Corso di laurea magistrale in
Programmazione e gestione dei servizi educativi e formativi

The course aims to provide students with the tools to analyze territory from the point of view of territorial values and provides tools to identify its resources, strengths, opportunities, critical points and weaknesses.

The methodology provided allows a complex analysis of the territorial system, connecting human systems and environmental systems. It develops a systemic approach that connects the physical environment, economy, society, culture and politics.

The skills acquired are applicable in the development of projects and socio-educational and training actions, with particular attention to issues related to the relationship between man and the environment, sustainable development, social and economic inequalities and issues related to migration and interculture.

 

 

At the end of the course Students must be able to:

Knowledge and understanding:

- Know the theoretical-methodological foundations of the geographical approach to the study of the territory; the most important issues related to the Anthropocene and the relationship between human communities and the Earth's environment

- Understand the basics of geographic education, including its methods and objectives, in particular with reference to education for sustainable development, citizenship and interculture.

- Have basic knowledge and concepts related to the study of the population (in particular of migration dynamics), of society (in particular of inequalities and social problems), of the economy (in particular to the themes of sustainable local development), of culture ( in particular to cultural diversity and their capitalization) and politics (governance and management of the territory).

Autonomy of judgment

- collect and interpret data deemed useful for determining independent judgments, in particular reflection on social issues and issues related to sustainable development.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:

- Analyze a territorial system and identify resources, strengths, opportunities, critical issues and weaknesses.

- Apply territorial analysis in the development of educational projects, identifying the specific values ​​of a territory in order to contextualize the planning based on the resources, needs and critical situations of the local system.

- Apply the approach of geographic education in the development of educational projects and actions related to social inclusion, personal services, sustainable development (including all the objectives of the 2030 Agent for Sustainable Development), landscape education , to interculture.

Communication skills

- Elaborate and present territorial analyzes and projects based on the methodologies presented in the course.

- Use in specific contexts the specific terminology related to the discipline.

-Organise knowledge and communicate the results of territorial analysis using new information and communication technologies, using images, geo-geographical maps and maps.

Learning ability

- have developed those learning skills that allow them to contextualize and apply the methodologies and ideas of the course in working contexts

 

 

- Territorial education, its theoretical-methodological foundations and its fields of application.

- The methodology for identifying resources and territorial values.

- Territorial analysis through strengths, opportunities, threats and weaknesses.

- Geographical education and landscape education.

- The objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

- The main social and environmental problems of the contemporary world: migration, inequalities, climate change; the role of education in tackling these problems on a global and local scale.

 

The course includes 54 hours of lessons (9 credits) delivered face to face in the classroom.

Where possible, field trips will be organized to present direct observation and investigation methodologies.

 

The oral exam is based on the recommended texts and on the discussion of the exercises carried out during the course. The exam has a duration of about 40 minutes, during which the candidates are assessed against their knowledge of the main concepts and topics covered, communication skills and capacity of articulating and connecting the different topics in a critical manner. Around 5 topics/questions are assessed.

 

Students will be required to prepare themselves on the following books:

- Educare al territorio, educare il territorio. Geografia per la formazione.
Autore: Cristiano Giorda, Matteo Puttilli (a cura di) Edizione: 2015
Casa editrice: Carocci
ISBN: 9788843061716

- Geografia e Antropocene. Uomo, ambiente, educazione.
Autore: Cristiano Giorda (a cura di) Edizione: 2019
Casa editrice: Carocci
ISBN: 9788843098729

And on the following articles and documents:

- Cristiano Giorda, Matteo Puttilli, Educazione al territorio: una metodologia per la formazione geografica, in Cristiano Giorda, Giacomo Zanolin (a cura di), Idee geografiche per educare al mondo, FrancoAngeli Open Access, pp. 19-35, scaricabile liberamente dal link: https://www.francoangeli.it/ricerca/Ricerca_Collana_Libri.aspx?Collana=11787

- Giuseppe Dematteis, Cristiano Giorda, Territorial values and geographical education, J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography, vol. 1, 2, 2013, pp. 17 -; 32, scaricabile liberamente dal sito: http://www.j-reading.org/

- Carta internazione sull'educazione geografica, https://www.aiig.it/carta-internazionale-sulleducazione-geografica/

- Convenzione europea sul paesaggio, https://www.coe.int/it/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/176

- Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, https://unric.org/it/agenda-2030/