EDUCATIONAL FUNCTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS
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no specific pre-requisites
The final exam includes an oral exam during which the student must demonstrate not only that he has learned the theoretical notions but also that he has learned the educational operating methods, applying the theories to the practical case
the course has specifically professionalizing objectives, i.e. it intends to provide students with both theoretical and practical tools useful in educational work and intends to solicit a common reflection regarding the functions of the educator in the various care contexts and on the specificity of educational work, thus increasing the awareness of the role of the educator and the tools at his disposal.
The course aims to provide knowledge regarding the most important educational functions, professional contexts, the role and tools available to the educator.
The course is divided into a first theoretical part aimed at in-depth analysis of some tools available to the educator in carrying out his work, specifically observation, narration, biography, interview, fairy tale, observation of the system and of the context (systemic and ecological theory), self-observation, the relationship (attachment theory), the communication. The second part of the course is dedicated to the in-depth study of some specific functions of educational work: conflict management, ecological work understood as the need to observe and evaluate the dynamics and interconnections between individual, environment and system and finally the the importance of the educational role, network and team work through the treatment of concrete cases
The course includes moments of frontal teaching with the use of slides, and practical moments of case discussions and group reflections on concrete experiential situations.the participatory lesson allows sharing, reflection and the acquisition of the specificities of network and team work, making communication circulate.
the teacher expects the students to present the contents learned with a suitable and professional language, and demonstrate that they have understood and internalized the notions, managing to translate them into operational indications, managing to translate the concepts into concrete operations in the various contexts workin, translate concepts into concrete operations in various work contexts, understanding the specificity of the educational role and its functions and methodologies