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General aims. The course aims at providing the students with theories for analyzing groups and educational organizations and with the methodological practices to develop psychosocial interventions in educational organizations. The course will develop across two different modules : the first (1. Cultural psychology of groups and organizations) – is to provide students with knowledge on practices of social, discursive and material interaction in groups and communities of practices and on the analysis of educational organizations. The second one (2. Theory of Situated learning and organizational development) –is to provide students of knowledge on situated learning models, on work practices and competences in groups and educational organizations and on strategies for fostering innovation in educational organizations. The expected learning outcome would be: to know the interpretative framework and the main dimensions of cultural psychology of groups and organizations; to know how to analyze and assess groups and educational organization considering their interactional, communicative and social dimensions; to know the social and formative strategies for the development of groups and educational organizations; to know the epistemological principles and methods for fostering psychosocial interventions on groups and organization. Specific aims. For the students, passing the exam would imply being capable of: 1) Knowing the interpretative framework and the main dimensions of cultural psychology of groups and organizations (Knowledge and understanding); 2) acquiring the ability to analyze empirically the practices of social, discursive and material interaction in groups and communities of practices and the main dimensions of educational organizations; to be able to identify strategies of social and educational intervention to foster organizational innovation; to be able to use, with methodological reflexivity, methods and instrument of situated and qualitative research (ethnographic observations, narrative interviews, analysis of interactions) for analyzing work and organizational practices. (Applying knowledge and understanding). 3) Acquiring the ability to make informed judgments and critical evaluations through the collective assessment of programs of psychosocial intervention in educational organizations and through the practical and methodological affordances acquired during the participation to the Laboratory on Methodology for the analysis of groups and educational organizations (Making judgment); 4) acquiring skills in public speaking through the presentation of the project work’s results and acquiring scientific writing skills through the preparation of a written report at the end of the Laboratory on Methodology for the analysis of groups and educational organizations (that will be evaluated) (Communication skills); 5) acquiring ability to further and autonomous learning related to theoretical, methodological and applicative knowledge on social psychology of groups and organizations, through the different framework, knowledge and competence discussed and evaluated during the course (Learning skills). --