PSICOLOGIA DELL'EDUCAZIONE E DELLO SVILUPPO CON LABORATORIO

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year - Curriculum Educatore nei servizi per l'infanzia

Learning Objectives

• EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

  The course aims to address the central themes of Educational and Developmental Psychology with a focus from early childhood to adolescence, taking into account the role played by the main educational agencies. In addition to the main theories that allow to understand the different developmental phases of individual lifespan, space will be given to the study of creativity through the examination of theoretical and empirical contributions with particular attention to the school context. The family environment will be treated by deepening its various psychological dimensions, in order to highlight possible strategies of social support to parenting. From a methodological point of view, it will be deepened the observation of child behavior as a fundamental method of approach to the development, which is preparatory to any following evaluations and application plans. Additional materials provided by the teacher will allow to increase the mastery of these topics in the specific perspective of the curriculum chosen by the students. At the end of the course, therefore, it will be necessary to know the concepts of Educational and Developmental Psychology in order to implement them in the professional practice.

• LAB OF FIRST CHILDHOOD PSYCHOLOGY (0-3 YEARS)

  The laboratory aims to address the Psychology of Early Childhood through a practical and experiential approach. The methodology of scientific observation will be deepened in operational terms so that it can be applied to the study of play in the first years of life. At the end of the laboratory, therefore, it will be necessary to master observation as an empirical mean to collect data on childhood play, seen as an activity that signals the progression of cognitive-emotional-behavioral development.

Course Structure

• EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

  The course will be taught through lectures with the aid of slides and videos. In case of blended and/or whole online teaching, the course contents exposed in this Syllabus will not be modified.

• LAB OF FIRST CHILDHOOD PSYCHOLOGY (0-3 YEARS)

  The laboratory will be carried out exclusively in presence, with a preference for practical and experiential learning. Should the epidemiological situation force the use of a mixed modality and/or entirely online, the contents of the laboratory outlined in this Syllabus will not be affected.

Detailed Course Content

• EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  1. Educational and Developmental Psychology: history, aims and methods.
  2. Motor, perceptual, mnestic, cognitive, metacognitive, personological, psychosexual, social, linguistic-communicative and moral development.
  3. The psychological dimensions of parenting: motherhood and fatherhood. Representation of the filial Self. Values priorities in Schwartz's perspective. Perceived support and parental stress. Parenting when different cultures are compared. Motherhood and fatherhood in families with children with disabilities.
  4. Creativity in developmental age, the factorialist and associationist perspectives, thinking styles, tools for measuring divergent thinking and creative personality, field research on creativity.
  5. Techniques for observing child behavior.

Textbook Information

• EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  1. Berti A. E., Bombi A. S., Corso di psicologia dello sviluppo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 4a Ediz., 2018.
  2. De Caroli M. E., Sagone E., Maternità e paternità. Punti di vista a confronto sulla genitorialità, Bonanno Editore, Acireale-Roma, 2011.
  3. De Caroli M. E., Pensare, essere, fare… creativamente, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2009.
  4. Baumgartner E., L'osservazione del comportamento infantile. Teorie e strumenti, Carocci, Roma, 2a Edizione, 2017.
  5. Additional material given by the teacher.
• LAB OF FIRST CHILDHOOD PSYCHOLOGY (0-3 YEARS)

  1. Baumgartner E., Il gioco dei bambini, Carocci, 2016.