ADULT EDUCATION
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year - Curriculum Educatore sociale e di comunita'Learning Objectives
The aims of the discipline are:
to acquire the specific language of the discipline;
to recognize some elements of diachronic development of adult education;
to identify today's epistemological references;
to identify the main research topics;
to identify contexts of action for adult education;
to recognize international guidelines for adult education.
Detailed Course Content
Elements of history of adult education in Europe
From the campains against illiteracy in Italy to the Centers for Lifelong Learning of Adults in Italy
Permanent education and Lifelong learning
Learning in adulthood. Some theories of learning in adulthood
Adult Learning in the workplace. Continuing education
Theories on adulthood
Learning in the city: the model of learning cities
Social inclusion: the pedagogy of the oppressed
Textbook Information
Alberici, M., Imparare sempre nella società della conoscenza, Mondadori, Milano, 2002, pp. 1-160
Freire, P., Pedagogy of the oppressed, Continuum, London- New York, 2007
Longworth, N., Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities. Lifelong Learning and Local Government, Routledge, London and New York, 2006