SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- FRANCESCO SCHINO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- SPS/08
Training objectives
- By the end of the course students will:
- know the most widespread theoretical approaches and the related methodological problems concerning the family and childhood studies, with particular regard to the age group between 0 and 3 years.
- know how to report the main issues faced by the Child and Family Studies to a specialist and non-specialist public.
- adopt the basic tools to analyze the complex relationship between early childhood and family-territory with critical awareness guaranteed by the comparison between theoretical aspects and research and / or professional experiences presented throughout all the lectures and in the readings. Prerequisites
- Knowledge of basic theoretical and methodological approaches of general sociology and general pedagogy is desirable, in order to facilitate the learning process
Course programme
- GENERAL SECTION
• Family reflections
• What do we talk about when we talk about family?
The several theoretical approaches.
• Family and generations
• The transition to adulthood and to life as a couple
• The transition to parenthood
• Transnational families
• The childhood sociological study
• The childhood’s structure and the children’s interpretative
reproduction
• Studying children and childhood
• The children’s cultures
• Peer cultures and interpretative reproduction
• Childhood, social and family issues
SPECIAL SECTION
• From family communities to co-housing
• Early childhood in Nomadelfia: a case study Didactic methods
- Lectures will be provided in the scheduled weekly timetable, entirely remotely on web conference, recorded and made available on the platform.
During the latter, students will be directly involved in conducting lessons through personal knowledges/experiences in relation to the topics concerned. Multimedia work-tools will be used in order to display documents, papers and videos. Learning assessment procedures
- Learning test will consist of an oral exam for each student. The written test with open questions will be chosen just in case of many registered students for the exam. Interview will focus on checking knowledge level and understanding of course contents, besides the capability of interpretation and critical argumentation, according to reference text-books for attending students and non-attending students
Reference texts
- ATTENDING STUDENTES
GENERAL SECTION
• From: Saraceno C., Naldini M., Sociologia della famiglia, Il
Mulino, Bologna, Quarta edizione, 2021
refer to contribution of: Introduzione. Discorsi di famiglia;
Cap. I; Cap. II, only 3., Cap. VI
• From: Rossi G., Bramanti D. (a cura di), La famiglia
come intreccio di relazioni, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2015
refer to contributions of: Rossi Giovanna (both of them),
Carrà Elisabetta, Scisci Anna
• From: Corsaro W.A., Colombo M., Aroldi P., Maccarini
Andrea M., Sociologia dell’Infanzia, FrancoAngeli, Milano,
2020
refer to contribution of: Cap. I; Cap. II; Cap. III
only 6. and 9
SPECIAL SECTION
• From: Rossi G., Bramanti D. (a cura di), La famiglia come
intreccio di relazioni, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2015
refer to contribution of: Bramanti Donatella
• Schino F., L’attualità e i limiti della Pedagogia di don Zeno
e la scuola di Nomadelfia. Un’esperienza educativa,
Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Pedagogiche e
Didattiche, Università di Bari, Anno XI, n. 8, Ottobre 2009
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
GENERAL SECTION
• From: Saraceno C., Naldini M., Sociologia della famiglia, Il
Mulino, Bologna, Quarta edizione, 2021
refer to contribution: Introduzione. Discorsi di famiglia;
Cap. I; Cap. II solo 3., Cap. III; Cap. IV 1., 4., 5., 6.;
Cap. VI
• From: Rossi G., Bramanti D. (a cura di), La famiglia come
intreccio di relazioni, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2015
refer to contributions of: Rossi Giovanna (entrambi), Carrà
Elisabetta, Scisci Anna, Meda Stefania Giada
• From: Corsaro W.A., Colombo M., Aroldi P., Maccarini
Andrea M., Sociologia dell’Infanzia, FrancoAngeli, Milano,
2020
refer to: Cap. I; Cap. II; Cap. III only 6 and 9.
SPECIAL SECTION
• From: Rossi G., Bramanti D. (a cura di), La famiglia come
intreccio di relazioni, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2015
refer to contribution of: Bramanti Donatella
• Schino F., L’attualità e i limiti della Pedagogia di don Zeno
e la scuola di Nomadelfia. Un’esperienza educativa,
Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Pedagogiche e
Didattiche, Università di Bari, Anno XI, n. 8, Ottobre 2009
