Pedagogical Sciences

PATRIZIA SPOSETTI

The course aims to offer knowledge useful both to those interested in developing research activities and to those who intend to work as educators, as coordinators or coordinators, as education officials or managers in field of childcare and educational services.
At the end of the course students:
• have acquired knowledge and understanding that can be traced back to managerial, organizational and educational problems related to the early childhood education sector, in their size and specificity; in-depth theoretical-methodological knowledge of the management, organizational and educational problematic issues related to the early childhood education sector, in their size and specificity; in-depth knowledge of the organizational and educational characteristics of the different types of services for early childhood present in Italy and in Europe (Knowledge and understanding)
• are able to apply knowledge and understanding, with a high degree of professionalism in order to interpret and analyze problems and data relating to the design of the various childcare services that can be activated in different territorial and social realities; analyze and interpret national and regional legislation on the subject; design, conduct and document educational actions; carry out the economic management of a service and recognize the methods of finding resources for its activation and operation; moving within the framework of the relationship with public institutions and the private system for the construction and maintenance of social network systems in the field of educational services; identify yourself in your job role; be able to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy, to integrate into the world of work and professions (Ability to apply knowledge and understanding)
• have gained independent judgment in order to be able to solve problems in various educational and training contexts, emphasizing the various actors and actresses involved in the process; to act reflexively in the course of professional activity; to implement evaluation, self-assessment and self-reflexive mechanisms in the various stages of managing the educational service; (Making judgments)
• have acquired communication skills that allow them to know how to manage, structure and share content inside and outside the educational group; knowing how to manage communication with institutional contacts; know how to take care of communication with the families of children, girls and different subjects who attend the educational service, adapting the communication style to the recipient (Communication skills)

Basic competence of educational research methodology

The course focuses on the studies and reflections on educational competences.
The emphasis is on the role of competences and language in knowledge building processes, in high education contexts in particular aimed at training educational coordinators for educational services. intended for young children and their families.
The setting is typical of practice and action research contexts. Students and students will be engaged in field research that will allow them to deepen the issues related to professional writing with particular reference to educational contexts and high training and to build and use in an expert way detection and analysis tools.

Course Note
Sposetti P., Le scritture professionali in educazione, Nuova Cultura, Roma, 2017.

The course foresees the carrying out of a research on the professional competences of educators in the different phases: construction and administration of the instruments; data analysis; drafting of the research report.

Research report