22910176 - INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

The course allows to acquire: a) theoretical knowledge related to education and socialization of children from 0 to 6 years with attention to individual and intercultural differences; b) intervention skills aimed at promoting social inclusion and developing the prevention of exclusion and discrimination.

Through the study of Intercultural Education the student will be able to achieve the following educational objectives:
Knowledge and understanding:
 knowledge and critical understanding of the epistemological foundations of the discipline, of the main currents of thought and of the historical and social dimensions of the educational models and of the policies of the processes of social inclusion

Applying knowledge and understanding:
 Understand the specificity of educational situations by analyzing them from different points of view (social, cultural, etc.) so as to adopt appropriate educational practices;
 apply intercultural education and mediation techniques;
Making judgements:
 awareness of the ethical and formative responsibility connected to the exercise of the educational function and the consequent duties towards children, families, the institution and the territory;
 aptitude to read and interpret the needs and behavior of children and families in the light of contemporary social contexts;

Communication skills:
 ability to listen to and understand the needs expressed by children in the care, education and socialization activities and ability to await and recognize their eventual manifestation;
 ability to recognize and promote relational and communicative skills (narration, verbal and non-verbal languages) of girls and children in care, education, socialization and play;

Learning skills:
 ability to observe the contexts and to reflect critically on the dynamics that characterize them; ability to access scientific literature by identifying reliable sources;
 awareness of the importance of learning from the comparison with operators and experts with the same professional profile and with the other figures operating in the sector.
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Programme

IDENTIFY THE KEY FACTORS THAT DETERMINE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION.
KNOWING THE STATISTICS ON IMMIGRATION IN ITALY.
COMPARING DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF "CULTURAL DIFFERENCE".
UNDERSTANDING THE LINKS BETWEEN MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION.
INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
THE THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL FIELD OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION.
THE CULTURAL MEDIATION.
THE DISCIPLINES OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION.
GLOBALIZATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF MIGRATION FLOWS.
IMMIGRATION IN ITALY AND EUROPE.
EMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION AND SOCIO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY.


Core Documentation

FIORUCCI M., PINTO MINERVA F., PORTERA A. (a cura di), Gli alfabeti dell’intercultura, ETS, Pisa 2017 (saranno oggetto d’esame i saggi indicati in basso; il volume è disponibile anche in versione e-book);
FIORUCCI M., Educazione, formazione e pedagogia in prospettiva interculturale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2020
SILVA C., Intercultura e cura educativa nel nido e nella scuola dell’infanzia, Edizioni Junior, Bergamo

FIORUCCI M., PINTO MINERVA F., PORTERA A. (a cura di), Gli alfabeti dell’intercultura,
ETS, Pisa 2017
Le parti oggetto d’esame saranno le seguenti:
Introduzione. Le parole e il confronto sono importanti Massimiliano Fiorucci, Franca Pinto
Minerva, Agostino Portera
 A come Accoglienza Raffaella Biagioli;
 Appartenenza, appartenenze Paola Dusi
 Contesti eterogenei Davide Zoletto
 Convivenza Veronica Riccardi
 Cultura, intercultura, transcultura Ivana Padoan
 Diaspore Giuseppe Burgio
 Didattica dei personaggi ponte Vinicio Ongini
 Discriminazioni Silvio Premoli, Stefano Pasta
 Educazione alla giustizia sociale Massimiliano Tarozzi
 Educazione alla pace Silvia Guetta
 Genere, etnia e identità Simonetta Ulivieri
 Integrazione. Il concetto di integrazione in ambito pedagogico Ivana Bolognesi
 Minoranze e intercultura: migrazioni, genere, diritti umani Tiziana Chiappelli
 Minori stranieri non accompagnati e richiedenti asilo Luca Agostinetto
 Narrazioni decentrate Elena Zizioli
 Parole che includono. L’italiano per (non essere) stranieri Graziella Favaro
 Razzismi Milena Santerini
 Rifugiati Marco Catarci
 Rom e Sinti Massimiliano Fiorucci
 Shock culturale, migrazioni, resilienza Alessandro Vaccarelli
 Stereotipi e pregiudizi Federico Zannoni
 Appello per l’educazione interculturale

Type of delivery of the course

LESSONS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Attendance

OPTIONAL

Type of evaluation

The final exam will be oral and will take place through questions related to all parts of the program.