1. Learning Objectives
The course aims to:
• Explore the imagination as a fundamental pedagogical dimension in education.
• Understand the role of the symbolic, the fairy-tale, and the poetic in educational processes.
• Deepen the understanding of the teacher's role and the forms of narrative and affective teaching.
• Value intangible heritage as a tool for emotional, cultural, and intercultural education.
• Provide skills for a pedagogy of care, relationship, and listening.
read, understand, think
Teaching methods
• Lectures.
• Guided discussions.
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5. Assessment
Attending students
• Active participation: 30%
• Oral exam on the texts: 70%
Non-attending students
• Oral exam on all three texts: 100%
3. Testi d’esame
Per studenti frequentanti
Obbligatori:
Per studenti non frequentanti
Obbligatori:
2. Course Content
Module 1 — Imagination, Symbolism, and Education
• Objects of the imagination.
• Pedagogy of storytelling and narration.
• The value of symbols.
Module 2 — Stories of Teachers and Narrative Pedagogies
• Teachers in the educational tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries.
• The dialogical and cooperative dimension in education.
Module 3 — The Fairy Tale as a Pedagogical Tool
• Structures, symbols, archetypes.
• European identity and narrative Mediterranean.
Module 4 — Towards a Pedagogy of the Caress
• Narrative hospitality and pedagogy of the imagination in educational services.
