OVERVIEW

The game as a cultural phenomenon and its educational applications

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course students should be able to: 1. plan recreational activities to be offered to children for the 0 - 3 age group; 2. choose the most appropriate games to help achieve the chosen educational goals; 4. propose and conduct games to children appropriately; 5. evaluate gaming activities with children and peers. 6. frame the game in the evolutionary, anthropological and psychoanalytic perspective.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The subject is aimed at developing the game/play based learning

PREREQUISITES

There are no specific requirements

TEACHING METHODS

Methods: collaborative activities; peer learning; PBL 

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

Please, contact me to have articles in English

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

2nd semester

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.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Ask the professor for other information not included in the teaching schedule