D90008-2 - PEDAGOGY OF CULTURES

courses
ID:
D90008-2
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
Special Didatics and Pedagogy
Located in:
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Url:
Pedagogical design and managing of educational services for minors/COMUNE Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unirc.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Ciclo Semestrale (01/10/2025 - 05/12/2025)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

1. Educational Objectives

The module aims to:

• Deepen the understanding of culture as a dynamic, relational, and community process.

• Analyze community archives as educational, heritage, and identity tools.

• Provide theoretical and practical skills for the collection, documentation, and enhancement of intangible heritage.

• Study educational practices based on oral tradition, ritual, memory, and intergenerational transmission.

• Offer a methodological framework for field research in minority and traditional communities, with particular focus on the Grecanic area.


Course Prerequisites

knowing how to read

knowing how to understand

knowing how to think


Teaching Methods

4. Teaching Methods

• Lectures.

• Seminars and field activities.


Assessment Methods

. Assessment

Attending Students

• Participation + seminar: 30%

• Possible report on the field lesson: 20%

• Oral exam on the texts: 50%

Non-attending Students

• Oral exam on the three texts: 100%


Texts

3. Testi d’esame

Per studenti frequentanti

Obbligatori:


  1. Laura Marchetti, Sulla tradizione orale. Il mito, il pianto, il canto, Mimesis, 2022.
  2. Uno dei seguenti testi a scelta:
  • La fiaba come cifra dell’identità europea, a cura di L. Marchetti e M. Bray, Treccani, 2024.
  • L’umanità come patrimonio. Complessità e intercultura nelle politiche educative UNESCO, a cura di L. Marchetti, Andrea Pacilli Editore, 2019.
  1. Partecipazione obbligatoria al Seminario del 4 dicembre:
  2. Archivio per il patrimonio immateriale dell’area grecanica (ore 10–17).

Facoltativo:


  • Lezione itinerante nel Comune di Roghudi (3 dicembre).

Per studenti non frequentanti

Obbligatori:


  1. La fiaba come cifra dell’identità europea, a cura di Marchetti & Bray, Treccani 2024.
  2. L. Marchetti, Sulla tradizione orale, Mimesis 2022.
  3. L’umanità come patrimonio, Pacilli 2019.

I non frequentanti possono partecipare al seminario, ma non alla lezione itinerante.


Contents

Course Contents

Module 1 — Pedagogy of Cultures

• Culture, interculturality, transculturality.

• Educating communities and heritage communities.

• UNESCO policies for intangible heritage.

Module 2 — Community Archives

• Definition, functions, case studies.

• Digital archives and participatory archives.

• Narratives, memories, biographies, oral documents.

Module 3 — Oral Tradition and Educational Practices

• Orality as pedagogy.

• Myth, weeping, singing, ritual in popular cultures.

• Storytelling as a means of transmitting knowledge.

Module 4 — Research and Collection Methods

• Participatory observation.

• Educational ethnography.

• Interview, collection, and cataloging techniques.

• The Grecanic area as a territorial laboratory.


More information

Special Activities

Seminar (December 4)

"Archive for the Intangible Heritage of the Grecanic Area" – 10 AM–5 PM

• Theoretical introduction.

• Meeting with tradition bearers.

• Workshop on oral documentation and archive construction.

Traveling lesson – December 3 (optional)

Location: Roghudi / Old Roghudi

Activities: observation, study of the territorial context, meeting with the community, small-scale document collection.

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Main module

METHODS OF EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION IN SERVICES FOR MINORS