following constructivist-inspired models, methods and techniques, so there will be interactive lectures accompanied by practical classroom activities (case history, simulation, group work/discussion), with laboratory exercises, which will have an exclusively formative function (they will affect teaching, not the final grade).

Required Prerequisites

No one

Attendance of Lessons

Not mandatory, but strongly recommended as it enables participation in debate training activities useful for acquiring critical and analytical viewpoints with respect to the topics covered in the course

Detailed Course Content

The following themes and conceptual cores will be covered and deepened: origin and development of the idea of didactics, educational design, educational interaction in its symbolic, cognitive and epistemological components, the domains and contexts of didactics, the methodological-cognitive dimension, peculiarities of educational design in the ecological field and the related design of learning environments.

Textbook Information

Bonaiuti G., Calvani A., Ranieri M., Fondamenti di didattica. Teoria e prassi dei dispositivi formativi. Roma: Carocci,   11a ristampa 2023, pp. 232.
Strongoli R.C., Verso un'ecodidattica. Tempi, spazi, ambienti. Lecce: Pensa Multimedia, 2021, pp.186.

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Origin and development of the idea of didacticsFondamenti di didattica
2The methodological-decisional dimensionFondamenti di didattica
3The implementation and negotiation dimensionFondamenti di didattica
4 The areas of teachingFondamenti di didattica
5The methodological-cognitive dimensionFondamenti di didattica
6The epistemological framework of ecodidacticsVerso un'ecodidattica
7Origins and nexus of ecodidacticsVerso un'ecodidattica
8Traits and elements of an ecodidacticsVerso un'ecodidattica
9Environments: plural ecodidactic pathways and practicesVerso un'ecodidattica

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The exam consists of two parts:

  • a written test consisting of 20 multiple-choice questions on the topics covered in the course, which is considered passed with at least 12 correct answers
  • an oral test aimed at critically examining in depth the answers given in the written test

Passing the written test gives access to the oral test, which will take place on the same day. The number of correct answers given in the written test does not mechanically predetermine the final grade. 

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

- Origin and development of the idea of didactics

- Educational research in Europe and Italy

- The methodological-decisional dimension: educational design

- Didactic interaction in its symbolic, cognitive and epistemological components

- The domains of didactics

- The methodological-cognitive dimension

- The action-reflection circuit (and good practices)

- Peculiarities of ecodidactics

- Design of relational learning environments