B029223 - PEDAGOGY OF WORK

Italian and English. 2 credits will be delivered in English.

This course deals with learning action’ theories. They aim at explaining and potentially orienting the definition and improvement of policy making
processes as they relate to learning within organisations. It will be focused on a framework through which it is possible to create a “learning device” starting from ongoing researches.

For students attending classes:
1) Federighi, P. (a cura di), "Educazione in età adulta: ricerche, politiche, luoghi e professioni", Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018.
2) Federighi, P., Adult and Continuing Education in Europe: Pathways for a skill growth governance, Bruxelles, European Commission, 2013.
3) Rogers C.R., "Un modo di essere. I più recenti pensieri dell'autore su una concezione di vita centrata-sulla-persona", Firenze, Martinelli, 1993.
4) Mezirow, J., "La teoria dell' apprendimento trasformativo. Imparare a pensare come un adulto", Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2016.

For students not attending classes:
1) Federighi (a cura di), Educazione in età adulta: ricerche, politiche, luoghi e professioni (FUP, 2018).
2) Federighi, P., Adult and Continuing Education in Europe: Pathways for a skill growth governance, Bruxelles, European Commission, 2013.
3) De Sanctis, F., "Educazione in Età adulta, Firenze, la Nuova Italia, 1975.
4) Rogers C.R., "Un modo di essere. I più recenti pensieri dell'autore su una concezione di vita centrata-sulla-persona", Firenze, Martinelli, 1993.
5) Mezirow, J., "La teoria dell' apprendimento trasformativo. Imparare a pensare come un adulto", Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2016.

For foreign students attending classes:
1) Federighi, P., Adult and Continuing Education in Europe: using public policy to secure a growth in skills, Bruxelles, European Commission.
2) Federighi, Boffo, Torlone, Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy (FUP, 2015).
3) Boffo V., Han, S., Melacarne, C. (a cura di), Adult Education Perspectives in a Changing World: from the Learning to the Job Competences, FORM@RE, 19 (2), 2019 (English Articles only).

The objectives are defined on the basis of the Dublin descriptors:
1) Knowledge and understanding: To know tools and devices supporting the definition and implementation of institutional and organisational learning actions; To know the paradigm of “learning action” in its wide and multidimensional dimensions
2) Applying knowledge and understanding: to be aware of, define and evaluate the usage of specific devices and tools;
3) Making judgments: to know how to plan and design a learning action;
4) Communication skills: to know how to communicate a learning action that needs to be adapted to organizational contexts;
5) Ability to learn (learning skills): to know how to construct autonomously the design of a series of learning actions in the workplaces that students know, have lived in as to choose the most appropriate learning device for their own development and learning.

Basic education in pedagogy. Main principles related to the General Pedagogy and Adult Learning & Education.

Face-to-face classrooms that will be conducted in order to promote discussion with students, reflexive and research attitudes. Visiting Professors/Researchers from other international academies will be involved in lectures as well. Classrooms will be integrated by ppt presentations, team work activities, preparation of reflexive presentations by students in ppt/xls format, pedagogical laboratory aimed at arranging the autobiography.
Alongside the classrooms, seminars, conferences, laboratories will be organised in order to deepen some specific, relevant issues that are strictly related to the course. Exercises, papers will be then discussed in plenary sessions in classrooms in an interactive and critical way. Paper and the way discussion will be conducted will be part of the final examination. Moreover the Laboratory supporting students in being prepared to search for a job will be taken and will need to be attended. Information is available at http://www.unifi.it/vp-10424-laboratorio-per-la-ricerca-attiva-del-lavoro.html
Students are invited to check the university’ web pages on a regular basis where all details about the seminars, conferences, laboratories will be stored.

Participation to national and international events in Florence will be part of the course. Events will be taken in Florence on relevant and actual issues in relation both to the contents of the course and to the competences to be developed by students. Moreover the Laboratory supporting students in being prepared to search for a job will be taken and will need to be attended. Information is available at http://www.unifi.it/vp-10424-laboratorio-per-la-ricerca-attiva-del-lavoro.html

Examination will be written and oral.

For students attending classes:
there will be a formative (in itinere) evaluation at the end of each of the learning units. These activities will have the form of laboratorial activities. Written works of these laboratories will be stored in the Moodle platforms according to the instructions provided in classroom and will be part of the final evaluation.
To take the final examination students will be required to prepare a project work to be arranged within the course. Details on how to prepare it will be explained during the course. The project work will have to be included in the moodle platform five days before the oral examination.
In the view of the oral examination students will be required to prepare a .ppt presentation summarising their project work. The project work and the ppt presentation can be done individually or in team.
The final examination will have the form of summative evaluation. Moreover students will be given a self-assessment tool based on the learning objectives of the course.

In addition to the Volumes listed students not attending classes will have to present the wirtten project work to be agreed with the Professor by three months before the oral examination.

1. Introduction
2. Definitions 2.1. Organisations 2.2. Work pedagogy
3. Growth within organisations 3.1. Factors of growth within organisations; 3.2 The Employee Value Proposition
4. Action learning theory; 4.1. Intentional learning actions (informal, artificial, embedded ones) 4.2. Macro/meso/micro dimensions of learning actions within organisations 4.3. Distribution of employees in relation to their educational conditions
5. Self-directed learning and learning outcomes being the results of educational processes that take place within organisations
6. Strategies and policies for people’s growth within organisations; 6.1. Some fields of study: the Social Economy