Education

The course is designed to provide students with foundational knowledge and skills in adult learning and counseling. This course introduces students to key concepts of adult learners as well as various learning theories and models to aid in understanding adult development and adult learning. 

Students basically learn by doing, trying out different techniques and approaches for teaching children English, devising their own lesson plans, and presenting these in class. Topics include total physical response, songs, stories, cross-curricular activities, classroom language and textbooks. Theoretical issues are arrived at via the consideration of practical considerations. Activity-based rather than language-based teaching is encouraged. This course aims to explore the characteristics of children, and their needs in the classroom. Students develop basic techniques for teaching children, and practice these techniques in class. Students also develop ideas and materials for teaching children and examine the differences between language-based and activity-based courses.

This course combines formal classes with exploratory field trips. Traditional lectures are used as a space for conveying important concepts and information to students. Formal lectures are also supported by smaller tutorial classes where collaboration, discussion, and group work are employed to facilitate social learning and increase student knowledge and understanding of key ideas. The traditional lectures and tutorials are then enhanced by two unique expeditions into significant coastal and mountainous regions of New South Wales. These bushwalking field trips into The Royal National Park and Blue Mountains give students a chance to experience and be immersed in two distinctive Australian ecosystems.

This introductory course provides an overview of detailed majors in pedagogy as a full-fledged preparation stage for teaching. It explores the overall knowledge of pedagogy as an instrumental knowledge of educational reality issues. Through this, it is expected that students will be able to form an integrated and organic perspective on education and pedagogy. The class focuses on problems discovered by educational philosophy, history, educational sociology, educational anthropology, educational psychology, curriculum, educational evaluation, educational administration, educational engineering, and educational counseling.

This is a graduate level course that is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course focuses on the genesis, development, and evolution of sociology of education. Emphasis is placed on the sociological contribution to the study of institutions and educational processes in the field of education. Special attention is placed on specific knowledge/sociological skills functional to the assessment of the impact of educational interventions in reference to equality and inequality of opportunities in education. A separate section of the course is devoted to how to read and evaluate statistical-sociological data and indicators used in analyzing data pertaining to school systems. The course is divided in two portions. The first portion of the course focuses on the analytical models of educational processes and institutions and on the transition from a school centric to a polycentric model of training. Starting from the definition of the field of study and research in sociology of education and the contributions of various authors (Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Parsons, Simmel, etc.) the following topics are addressed: the relationship between education and society, socialization and theoretical models of reference, social self and theories of identity, equality of opportunities in education, and actors and agencies. The second portion of the course deals with specific issues such as inequalities in education and educational pathways for students who do not have Italian citizenship. The course includes traditional lectures, seminar activities, and in class discussions, as well as PPT presentations, slides, and videos. Assessment is based on a final written exam with essay questions and an oral exam on course materials during which students can discuss an essay on a pre-approved topic related to course materials.

This course introduces the basic theory of education, basic concept of pedagogy, the status of education in Taiwan, and today's major issues related to education. Lecture topics include an introduction to curriculum, the significance of education and connotation, foundation of education, educational reform, access to education, and non-traditional schools. This class includes lectures by professor, class discussions, guest speakers, field data collection, group work, and student reports.

In the past, teaching and learning after middle school was primarily focused on preparation for basic scholastic ability tests. After the 12-year state education promotion, this focus on examinations must be completely reformed, and teaching and learning must be greatly adjusted. School teaching should not only teach students to copy knowledge, but to teach them how to create knowledge and actively learn. This course focuses on teaching and learning and the possibilities under the 12-year state education.