Learning objectives
The course aims to promote both theoretical knowledges and methodological skills concerning several organized systems based on the Assesment-Instruction-Education sequence: PSI (Personalized System of Instruction), Portage Program, A.B.A. (Applied Analysis of Behavior). A certification of A.B.A. is now requested by the scholastic policies to teach disabled children in all degrees of the school, and to assist them in the institutions.
Specific attention will be also devoted to the “communication style” that inside the scholastic and institutional settings, is not always shared. Competences of self-management, self-control, problem solving, decision making and autonomy will be also supported.
Prerequisites
Basic topics of general psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology.
Course unit content
The first set of lectures will be devoted to briefely summarise both learning principles and processes. A multiple choice responses test will assess the students’ knowledges of the matter.
Then it will be analysed the variety of the scientific points of view about Education versus Instruction conceptual dialectic.
Our analysis will outlined, in particular, both the technologies and the instruments to assess the individual educational “needs”, to organize subjet single experimental designs underlying the educational trainings, to monitor and evaluate the uotcomes of the intervention.
Full programme
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Bibliography
S. Perini (1997). Psicologia dell’Educazione. Il Mulino, Bologna.
G: Martin e J. Pear (2000). Strategie e tecniche per il cambiamento. McGraw-Hill, Milano.
Almeno 10 articoli su un argomento concordato col docente e pubblicati negli ultimi 10 anni da riviste internazionali indicizzate.
Teaching methods
Lectures using video-records of educational interactions in many natural settings, will be proposed to promote the learning of theoretical knowledges, applied competences and problem solving strategies. Educational experiences will be planned by skilled educational psychologists, and simulation sessions will be realized to make fluent the students’ performances
Assessment methods and criteria
Monitoring sessions will be random realized during the course and the findings recorded on apposite schedules. The final examination will consist of an oral presentation: the student will propose a review in wich he/she will summarise and critically discuss the topics of almost 10 experimental papers published over the last 10 years on scientific literature.
Other information
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