B002711 - SOCIAL PEDAGOGY

Italian and english

The course involves the following Training Units: 1. Social Pedagogy and Theory of Human Development; 2. Governance and network system; 3. Methods of Research and Training for sustainable endogenous development, 2CFU of the first Unit will be in english.

P. Orefice, Pedagogia sociale. L'educazione tra saperi e società, B. Mondadori, Milano, 2011;
G. Del Gobbo, P. Orefice, R. Sampson Granera, (a cura di), Potenziale umano e patrimonio territoriale. Per uno sviluppo sostenibile tra saperi locali e saperi globali, Liguori, Napoli, 2010 (selezione di capitoli)
G. Del Gobbo, Solidarietà e sviluppo endogeno sostenibile: lo sguardo pedagogico per riconoscere il valore dei saperi altri in C. Coggi (a cura di), Educazione allo sviluppo sostenibile e alla solidarietà internazionale, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce 2014 (in corso di stampa)
PPT and course report

The objectives are defined on the basis of the Dublin descriptors:
1. Knowledge and understanding : To know and to understand the theoretical framework of complex development, to recognize and to understand the pedagogical perspective;
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: To define and to articulate, in the current historical contexts, human development and networking within it, applying a pedagogical perspective to deal with research and training;
3. Making judgments: being able to analyze research practices and training for endogenous development;
4. Communication skills (communication skills): to know and use the appropriate terminology in the field of sustainable human development
5. Ability to learn (learning skills): knowing how to build an independent in-depth study of specific issues addressed during the course.

Basic Knowledge on General and Social Pedagogy

Lectures integrated with power point presentations, film clips,
photographic material; workshops; experts for presentation of good practices

For attending students the lecture notes of the course enable a deepening of educational texts for the examination and provide a summary of the topics discussed during lessons

For Attending Students the course includes formative evaluation activities at the end of each learning unit. These activities will implemented as workshop. Reports of these activities, uploaded in Moodle according to the indications that will be provided during the lessons, will be part of final evaluation.
For the final exam it is necessary to draw up a report on a research project set within the course and applied on the ground. The report must be uploaded on Moodle five days before the examination. The format of the report will provide during class. For the oral examination, a PowerPoint presentation with a synthesis of the work done, has to be prepared. The reports may be partly a result of a group effort but must always contain a piece of individual work. The final examination will be set up as formative assessment with a self-evaluation form, based on objectives of the course.
For not attending students, in addition to textbooks, the exam will be also with a presentation of a written report agreed with the professor. no less than 3 months before the exam.

Within the national and international political framework characterized by United Nations Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the course will primarily address the concept of development through reference theories and authors, models, official documents and good practices that they will give a critical, complex and multi-dimensional vision related to other concepts such as capability, governance, partnership and sustainability.
The theme of human development will be steady in the problematization of development cooperation and international solidarity policies and strategies aimed at achieving the three core goals of Agenda 2030 - ending poverty, combating inequality and tackling climate change - in view of a holistic vision of development that is attentive to its economic, social and environmental dimensions.
The pedagogical perspective will be the distinctive trait and point of view that will allow to expose and make visible the underlying and transversal educational dimension to development actions: through exemplification of researches, case studies and good practices at national and international level, they will be introduced strategies, methods and techniques for research and intervention in educational and training fields.
In the monographic part, the relationship between Development and Migration will be studied through the theoretical approaches and perspectives on the causes and variables of migration present in the scientific debate of the last sixty years. In addition, the development and international cooperation policies will be analysed in relation to migration policies and the management of the phenomenon between countries of origin and countries of destination. Lastly, field experiences and research projects on migration will be presented, with reference to the educational dimension of development cooperation interventions and policies