36
General and Social Pedagogy
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Overview
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Syllabus
Course Objectives
1 – (Knowledge and Understanding)
The course aims to provide the theoretical and practical foundations necessary to analyze the phenomenon of domestic violence, an ambivalent place capable of transforming from a privileged place of care to a scene of suffering and sometimes death. The course's objective is to provide students with specific knowledge of intra-family pathologies that, if not adequately treated, can degenerate into homicidal madness.
The complexity of the phenomenon of domestic violence will be analyzed from pedagogical, social, criminological, and literary perspectives. The course includes the study of the different manifestations of aggressiveness, including through literary exegesis of fury, delirium, jealousy, and the split ego, present in Greek tragedy and other literary classics.
2 – (Applying Knowledge and Understanding)
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to apply their acquired knowledge and recognize social and cultural representations of domestic violence and gender-based violence in order to analyze these phenomena and design preventative or post-treatment educational interventions for individuals or family groups in various contexts, both formal and informal.
3 – (Making judgments)
Students must be able to appropriately recognize, with critical thinking and reflexivity, the main critical issues present in human relationships, whether familial or social.
4 – (Communication skills)
Students will be able to describe, using technical terminology, the main reflective and methodological issues regarding educational interventions in formal and informal work contexts involving preschool and school-aged children, as well as adults involved in negative or violent relationships.
5 – (Learning skills)
Students will also acquire self-assessment skills with respect to the use of theoretical constructs developed on the topic of violence as an object of research in the human sciences.
Course Prerequisites
The course provides knowledge of the epistemological foundations of general pedagogy.
Teaching Methods
The teaching includes not only frontal lessons (also carried out through the use of slides, exemplary models, in-depth bibliographical materials, short films and contributions by experts) but also presentations of works created by the students, the who, from a student-centered perspective, will be involved in discussions on the topics covered and invited to discuss in the classroom.
The use of filmography is envisaged to encourage self-reflection and a better understanding of the proposed contents.
It will always be possible to contact the teacher for clarifications, indications on possible in-depth analysis of topics of particular interest and dedicated meetings.
The following activities will also be offered:
- participatory readings;
- exercises aimed at analyzing and re-elaborating the personal and group educational experience;
- exercises on real cases and situations of educational work in intervention contexts.
Assessment Methods
Learning outcomes will be assessed through an oral exam on the topics covered during the course and the recommended books.
The assessment and related score will be measured on range from 18 to 30.
The assessment will be based on the following criteria:
• the ability to develop, using appropriate language, an independent discussion on topics covered in the books;
• the ability to critically argue around the conceptual cores highlighted in the books;
• the ability to connect what has been studied to one's professional and personal experience.
Texts
R. Marzullo, Abissi e disarmonie Analisi pedagogica delle relazioni familiari disfunzionali, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2022.
Contents
The teaching activity focuses, from a multidisciplinary perspective, on the phenomenon of domestic violence, which has always been an ambivalent place, which can simultaneously be the privileged site of care, or the scene of suffering, or even death. The focus of the study is on dysfunctional family relationships, the communication deficits that give rise to them, as well as the consequences of emotional deprivation, with particular reference to cognitive development and the emotional-affective dimension of childhood development. The analysis also draws on the evocative narrative device provided by classical culture and Greek tragedy to signify and interpret the archetypes of domestic violence, which through myth become a permanent structure of humanity and a functional tool for understanding the antisocial tendencies constantly present throughout human history.The emerging picture is of a family that ceases to be a "protective and caring container" and becomes a dangerous place of neglect and irresponsibility, eventually becoming a violent and destructive space. The exegesis of the impulses and passions of human relationships begins with an in-depth reflection on dysfunctional intrafamily dynamics, suggesting the need for educational intervention to heal bonds in conflict-ridden families, from the most typical pathologies, such as families with separated parents, to the most serious and irreparable conflicts marked by crime and domestic violence. The aim is to systematize educational intervention, even in the most complex and irreconcilable conflicts, from the perspective of responsible educational care, almost as a "civil act" that the community of educational professionals must express, especially with regard to the bonds that develop in the most fragile and at-risk social contexts.
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The use of filmography is envisaged to encourage self-reflection and a better understanding of the proposed contents.