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In the Department of Education Sciences at Roma Tre University is in progress the Master Course titled Moving with childhood from the Pizzigoni Fund to the world space between creativity and adventure is an integral part of the S.M.A.R.T. Project, School as World, Environment, Responsibility, and Territory. The careful Alliance far the Person.
Course Description
The course aims to study and update the Pizzigoni experimental method in pre-school education, making use of the vast documentation available in the Pizzigoni Fund and in the University library system. The course takes place mainly in online, distance learning mode and aims to offer postgraduate training in the field of teacher education in the experimental method, starting with its extension and renewal in contemporary pre-schools. It will be possible to visit the Pizzigoni Fund and to devise ways of extending the method with outdoor education projects. The advanced course includes an experience of an outdoor kindergarten stage, enriched by the study and practice of movement in space. Education in risk perception and overcoming obstacles is understood as the acquisition of environmental knowledge and interaction between the child and nature, for better self-mastery and a proper social position. Active citizenship actions are promoted with the involvement of parents.
Specific educational objectives of the course
– To get to know the documentation present in the Pizzigoni Fund in order to be able to grasp the pedagogical spirit and project it into contemporary education.
– To explore educational activities in line with the pedagogical idea that led to the formulation of the experimental method as a constant opening to the world.
– Designing activities for pre-schools that feed children’s curiosity and invite budding design.
– Reviewing recent good practices on the experimental method in kindergarten.
– Experiencing adventure and creativity in outdoor environments where the perception of risk becomes education in responsibility.
– Involve parents in outdoor activities to support and enhance their educational responsibility.
– Devise innovative preschool programmes that meet the recommendations of Goal 4 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda on sustainability.
– Open an international debate on shared educational objectives for pre-schools, with the possibility of an online link with significant pedagogical realities.
This is the link to the University of Roma Tre’s page on the Master Course
“Moving with childhood from Fondo Pizzigoni to the world space between creativity and adventure. ”
“FISR 2020 – Special Integrative Fund for Research.”
“S.M.A.R.T. – Scuola Mondo tra Ambiente Responsabilità e Territorio. L’alleanza che “si-cura” della Persona.”