DIFFERENCE AND EDUCATION

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
DIFFERENZA E TRAIETTORIE FORMATIVE
Course code
FM0514 (AF:444357 AR:292792)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
M-PED/01
Period
2nd Term
Course year
2
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The time of complexity and planetary interdependence opens up new horizons of reflection, all equally oriented towards building an idea of citizenship that escapes both abstract cosmopolitanism and short-sighted internationalism. It is in this horizon of meaning, which expands individual and collective responsibilities, that it becomes crucial to start a pedagogical reflection on the sense of universalism starting from the nuclear category of difference. The course, that falls within the supplementary training activities of the Master's Degree Course in Philosophical Sciences, aimed at analyzing and addressing critical situations attributable to globalization making use of the contribution of pedagogical skills and aims, in particular, to achieve the following objectives: highlight the specificity and role of pedagogy in building new spaces for meeting and dialogue; bring the attention of students to the anthropological sustainability of certain social behaviors; critically analyze the phenomenology of the differences that characterize the subjects of training (gender, individual, social or cultural); eviscerate the problems related to the social perception of diversity; propose a reinterpretation of the difference from an ecological perspective as a value and as a resource.
Knowledge and understanding
- Know and understand the fundamental problems related to planetary complexity
- Know and understand the meaning of the crucial questions posed to education by the multicultural configuration of the complex society
- Know and understand the biological and historical-cultural matrix of difference
- Know and understand the phenomenology of differences
- Know and understand the meaning of planetary citizenship
- Know and understand the meaning of deep ecology
- Know and understand the pedagogy / sustainability link

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- Knowing how to analyze the needs of the educational context with reference to gender and ethnicity issues
- Knowing how to design multidisciplinary educational paths oriented towards the respect and enhancement of differences
- Knowing how to promote a culture of prevention in a longlife learning perspective

Autonomy of judgment
- Know how to analyze case studies taking into account the complex issues related to them
- Know how to analyze the same situation from multiple interpretative perspectives

Communication skills
- Know how to communicate the results of exercises and group activities carried out during the lessons to colleagues
- Knowing how to manage the difference of views and opinions during a comparison regarding the proposed topics or the choices to be made

Learning ability
- Know how to manage self-directed processes, both in traditional learning situations and in flipped mode, through which students transform their mental abilities into skills related to activities and practiced in this specific context

Knowledge of the general frameworks of contemporary history and of the social problems that characterize it, acquired through the basic teachings of the three-year period.
- Contemponeity and complexity
- The biological roots of the concept of difference
- Historical review of diversity’s evolution
- The phenomenology of differences (gender, individual, social, cultural)
- From the Cartesian (unity / diversity) approach to the dialogic one (unitas multiplex)
- The ecological paradigm
- Social sustainability
- Planetary education and citizenship
- Design for competences
- The "spaces" of encounter and dialogue
FOR STUDENTS OF LABOR, SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP, INTERCULTURALISM
A. Muschitiello (2019). La dimensione educativa nella assistenza sociale. Franco Angeli.

FOR STUDENTS OF PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES
E. Morin (2020). I sette saperi necessari all'educazione del futuro. Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Materials provided by the teacher.

The verification of the learning results will take place through an oral test, which will aim to ascertain the mastery of the topics covered, the presentation ability and the critical approach. In particular, the discussion will be divided into two moments, one dedicated to the verification of the reference texts and one to that of the creative path drawn up by the student and previously agreed with the teacher. Both will be evaluated out of fifteen: the final mark will be determined by the sum of the two partial marks.

Concerning grading (how the marks will be awarded):
Scores in the 18-22 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- sufficient knowledge and ability to apply understanding concerning the examination materials;
- sufficient originality and accuracy of the project;
- sufficient communication skills, especially in relation to the use of language specific to education.

Scores in band 23-26 will be awarded in the presence of:
- fair knowledge and ability to apply understanding concerning the examination materials;
- discrete originality and accuracy of the project;
- fair communication skills, especially in relation to the use of language specific to education
Scores in the 27-30 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- good or excellent knowledge and ability to apply understanding concerning examination materials
- good or excellent originality and accuracy of the project
- fully appropriate communication skills, especially concerning the use of language specific to education.
Honours will be awarded for knowledge and ability to apply understanding concerning the syllabus, judgement and communication skills programme, judgement and communication skills, excellent.
The course is frontal and uses the approach known as "Partially Flipped Learning", which allows you to recover, enhance and integrate student-centered pedagogical models and laboratory and collaborative teaching methodologies, all equally aimed at optimizing the time resource and promote the personalization and self-regulation of learning with a view to achieving the student's full autonomy. It will be delivered in web-enhanced mode with the support of the University Moodle platform, on which in-depth materials (articles, videos, interviews) and self-assessment materials will be made available.
Italian
Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion

Ca' Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.
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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 23/07/2024