COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

Comparative education has a relatively recent disciplinary tradition, and the purpose of which is the identification and analysis, in a comparative key, of specific problems and educational issues. In this perspective, it is configured as a research discipline that tends to identify new knowledge, of a theoretical and practical nature, through the comparison between two or more educational systems (in use in different countries, in different regions, in different historical periods, in different places of formal and informal education, etc.).

The course aims to the theoretical and methodological foundations of comparative education.

The educational objectives are as follows:

• to define and identify the historical, theoretical and methodological foundations of comparative education;
• to acquire comparative analysis skills, from a historical point of view and in the different training environments (formal, non-formal, informal and local);
• to acquire basic elements for scientific research, in a comparative key, in the various educational contexts;
• to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge on the professions of educator, pedagogist, researcher pedagogist in the European context

Frontal lessons. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of comparative research in education;

the comparison in formal, non-formal and informal education systems;

the scientific research, in a comparative key, in the various educational contexts;

the professions of educator, pedagogist, researcher pedagogist in the European framework.

A. General Section

N. S. Barbieri, A. Gaudio, G. Zago (eds.), Manuale di educazione comparata, Morcelliana, Brescia 2016 (pp. 206)

B. Special Section

S. Lentini, Le prime esperienze di scuola per i detenuti nelle prigioni d'Europa. Note a margine di un opuscolo di Leon Vidal riprodotto e commentato su "Effemeride carceraria", CQIA, 17, 2016 (14 pp). Available at the following link

C. Lectures

P. Orefice, E. Corbi, Le professioni di educatore, pedagogista e pedagogista ricercatore nel quadro europeo, ETS, Pisa 2017 (460 pp.)

Erasmus or worker students will be able to arrange alternative programs with the teacher.