TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
GRAZIA ARENA
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the
end of the course, will demonstrate:
- knowledge and understanding of the principals conceptual, epistemological and
educational nodes related to the teaching of Geography in schools;
- the
ability to recognize and analyze the topics studied using various tools, such as photographic images, satellite images
and graphics;
- the ability to
trasform knowledge into fundamental practical skills,
for example: developing a curriculum and designing teaching activities,
choosing a textbook, setting up field lessons, and evaluating learning
processes;
- spatial
analysis skills in order to be able to evaluate and interpret the meaning
of spatial differences and to improve the understanding of the links
between historical-cultural, social and cultural dynamics ;
- the ability to develop independent judgment on the
knowledge acquired and to make a decisions in a responsible and conscious
way;
- the ability to apply service learning: to observ,
discover, understand the territory,
to promote student’s civic skills, relations with the community, local
authorities and the world of work;
- the ability to
put at the service of the community the knowledge
and values acquired by concretizing the territorial education and the “public geography”.
Course Structure
The course will take place through
traditional classroom lectures, in which will be used power point
modules prepared by the lecturer, projection of documentaries, seminars
and educational excursions.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
Modulo
B (3 ECTS)
General, theoretical and practical teaching themes: methods,
tools, spaces, meaningful learning, testing, evaluation of geographical teaching; choice of textbooks, reading and interpretation of geographical maps,
reading and interpretation of data and statistics; CLIL, Cooperative Learning,
Service Learning: school-community and their horizontal relations.
Textbook Information
Modulo
B (3 ECTS)
- DE VECCHIS G., PASQUINELLI
D’ALLEGRA D., PESARESI C., Didattica
della geografia, UTET, Torino, 2020, pp. 3-352 (the following
sections: Chapt. 1, pp. 11- 18; Chapt. 3; Chapt. 6; Chapt. 7, pp. 126-134;
Chapt. 8; Chapt. 9; Chapt. 10; Chapt. 11).
- FIORIN I., Oltre l’aula. La
proposta pedagogica del Service Learning, Mondadori, Milano, 2016, pp. XIV-226.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
