LEARNING OUTCOMES

a) Providing a theoretical and methodological framework of reference for the study of developmental processes; b) promoting knowledge of psychological development, of the processes and mechanisms underlying it, of the causes determining it.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

As for the specific objectives relating to prepare teachers for preschool, the course aims to make to acquire knowledge and skills related to the main stages of development in preschool and the prerequisites for learning.

As for the specific objectives relating to prepare teachers for primary school, the course aims the students acquire knowledge and skills related to the main stages of the development of pre-school and school age, in order to facilitate understanding of school-age learning processes, useful for teaching and educational planning. The course is also aimed to provide an in-depth picture of the main processes involved in school learning.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding: Students must acquire adequate knowledge and an effective ability to understand psychological development from birth to adolescence.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Students must be able to apply the acquired knowledge and to understand any problematic situations for learning
Making judgments: Students must be able to use, on a conceptual and operational level, in school contexts the acquired knowledge.
Communication skills: Students must acquire the technical language to communicate clearly and unambiguously with specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
Learning skills: Students must develop adequate learning skills that allow them to continue to deepen independently the main topics of the discipline, especially in the working contexts in which they will operate.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures and group exercises following the Team Based Learning  will be provided.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The main stages of development will be discussed, with particular reference to the development of perceptual skills, cognitive, linguistic and relational in infancy and childhood. A reflection on the educational challenges to aspects of the development will be carried out. Monographic part of the course will consist of two texts specifically aimed at deepening the preparation for primary school and preschool: the key features that characterize the learning process are presented in the textbook "Processi cognitivi e apprendimento scolastico", and the preschool prerequisites for learning is included in the text "Apprendere alla scuola dell'infanzia. Lo sviluppo dei prerequisiti".

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Attending and non-attending students have to prepare for the exam in these texts:

J. W. Santrock, Psicologia, sviluppo (4^ edizione), Milano, McGraw-Hill Education, 2021.
G.F. Amoretti, S. Morra, M.C. Usai  e  P. Viterbori (2020). Processi cognitivi e apprendimento scolastico. Carocci, Roma.
P. Bonifacci e V. Tobia, Apprendere alla scuola dell'infanzia. Lo sviluppo dei prerequisiti. Carocci, Roma, 2017.