HISTORY OF PEDAGOGY

M-PED/02 - 10 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

LETTERIO TODARO


Learning Objectives

The course aims to develop a general knowledge of the pedagogical debate (theories, models, ideas on education) across the two last Centuries. Particularly,a special focus will be dedicated to the relations between children's care and culture of education in a wide perspective.



Detailed Course Content

The scientific debate and the culture of education between the XIX and the XX Century.

The culture of Positivism and the theories on education.

The 'New Education' movement in the early Twentieth Century.

Tha Active School and the Progressive Education as pedagogical models.

The predominance of the idealistic address in the Italian pedagogical debate at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

The crisis of the modernity and its consequences on the pedagogical debate.

The Sciences of Education within the recent panorama of the Human Sciences.

The educational research in the second half of the Twentieth Century: main areas and developments.

Tha Cultural Revolution of the Sixties and the development of the critical pedagogy.

The rebellion and the culture of 'dissent': the culture of education at the turning point of the Seventies.

Education, Emancipation, Rights in the actual panorama.



Textbook Information

1. - G. CHIOSSO, Novecento Pedagogico, (nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata), Brescia, La Scuola, 2012, (pp. 7-16; pp.23-98; pp.112-148; pp.171-187; pp. 220-268; pp.280-284; pp.297-309; pp.324-335).

2. - H. SPENCER, Educazione intellettuale, morale e fisica, (a cura e con saggio introduttivo di L. TODARO), Roma, Anicia, 2016.

3. - L. TODARO, Sante Giuffrida e il rinnovamento educativo nell'Italia unita, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2014.

4. - M. TOMARCHIO, L. TODARO (a cura di), Spazi formativi, modelli e pratiche di educazione all'aperto nel primo Novecento, Milano, Apogeo Education, 2017 (pp.21-154)

5.- L. TODARO (a cura di), Cultura pedagogica e istanze di emancipazione tra gli anni Sessanta e Settanta del Novecento, Roma, Anicia, 2017




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