SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- FRANCESCO SCHINO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- SPS/08
Training objectives
- At the end of the training, the student: identifies the specificity of sociology of education in understanding educational processes; applies this knowledge to critically problematize the complex relationship between education and society; identifies the organizational structures of contemporary school and formulates assessments on different answers to the question of inclusiveness; recognizes the cogency of the equality-inequality dilemma in educational processes and thereupon considers COVID-19 effects on the Italian education system
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 PART
Sociology of education as a science of institutions and training processes
Topics in the study of education/society relationship
Sociology as a specific way of observing education
Socialization and education
Socialization models
Inequalities and differences in educational processes
SPECIAL PART
The school’s own functions
Education as an asset and the "weaker brackets" issue.
COVID-19 impact on the Italian school-education system and inconsistencies brought out by the crisis. Didactic methods
- According to COVID-19 emergency-related provisions, teaching will be provided from remote. Over the period envisaged in the academic calendar, lectures will be uploaded and made available to students on University of Ferrara’s dedicated online platform, at the beginning of each week. Through the working week scheduled for frontal teaching, conversely, online meetings will be held at the students’ request, in order to supply clarification/insights concerning the aforesaid lectures.
Learning assessment procedures
- Learning test will consist of an oral exam for each student. Only where the number of students is elevated, a written test with open questions will be provided.
Interview will focus on checking knowledge level and understanding of course contents, besides the capability of interpretation and critical argumentation.
For attending students:
Interview will focus on all topics debated in video-lessons, according to reference the parts of text-books
For non-attending students:
Interview will focus on all topics debated in video-lessons, according to both reference texts Reference texts
- ATTENDING STUDENTS
• Besozzi E., Società, cultura, educazione, Carocci Editore, Roma, 2017.
Parte prima: intera,
Parte seconda: parr. 4., 4.1, 4.2, 5., 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7.
Parte terza: parr. 7., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3)
• Migliorati L., Un sociologo nella Zona Rossa. Rischio, paura, morte e creatività ai tempi di Covid-19, Franco Angeli, Open Acess, Milano, 2020
Introduzione
Capitolo 3
Capitolo 4
Capitolo 5
NON ATTENDING STUDENTS
• Besozzi E., Società, cultura, educazione, Carocci Editore, Roma, 2017.
• Migliorati L., Un sociologo nella Zona Rossa. Rischio, paura, morte e creatività ai tempi di Covid-19, Franco Angeli, Open Acess, Milano, 2020
