EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Stampa
Enrollment year
2018/2019
Academic year
2018/2019
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-PED/04 (EXPERIMENTAL PEDAGOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
PHILOSOPHY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
2nd semester (25/02/2019 - 05/06/2019)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
SAVIO DONATELLA (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
Even if there are no particular prerequisites, for a proficient
participation to the lessons students are expected to have a cultural
attitude of willingness to listen, grasp and actively elaborate on the
theoretic and practical issues posed by pedagogical analysis.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide students with basic skills and knowledge about: theoretical and methodological aspects of educational empirical research; analysis of teaching-learning processes for the implementation of participatory, active, inclusive educational and didatict approaches.
Course contents
The course is divided into three parts.
The first part will present the basic themes that characterize the empirical research in the pedagogical field, discussing in particular the relationship between scientific investigation and educational practice with reference to the thought of John Dewey (1929).
In the second part, the interaction in the class group will be proposed as an object of investigation providing theoretical and methodological tools, starting from symbolic interactionism and the theory of human systems, to recognize the class group as a symbolic-cultural reality and as a human system; analyze the symbolic-cultural aspects that influence interaction in the classroom and the assumptions that regulate communication exchanges; promoting interactive exchanges for the realization of participatory, active, inclusive didactict and educational approaches.
The third part will consist of exercises: we will analyze interactive situations of a class group with an ad hoc grid.
Teaching methods

Frontal lessons and exercises.
Reccomended or required readings
Attending students

-Dewey J. (1929), Le fonti di una scienza dell’educazione, Firenze, La Nuova Italia
-Bondioli A. (2003), Fare ricerca nella scuola: problemi e metodologie, in Ferrari M. (a cura di), Insegnare riflettendo, Milano, Franco Angeli, pp. 21-35.
-G. Fele, I. Paoletti (2003), L’interazione in classe, Il Mulino (paragrafi 4 e 5 del capitolo 1, pp. 39-59)
-Delamont S., (1976), L’interazione in classe, Bologna, Zanichelli 1979 (capitoli 2-3-4 pp. 20-90)
-Watzlawick P., Beavin J. H., Jackson D.D. (1967), Pragmatica della Comunicazione Umana, Roma, Astrolabio, 1971 (capitoli 2 – 3, pp. 41-111).
Slides will be presented each lesson.

Non- attending students
Students not attending, must bring the following text to the examination in addition to the texts indicated for attending students:
- Mantovani S. (1998), Problemi, possibilità e limiti della ricerca sul campo in educazione, in Mantovani S. (a cura di) La ricerca sul campo in educazione. I metodi qualitativi, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, pp. 2-34.
Assessment methods
The exam will be oral
Indicators:
-knowledge of the basic texts of the exam programme;
-ability to explain, autonomously, the silver thread that links some of the
points in the basic texts, coherently with the exam's programme;
-ability to critically analyse and personally re-elaborate the issue
proposed by the course;
-clear and logically coherent presentation;
-lexical accuracy.
Further information
All students, those frequenting and non, are permitted to use the material presented during the
lessons (texts, slides, files for exercises) entering with their individual credentials of Ateneo in Kiro, thereby subscribing to the course of Methodology of educational research and downloading the files published therein.
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