9795413 - DIDATTICA DELLA GEOGRAFIA

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Special objectives:

Module B (3 ECTS)

The course is aimed at the acquisition of conceptual, epistemological and educational nodes related to the teaching of Geography. as well as the acquisition of fundamental practical skills, for example: consulting the basic geographical maps, processing data statistics, interpreting landscapes observed in reality or in other iconographic documentation, how to develop a curriculum and design teaching activities, how to choose a textbook, develop and enhance the specific lexicon, set up field lessons, and evaluate learning processes.

Module A (3 ECTS)

Moreover, the course aims to promote 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 course will take place through traditional classroom lectures, in which will be used power point prepared by the lecturer, projection of documentaries, seminars and educational excursions.

Modulo B (CFU 3)

 General, theoretical and practical teaching themes: methods, tools, spaces, verifications, evaluation of geographical teaching. Reading and interpretation of maps, reading and interpretation of data and statistics, research laboratories through cooperative learning.

Modulo A (CFU 3)

Regional geography themes, analysis of the regional "fractures" of the Mediterranean geopolitical System and understanding of the differences of social, cultural, demographic and economic elements. Sicilian landscape: the evolution of the territory and the change in the landscape. Literary sources as a tool for geography teaching: description of Sicily through tales, essays and news events.

Modulo B (CFU 3)

• DE VECCHIS G., PASQUINELLI D’ALLEGRA D., PESARESI C., Didattica della geografia, UTET, Torino, 2020, pp.3-352.

Modulo A (CFU 3)

• S. CANNIZZARO, G.L. CORINTO, C.M. PORTO, Il Mediterraneo. Dalla frattura regionale al processo d’integrazione, Pàtron, Bologna, 2009, Introduzione e cap. 1 (pp. 1-72).
• S. CANNIZZARO, G. L. CORINTO, Paesaggio in Sicilia. Dialogo territoriale ed episodi paesaggistici, Pàtron, Bologna, 2013 (pp. 1-109).
• G. SAVATTERI, Non c’è più la Sicilia di una volta, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2017, Introduzione e 5 saggi a scelta.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.