Programme

The module covers the following topics:

– Educational and training institutions in Italy: the Constitution of the Italian Republic and education and training policies; structural problems of the system.
– The structure of the education and training system (ISCED classification) and education across the life course.
– School: the education of the citizen and equal educational opportunities.
– Education in the system of social interventions and services: the constitutional principles (Articles 2, 3, 30, 31, 32, 38) and framework Law 328/2000; educators in the welfare system.
– Training and work: trades, professions and jobs; initial vocational training; apprenticeship and traineeship; continuing training.
– Adult education.
The e-tivity of the module asks groups to collectively re-elaborate the educational autobiographies of their members, reading them through the categories of the module (institutions, educational relationships, times and places of learning).

Prerequisiti

Good knowledge of general history. Full knowledge and awareness of the linguistic norms of the standard language of instruction in its formal register and of its logical, syntactic and argumentative structures. Adequate knowledge, at least at upper secondary school level, of the Constitution of the Italian Republic and of the main legal structures of social life in our country and in the European Union, and in particular of the main features of the welfare state.

Core Documentation

– R. M. Postiglione, Pedagogia e situazione paidetica. Strutture elementari, istituzioni e sistemi, Anicia, Rome 2025 («Uomini e pensiero», 18; ISBN 978-88-6709-909-2).
– Constitution of the Italian Republic; Law no. 328 of 8 November 2000, framework law for the implementation of the integrated system of social interventions and services.
– Video lectures, slides and module materials on the EduNext platform.

Attendance

Attendance at in-person activities is not compulsory but strongly recommended. The e-tivities are compulsory and take place entirely online, on the platform. They are designed to prepare students for a full understanding of the study materials and for the ability to use and apply the concepts studied. They serve a formative assessment function: completing them is compulsory, but their outcome is not recorded for assessment or inspection purposes (it is clearly in students' interest to complete them with the utmost commitment). They will be explicitly referred to in the exam, and carrying them out collaboratively certainly improves the effectiveness of study. It is therefore highly desirable that they be carried out in groups, though this is in no way compulsory.

Type of evaluation

The exam is a computer-based written test on the EduNext platform, held at the Department's Piazza Telematica. It consists of a closed-ended test of 60 to 80 multiple-choice questions, each with only one correct answer, covering the modules of the course. There are no open-ended questions and no penalty for wrong answers. The mark is expressed out of 30. Registration for the exam is compulsory and must be completed online in the Student Portal by the deadline set for each exam session. When attendance is high, students are divided into shifts, announced via GOMP to their institutional e-mail address. Results are communicated by e-mail; students may reject the mark within one week of notification, otherwise the mark is recorded. Students who fail may retake the exam in the same session. Compensatory tools: requests must be submitted to the lecturers and tutors at least 15 days before the exam, agreed with the Tutoring Service for students with disabilities and SLD (tutoratodisabili.sdf@uniroma3.it) and sent with the Service and the Department contact person, Prof. Amalia Lavinia Rizzo (amalia.rizzo@uniroma3.it), in copy. Any concept maps must be submitted to the lecturers at least 15 days before the exam.