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General content of the course:
This course intends to examine the basic theories of literary reading while defining a theoretical framework that will permit to formulate propositions concerning literary reception in education.
Course Syllabus:
Children’s literature. Content and Definitions
The course explores fundamental theoretical issues that engage contemporary research in children’s literature. It examines the history and evolution of children’s literature, the main theoretical currents, as well as its forms and genres. The content of the course consists of the following chapters, all related to children’s literature: Content and Definitions. Theory and Criticism. The child as a reader and as a critical reader. L. M. Rosenblatt’s transactional theory and the reader’s role. Issues of ideology and censorship. Intertextuality and its expressions. Character, setting, plot. Cross-over literature. Imagology in relation to children’s literature.
In this particular course, students have the opportunity to get to know theater as a pedagogical tool and as a means of expression, but also as a means of communication and feeling inside and outside the classroom. At the same time, it becomes apparent that theater concerns multiple themes and goals of the educational process: oral language, its relationship with space through movement, textual processing and writing, the cultivation of imagination and individual and collective activation. Among the main objectives of the specific course is for the participants to get to know the pedagogical dimension of the theatrical phenomenon and to get to know the particularities of the elements that make up the art of theater. Also, the structure of the material aims at developing study skills and deepening the literature and research of theater science and application of theoretical knowledge in educational practice. After the successful completion of the course, participants will be able to know various theater genres and the basic principles in theater theory, as well as to perceive the art of theater as a means of education and teaching, as an artistic creation, but also as a social phenomenon.
Pedagogy Information and Communication Media is the discipline of Pedagogy, which focuses on audiovisual and digital individual and social learning processes.
The aim of the course is to present the Educational History of Information and Communication Media and to highlight both, their pedagogical potential and their respective limitations in modern and transforming educational structures as learning or intelligent organisms. Emphasis is placed on outlining the current field of Media and Information Pedagogy and utilizing its interpretative tools to understand the intermediate world for an effective educational intervention with a positive impact both on the operation of the school unit (organization, staff, teaching) and on the promotion of individual learning and the preservation of cultural contents.
The course is structured in eight modules:
The purpose of the course is to understand the distinct image of mathematics and the different
readings of its content in texts intended for education and in literary texts.
1. Introduction to the recognition and readability of Mathematics in educational and literary books
2. Contemporary theoretical approaches to the nature, learning and teaching of school mathematics
3. Methods of analysis of mathematical texts intended for educational materials (school textbooks)
4. Interactions of Mathematics and Literature and their relationship with education
