PEDAGOGY OF PLAY
Stampa
Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic year
2017/2018
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-PED/01 (GENERAL AND SOCIAL PEDAGOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
PHILOSOPHY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)
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 proposes to supply students knowledge about: play, the peculiarities of its nature, its role in the growth and well-being of young children, its complex relationship with education, in particular with childhood education. The students will also be able to learn techniques of observation and analysis of play using ad hoc instruments.
Course contents
Title: The nature of play, its role and its observation in the early childhood education

The course is divided into three parts. In the first part theoretic background which is useful in outlining the nature of play will be presented, bringing to the fore the complexity of its relation with the not-playful reality.
In the second part the delicate relationship between education and play will be faced, with particular reference to the first years of childhood . With this we aim to present theoretical perspectives which underline the importance of play reality for the socio-cognitive and affective growth of the child, thus going deeper into the role that emphatic listening and observation can have for a favourable educative relation to play and therefore for a good growth of the child.
In the third part a tool for observing the symbolic play, that students can test firsthand, will be presented.
Teaching methods
All the professor's lessons aim at favouring student's active participation and interactive dialogue in group work. Exercises on material presented by the teacher are provided.
Reccomended or required readings
Callois R. (1967), I giochi e gli uomini: la maschera e la vertigine, trad.it. Bompiani, Milano, 1981 (capitoli 1, 2, 3)
Vygotsky L. (1966), “Il ruolo del gioco nello sviluppo mentale del bambino”, trad.it. in Bruner J.S., Jolly A., Sylva K. (a cura di), Il gioco, vol. IV, Armando, Roma, pp. 657-678.

Bettheleim B. (1987), Un genitore quasi perfetto, trad.it. Feltrinelli, Milano, 1987.
(Parte seconda, capitoli 14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22)

Bondioli A., Savio D. (1994), Osservare il gioco di finzione, Edizioni Junior, Bergamo (Parte seconda, capitoli: 3-4-5-6).

Savio D. (2011), “A promuovere il gioco si impara: percorsi e strategie per formare educatori ludici”, in Venera A.M. (a cura di), Garantire il diritto al gioco, Edizioni Junior, Bergamo, pp. 143-155.


Slides will be presented each lesson.
Assessment methods
The exam will be oral.
For students frequenting, the exam will be based on a personalised study course which will be agreed along the way (exercises are foreseen) with reference to above mentioned texts.
For students not frequenting, the exam will be based on the above mentioned texts.
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 (slides, files for exercises) entering with their individual credentials of Ateneo in Kiro, thereby subscribing to the course on Pedagogy of Play and downloading the files published therein.
For information please contact the tutor:
Dott.ssa Claudia Lichene claudia.lichene01@univeristadipavia.it
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