Pedagogia generale e prospettive interculturali

The program of the course intends to involve various areas of general education starting preliminarily from a definition of the discipline, from its field of action, to arrive at intercultural education, including the definitions of politics as active participation, analyzing the phases crossed by civic education in Italy from Washburne, to Aldo Moro up to the regulations of the 21st century, including the l. 92/2019. The course then aims to focus on the relationship between pedagogy and ecology to try to understand the importance of education in sustainability and attention to environmental policies. A key point will be the analysis of the meanings of the education-instruction-training constructs, while another important node is constituted by intercultural pedagogy as a fundamental discipline in the contemporary world, linked to the education of otherness and the importance of differences from a perspective of peaceful coexistence. One of the areas of discussion with the students will be to understand the importance of intercultural pedagogy and intercultural education as tools of emancipation in a transitive perspective and of dialogic openness. The course deals with some issues of contemporary multicultural societies, with particular reference to the contexts of education and school. The areas addressed will be: historical and recent migrations; elements of intercultural teaching; participatory citizenship also thanks to the use of museums, libraries, websites and historical sites as possible paths for the interaction between different groups that live together in the same portion of the territory. In-depth elements will be possible interventions by the students themselves with the sharing of topics related to cultural complexity, and other scholars, or possibly interviews and dialogues with immigrant pupils and parents and not present in educational contexts, in order to develop individual reflection on the issues of interculture.
The course will develop according to a programmed path between the themes present in the texts, the in-depth contents and the laboratory activities that will involve students for 12 hours on shared themes and analyzed in detail.

General education and intercultural perspectives

- Analysis and meanings of the concepts of education, teaching and training

- Analysis and understanding of the theory of formation in the pedagogical debate;

- Synthesis of the problem of the identity of education;

- Training as a pedagogical category: historical analysis, problematic issues and recent perspectives;

- Think about education today. Problematic, diversity and emergency in training;

- The new frontiers of education today;

- Intervention paths of formal, non-formal and informal training agencies;

- Educational emergencies between school, family and society;

- Trying to make people aware of the question of the subject as a person situated in the complexity and changeability of social contexts

- Education in globalization era and the new frontiers of training;

- The question of new subjects to be trained in multicultural / intercultural processes

- Training and development of new media;

- The question of democracy in a pedagogical perspective through the analysis of different education forms: democracy, citizenship, person dimensions;

- The new Bildung designed for the full humanization of human beings in anthropological, social and political contexts in the direction of new horizons of democracy / and still not fully accomplished on a planetary level;

- Meanings and models of the new citizenship;

- Intercultural practices in education and training processes

- The interpersonal approach between social and educational operators

- Mulè P., I Processi formativi, le nuove frontiere dell’educazione e la democrazia. Questioni pedagogiche, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce 2014

- Annino A., La cittadinanza attiva nella ricerca educativa, Ragazzi In volo, Catania 2012

- Annino A., La cittadinanza planetaria nell’ottica della pedagogia critica, Anicia, Roma 2013

- La scuola di Barbiana, Lettera a una professoressa, Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, Firenze 2010