EDUCAZIONE COMPARATA CON LABORATORIO

Module EDUCAZIONE COMPARATA

• Comparative education has a relatively recent disciplinary tradition, and the purpose of which is the identification and analysis, in a comparative key, of specific problems and educational issues. In this perspective, it is configured as a research discipline that tends to identify new knowledge, of a theoretical and practical nature, through the comparison between two or more educational systems (in use in different countries, in different regions, in different historical periods, in different places of formal and informal education, etc.).

  The course aims to the theoretical and methodological foundations of comparative education.

  The educational objectives are as follows:

  • to define and identify the historical, theoretical and methodological foundations of comparative education;
  • to acquire comparative analysis skills, from a historical point of view and in the different training environments (formal, non-formal, informal and local);
  • to acquire basic elements for scientific research, in a comparative key, in the various educational contexts;
  • to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge on the professions of educator, pedagogist, researcher pedagogist in the European contex.

  The expected learning objectives, declined according to the Dublin Descriptors, are the following:

  Knowledge and understanding (DD1)

  • Knowing theories and models in the pedagogical area to interpret educational and training events in a historical-evolutionary and political-economic perspective (of1)

  Processes Knowledge and applied understanding (DD2)

  • Connect the theoretical and methodological contents learned to the interpretation of past, present, future events and processes (of4)

  Autonomy of judgment (DD3)

  • Evaluate the relevance of the theories studied with respect to the situations faced and the actions managed and / or observed (of6)

  Communication skills (DD4)

  • Knowing how to communicate and share the analysis of events starting from the knowledge of one's professional field (of7)

Frontal lessons. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Attendance at lessons, although not compulsory, is strongly recommended due to the particular ways in which the study program is carried out. During the lessons it is possible to verify the learning of the basic concepts of the topics in the program, through exercises of various kinds (study groups, short reports, etc.).

• Historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of comparative research in education;
• the comparison in formal, non-formal and informal education systems;
• the scientific research, in a comparative key, in the various educational contexts;
• the professions of educator and pedagogist in the European framework.

A. General Section

1. N. S. Barbieri, A. Gaudio, G. Zago (eds.), Manuale di educazione comparata, Morcelliana, Brescia 2016 (pp. 206)

B. Special Section

2. S. Lentini, Le prime esperienze di scuola per i detenuti nelle prigioni d'Europa. Note a margine di un opuscolo di Leon Vidal riprodotto e commentato su "Effemeride carceraria", CQIA, 17, 2016 (14 pp). Available at the following link

3. M. Chiaranda (a cura di), Storia comparata dell'educazione. Problemi ed esperienze tra Otto e Novecento, Franco Angeli, Milano 2010, da p. 72 a p. 305 (233 pp.)

C. Lectures

4. F. Olivieri, Le professioni educative tra Italia ed Europa. Percorsi di pedagogia professionale, Il Papavero, 2020 (pp.162)

Erasmus or worker students will be able to arrange alternative programs with the teacher.

The oral examination of the Comparative Education discipline takes place at the end of the course, according to an official calendar, published on the specific website by DISFOR; the evaluation of the final interview, by the commission, will take into account, overall, the following general indicators of judgment:

-       - thematic breadth and organicity of the discussion;

-        -  specialist lexical correctness;

-         -  level of in-depth study and theoretical connection skills;

-         -  ability to refer knowledge to the specific contexts / areas of intervention of the educator

Note: the verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, should the conditions require it.

Historical notes, theoretical and methodological foundations of Comparative Education;

Critical analysis of the "case studies";

The educational professions in the European framework.