The course provides students with knowledge of authors and main concepts of social pedagogy (education and society, educational and cultural needs, promotion of well-being, prevention of discomfort and educational emergencies, continuous training, association for parenting, interculturalism, anti-racism) with particular reference to early childhood. The course peovides also in-depth information on the main authors of the 900. The different topics covered will be framed in the broader debate on pedagogical knowledge in relation to other disciplinary areas. In the laboratory the students will be involved in activities aimed at integrating theory and practice and between biography and profession also in preparation for the internship experience.

At the end of the course the student:
- will acquire knowledge about the authors and currents of thought relevant in the history of social pedagogy (Greek philosophers, religions and societies, great utopias, militant pedagogies, early childhood educators, etc..) and the problems that characterize the discipline today with particular reference to early childhood (rights and duties, care, respect for diversity, hospitality and relationship, play, support for parenting, biographical thinking);
- acquire basic research and intervention skills in the field of pedagogical and social research (action research). Thanks to the laboratory, students will have the opportunity to retrace their educational experience and to lay the foundations for consciously facing their professional future.