15579 - Intercultural Pedagogy

Academic Year 2012/2013

Learning outcomes

Students will broaden their knowledge and skills in order to analyze and understand cultural and social changes in a multicultural society. This introduction will help the students understand which processes lie behind the development of foreign children's identity. It will also train on how to deal with issues related to children and foreign families' reception in school contexts in the light of intercultural pedagogy and its methodology.

Course contents

The course aims to introduce students to an examination of the following topics:

-Multiculturality and Interculturality

-Stereotypes, prejudices and racism

- Processes which lie behind the development of foreign children and teenagers' identity

- Educational patterns and learning methods

-Curricular contexts and relationships with families of immigrants

-Intercultural projects in extra-curricular situations

Readings/Bibliography

Texts, choose according to your address

Kindergarten

  1. Genovese A., Per una pedagogia interculturale. Dalla stereotipia dei pregiudizi all'impegno dell'incontro, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2003.
  2. Bolognesi I., Insieme per crescere. Scuola dell'infanzia e dialgo interculturale, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2013.

Primary school

1. Genovese A., Per una pedagogia interculturale. Dalla stereotipia dei pregiudizi all'impegno dell'incontro, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2003.

2. Bolognesi I., Di Rienzo A.,Io non sono proprio straniero. Dalle parole dei bambini alla progettualità interculturale, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2007.

Teaching methods

Lectures and group work

Assessment methods

Writtenexam

Teaching tools

Film

Office hours

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