OVERVIEW

The game as a cultural phenomenon and its educational applications

AIMS AND CONTENT

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.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

30/09.

Class schedule

METHODOLOGY OF PLAY AND ANIMATION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam

Students with SpLD, disability or other special educational needs are recommended to contact the professor at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and exam methods which, according to the course’s objectives, take into account the modalities individual learning and provide suitable compensatory tools

For international students, texts and articles in English are available on request. The exam can be taken in English in the prescribed manner

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral examination about the (pedagogical) conceptuals frame of the game (and play) as cultural phenomena.

Exam schedule