LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course, students should be able to: plan playful educational activities, adapting them to the different children’s ages and school grades; choose games and animation techniques that can foster the selected educational objectives; launching and conducting games appropriately; evaluating recreational and playful activities with children and peers.

TEACHING METHODS

Letio magistralis supported by didactical tools.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Main topics of the course will be:

-Game and training-game;

- gamification  and ludomatetical practices in school (nursery, pre-prymary and compulsory school);

 - new languages games and childhood in contemporary culture

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

For students who attend classes: - A. Bobbio, Pedagogia del gioco e teorie della formazione, La Scuola Brescia 2014 (only some chapters) and some parts of: P. Manuzzi, Pedagogia del gioco e dell’animazione. Riflessioni teoriche e tracce operative, Guerini, Milano 2007

Another volume to be chosen by the student: - G. Rodari, La grammatica della fantasia, Einaudi Ragazzi, 2010 – B.Restelli, Giocare con tatto,  F.Angeli editori, 2014 – G. Bateson, Se questo è un gioco : perché non si può mai dire a qualcuno “gioca”, Cortina, Milano 1993 – A. Dal Lago, P.A.Rovatti, Per gioco piccolo manuale dell’esperienza ludica, Milano 1993 – R. Farnè, Sport e infanzia. Un’esperienza formativa tra gioco e impegno, Franco Angeli, Milano 2010 –A. Bondioli, Gioco e educazione, Franco Angeli, Milano 2002. 

Other informations, for students who do not attend lessons  will be provide in classroom.