INTERCULTURAL AND CITIZENSHIP PEDAGOGY WITH LABORATORY

Module INTERCULTURAL AND CITIZENSHIP PEDAGOGY

The course aims to develop pedagogical knowledge and skills aimed at deepening the concepts of difference, democracy, active citizenship, and participation in a complex and multicultural society. The future teacher is, first and foremost, a citizen living in a context characterized by rapid and constant change and the coexistence of cultures, with the resulting challenges of integration and inclusion. He or she has the delicate task of educating young people and the very young to deal with diversity. The course also focuses on the importance of education in sustainability, cultural heritage, and peaceful coexistence through interreligious dialogue, to guide comprehensive and effective educational programming for the future contemporary citizen. The concepts of education in legality, personal responsibility, and training in the digital world and the media in general will also be addressed, which require a variety of skills and a profound synergy between schools, families, and the local community to fully implement the provisions not only of international regulations but also of Law 92/2019 on Civic Education. From a pedagogical perspective, one of the primary objectives of the Course will be to develop and cultivate critical thinking and independent thinking to counter prejudice, various forms of racism, instrumental representations, and the "selective" use of the past to legitimize present choices, monocultural paradigms, and patterns. A key aspect of this will be the analysis of the meanings and constructs of instruction, education, and training, participatory and truly democratic citizenship, prejudice, and racism. Another important aspect will be intercultural pedagogy as a fundamental discipline in contemporary times, establishing the following key concepts:

multiculturalism, differences, identity, integration, complexity, prejudice, racism, pluralism, and interculturality;

the cultural nature of development and learning: the concepts of culture and development, cultural identity and gender, inculturation and acculturation, and interreligious dialogue from an interdisciplinary perspective;

the concept of difference and the construction of the image of the foreigner and the processes of categorization; Prejudice and stereotypes in adults and children through documents and narrated experiences

Ability to analyze and reflect on issues and themes related to intercultural education: difference, uniqueness, integration, inclusion, languages, art forms, equality, equity, rights.

By the end of the course, students will have developed the ability to critically grasp the connections between social issues and the intercultural educational approach; an awareness of the various narratives of culture and the impact these representations have on our way of being in the world and in relationships; the ability to critically interpret contemporary complexity and models of intercultural competence; the ability to consciously use specific terms related to the intercultural educational approach; basic intercultural skills, such as awareness of one's own communication style; and listening skills to manage relationships with students, their parents, and colleagues more consciously and effectively. As indicated by the Dublin Descriptors, the course focuses specifically on:

- Knowledge and understanding (DD1)

- Applied knowledge and understanding (DD2)

- Making independent judgments (DD3)

- Communication skills (DD4)

- Learning skills (DD5)

• Annino A., L’educazione al civismo nella società contemporanea. Prospettive partecipazione intercultura, Pensa MultiMedia, Lecce-Brescia 2022
• Baiutti M., Protocollo di valutazione Intercultura, ETS, Pisa 2019,  alle pagine 53-74, e alle pagine 121-155. Il testo è  disponibile per il download gratuito al seguente link:  https://www.edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n=9788846755896 
• Legge 92/2019 Educazione civica  e "Linee Guida per l'insegnamento dell'Educazione civica 2024". Documento a disposizione sulla piattaforma Studium
• Orientamenti interculturali. idee e proposte per l’integrazione di alunni e alunne provenienti da contesti migratori, a cura dell’Osservatorio nazionale per l’integrazione degli alunni stranieri e l’educazione interculturale, MIUR, Roma marzo 2022. Documento a disposizione sulla piattaforma Studium
• Il programma è il medesimo per frequentanti e non frequentanti, nonché per gli studenti Erasmus. 

Origins of the word "democracy"

- The prevalent pedagogical models in intercultural study

- The question of pedagogical problematicism

- The question of civic education in Italy

- The meanings of multiculturalism