EDUCATION

Course details

Academic Year:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

DEGREE COURSE

Degree Class:

L-19 - Class of first degrees in Education And Formation Sciences

Duration in years:

Credits:

180

Location:

SASSARI

Department:

HISTORY, HUMANITIES AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES

Entry test:

Yes

Type of access:

locally planned access

Compulsory attendance:

Positions available (locally planned access):

250

Course website:

https://dissufdidattica.uniss.it/it/didattica/corsi-di-studio/cds-l-19-s...

Course in brief

The main goal of the three-year Bachelor in Education Sciences is to provide students with a strong cultural education necessary both for working both for continuing study (attendance of master degree). Furthermore, this education is functional to the development of the skills (pedagogical, psychological, philosophical, socio anthropological) needed to work as educator. Graduates can work with persons with disabilities or problems of social inclusion and with Childhood.

List of Courses

Course year: 1 (A.Y. 2018/2019)

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY - 12 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
ENGLISH LANGUAGE - 12 credits - Characterising - Optional
FRENCH LANGUAGE - 12 credits - Characterising - Optional
GENERAL PEDAGOGY - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary - Compulsory
GENERAL SOCIOLOGY - 6 credits - Basic - Compulsory
GERMAN LANGUAGE - 12 credits - Optional
HISTORY OF EDUCATION - 12 credits - Basic - Compulsory
MEDIEVAL HISTORY - 6 credits - Characterising - Optional
MODERN HISTORY - 6 credits - Characterising - Optional
SPANISH LANGUAGE - 12 credits - Optional

Course year: 2 (A.Y. 2019/2020)

ANTHROPOLOGY - 6 credits - Basic - Optional
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY - 12 credits - Basic - Compulsory
EDUCATIONAL DESIGN - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary - Compulsory
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY - 6 credits - Basic - Compulsory
PROGETTAZIONE E VALUTAZIONE EDUCATIVA - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
SOCIAL PEDAGOGY OF MARGINALIZATION AND DEVIANCE - 12 credits - Basic - Compulsory
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION - 6 credits - Basic - Optional
SPECIAL PEDAGOGY - 12 credits - Characterising - Compulsory

Course year: 3 (A.Y. 2020/2021)

CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary - Compulsory
FINAL TEST - 6 credits - Language/Final Examination - Compulsory
METHODOLOGY OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
POLITICA DELL'AMBIENTE E DELLO SVILUPPO - 12 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
THEORETICAL TRAINING - 1 credits - Compulsory
TRAINING - 11 credits - Compulsory

Expected Skills

Pedagogical disciplines

Knowledge and know-how:
Good knowledge of the principal theoretical models, issues, themes and problems in the pedagogical, educational and didactical sector even in a historical perspective. Good knowledge of the principal working methods and operational educational strategies the different sector of intervention.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to discuss and criticize, issues and problems of the pedagogical didactic sector. Ability to decline in practical activities, ability in design the different educational intervention, ability in translating into practical intervention the main theoretical issues studied during the course. Ability to understand and answer to the educational needs at local level, ability to design educational individual projects

Psicological disciplines

Knowledge and know-how:
Good command of the main theories and issues concerning, in general, society and specifically development psychology, education psychology.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to decline into educational interventions the practical and the theoretical knowledge assimilated during the course with particular reference to the motivational, emotional, cognitive and social process.

Didactic disciplines for the integration of the handicapped

Knowledge and know-how:
Knowledge of the main problems related to the cognitive, emotional, psychosocial sphere in an evolutional perspective.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to integrate and use practically theoretical knowledge in the contest of educational rehabilitative interventions.

Social- anthropological disciplines

Knowledge and know-how:
Basics knowledge of the main settings, approach, issues concerning sociology and the main theoretical issues and themes concerning anthropology.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability in reading and understand the main social phenomena, ability to understand the individual and collective behavior in an anthropological way.

Historical Disciplines

Knowledge and know-how:
Basic Knowledge of the main historical and historiographical phenomena particularly referred to modern and contemporary age.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Analytical skills and argumentation of the main phenomena and historical events , also in relation to the educational thought.

Geographical disciplines

Knowledge and know-how:
Basic knowledge of the interconnections between environment and economy, ability to use as key of understanding cognitive theoretical instruments of the political economical geography.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to traduce in the design of educational interventions in the field of the local policy the skills gain during the courses.

Philosophical disciplines

Knowledge and know-how:
Knowledge of the main themes of contemporary philosophy, knowledge of history of the philosophical thought and the history of philosophical historiography.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
ability to analyze and criticize, with particularly focus on the development of the ability to recognize the interdisciplinary connections in the analysis of complex real systems.

Linguistic Skills

Knowledge and know-how:
Good knowledge (oral and writing) of one or more European languages.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Concerning the languages studied during the course, student has to be able to:
A) Understand the scientific literature in the original languages, particularly the contents related to disciplines studied during the course.
B) Using of at least a foreign languages for an effective communication of the contents of disciplines studied during the course.
C) Ability to write emails and letters in a foreign language.
D)Ability to talk in a foreign language.

Informatics Skills

Knowledge and know-how:
Knowledge of relevant IT tools to the treatment of cultural content: electronic word processing, electronic communication, mastery of technical consultation of databases in electronic form, etc.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to use the electronic calculator to elaborate humanistic content (including multimedia) and communicate it using the appropriate l application programs.

Areas for Career Opportunities

Professional educators

Position in a workplace:
they design, elaborate, implement and manage interventions in the area of personal services and education in order to promote the development of individual growth potential and to promote and social integration of people (children and adults).

Position-related skills:
pedagogical, theoretical and practical skills useful to analyze the different dimensions of the main education and training issues. Knowledge of the principles and methods of design, management and evaluation of educational interventions; knowledge of the team work principles and dynamics; capacity for analysis and evaluation of the personal situation (family and social life of the person in a broad sense).

Career opportunities:
Professional educators can work in public and private structures (residential and semi-residential , local structures ext.) which manage and / or deliver educational services for childhood and adolescence; communities for children; parenting support; reintegration pathways for individuals in difficulty and at risk of social exclusion, such as elderly, prisoners and ex-prisoners, foreigners, the disabled; subjects with pathological addictions.

Technician of reintegration and social inclusion

Position in a workplace:
in synergy with the network of local services, the Technician of reintegration and social inclusion realize intervention strategies in order to promote new social and employment opportunities for the reintegration and development of autonomous paths of disadvantaged people. The activities of the technician can be addressed to youth and adults with specific personal difficulties.

Position-related skills:
Knowledge of the main problems linked to education and training; knowledge of the main social trends, knowledge of the migration and inter-cultural phenomena. Ability to analyze practically the need of a person or group, ability to design techniques of intervention in order to prevent discomfort. Good skills in teamwork and group management .

Career opportunities:
Social cooperatives, public and private territorial structures dealing with the reduction and prevention of discomfort at various levels and of the socio - occupational reintegration.
Examples:
-Social professional educator
-Expert in reintegration ex-prisoner
-Intercultural mediator
-Technician of assistance for young people with disabilities
-Technician of social mediation

Educator of early childhood

Position in a workplace:
Analysis of childhood individual and collective educational needs. Educational design and planning in order to help children to develop his potential, even in synergy with the families and eventually supporting parents.

Position-related skills:
Knowledge and understanding of the childhood condition in the contemporary societies and in the different phases of the grow path. Knowledge of the main models of pedagogical and didactical interventions. Practical skills useful to manage concretely the educational action in the contest of childhood services

Career opportunities:
Nursery and structures for early childhood.
Examples:
- In charge to the children with educational functions
- Assistant of creative workshops for children
- Assistant for childhood communities

Tourist animator and assimilated professions

Position in a workplace:
design, elaborate and manage interventions of animation and socialization for the hosts of tourist structures. They work in toy libraries, game rooms ex. in order to promote sociability, sharing and well being of people of different age

Position-related skills:
pedagogical, theoretical and practical skills of analysis of the main education and training issues in their different dimensions, Knowledge of the principles and methods of animation, management and evaluation of educational interventions in the contexts of leisure; interpersonal skills and knowledge of group dynamics and the team work principles; ability to analyze the personal differences of those involved.

Career opportunities:

Expert in care of the active elderly

Position in a workplace:
work in synergy whit the network of local services to elaborate common strategies to promote new interventions in the field of the care of elderly. Particularly they promote new social, cultural and animations activities in order to give to the active elderly new opportunities of work and to develop autonomous path in an perspective of long life learning.

Position-related skills:
Good knowledge of the basic issues concerning andragogy and management of the elderly, good applied knowledge in the definition of the elderly needs, in the technical design of intervention, technique of working group and management of groups.

Career opportunities:
social cooperatives, public and private local structure working in the field of the care of elderly.
Examples: professional social educator, expert in assistance to actives elderly, expert in re insertion of retired.

Access requirements

In order to be admitted to the course is suppose to possess a bachelor or an equivalent level of study. Students have to have a good basic knowledge concerning the course. The access to the course will be restricted to the students whose pass a multiple choice and open questions test. The exam is aimed to verify problem solving attitudes, communications skills, ability to read and criticize test, good skills in logical reasoning, thematic knowledge concerning the course.

Study Programme Reference Persons

Reference Professors:

Tutors:

Fees

Fees are governed by a single set of rules applicable to all courses, as articulated in the

Regolamento Carriere of the University of Sassari (page 11) and in Annex 5.2 thereof

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