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The course explores key theoretical issues that concern contemporary research in children’s literature, as well as a review of major literary reading theories, with the aim of establishing a theoretical framework that enables the critical analysis and interpretation of literary texts within educational contexts. Main areas of study include: content and definitions of children’s literature: theory and criticism; forms and genres of children’s literature; cross-over literature; issues of ideology and censorship; reading and the reader in modern temporary literary theory; contemporary methods of literary text analysis and interpretation; the relationship between interpretation and literature; aesthetics of production – aesthetics of reception – reader-response criticism; orality and literacy; play, literature, and literary reading; individuality and sociability of reading; literary reception and education; intertextuality and its manifestations; character, setting, plot; stereotype theory and imagology.
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:
Theory of Education: History and theory of the education system
School Theory: History and theory of school organization
Media Theory: Historical and theoretical approaches to communication and information media
Media Didactics: Theory of the planned use of media to achieve pedagogical aims and objectives (teaching media, digital media, audiovisual media)
Media Education: Familiarity with the use of media
Media Science: Understanding of media operations and of the technical, organizational, legal, economic, political, and social conditions shaping them
Research on the Function and Impact of Media: Analysis of producers’ intentions and production types; examination of semantic systems used across media; assessment of the impact of media use at personal, systemic, and societal levels
Final Module: Presentation of postgraduate research and synthesis papers on:
Education Theory
School Theory
Media Theory
Communication Theory
Instructional functions of media
Audiovisual Education (literacy, competence, proficiency in audiovisual media; integration in school subjects, curricula, teachers’ guides, and textbooks)
Digital Education (digital literacy, competence, ICT proficiency; integration in school subjects, curricula, teachers’ guides, and textbooks)
Media Research (research approaches; demographic, quantitative, and qualitative aspects of media use—print, electronic, audiovisual, and ICT—and their impact)
Alternative pedagogical uses, management, and thematization of media and their products
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.
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