B024425 - SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL & INSTITUTIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING

Italian

Training as a relational process, its institutional organization, its design and implementation techniques, its character as a the main channel for inclusion in the current late modern social and economic citizenship.

Attending students
Slides, handouts, documentary and audiovisual materials, essays and articles from books and scientific reviews selected and made available by the teacher;

Not Attending Students:
Compulsory books.:
1) Anna Teselli (a cura di), “Formazione professionale e politiche attive del lavoro. Misure, carriere, esiti in Italia”, Roma: Carocci, 2016.
2) Gira Rosamarì Simoncini, “La certificazione delle competenze: definizione e inquadramento giuridico”, Working Paper n. 4, 2016, scaricabile all’indirizzo http://www.bollettinoadapt.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp_4_2016_simoncini.pdf

. plus a book to be chosen among the following:
a) Luigi Burroni, “Capitalismi a confronto. Istituzioni e regolazione dell’economia nei Paesi europei”, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016
b) Antonella Morlini (a cura di), “Intraprendere nella complessità. Strategie di cambiamento nelle organizzazioni”, Roma: Carocci, 2016
c) Maurizio Ferrera, “Rotta di collisione. Euro contro Welfare?”, Bari: Laterza, 2016
d) Pietro Ichino, “Il lavoro ritrovato. Come la riforma sta abbattendo i muri tra i garantiti, i precari e gli esclusi”, Milano: Mondadori, 2015
e) Associazione SMILE (a cura di), “Formazione continua in Italia e in Europa. Sistemi e forma di finanziamento”, Roma: Ediesse, 2013

The course aims - through its practical articulation in three monthly modules, each corresponding to the attainment of n. 4 CFU - to provide students of sociological bases (general and specialized), required to analyze vocational training as a relational process of transmission of theoretical and practical knowledge needed today not only to improve the individual employability, the business competitiveness and the development of the territories in which the firms operate but also the self-determination power of subjects, their psycho-physical and relational well-being, the quality of life of local societies in which they operate.
Vocational training - in its increasing integration with the educational system - is thus regarded as one of the main instruments for inclusion in circuits of active citizenship (social, economic, political and cultural), and is analyzed - in a comparative perspective with the main international experiences - from the point of view of its institutional organization, in its wider role as a multiplier of sustainable development based on the creation, dissemination and application of skills capable of "doing" work and socializing, and finally from the perspective of the different characteristics (of content , technical and pedagogical) that it must have in relation to particular occupations for which it is designed.
Considering these more general objectives of knowledge and understanding, the course foresees:
1. a first module dedicated to the presentation of the main thought schools that animate - in an integrated and connected manner - the current debate in General Sociology, Sociology of Work and Organizations and in Management Sciences;
2. a second module aiming a] to the deepening and the use of concepts such as "professionality" (abilities, expertise, skills, knowledge), "occupations", "employment", "employability", "work", "quality of work" , "human resources", "management", "vocational needs" on both demand and supply side of labor, b] to the presentation, exemplification, guided simulation of the main business needs analytical techniques, as well as those for the construction of skills assessments and for the planning / organization / implementing training and occupational integration courses;
3. a third more practical module that - already set since the last phase of the second - consists of work groups aiming to the preparation of an integrated vocational training program: choice of a territory, analysis of its local labor markets, methods of identification of its professional needs, analysis of available institutional instruments (funding sources, reference training agencies etc.), intervention design, selection of monitoring and measuring techniques of short- and long-term results. The aim is therefore to familiarize students with the training practices, make them able to mastering their technical language, to provide them with the essential skills (learning skills) eventually to operate autonomously in a field like this.

Basic knowledge of General Sociology and Sociology of Work and Organizations. Nevertheless, the essential concepts will be the subject of the first lessons of the first module.

Attending students: having regard to the learning objectives and in order of the final assessment, the classroom work will be very important, with frontal lessons based on the discussion of the topics discussed. Some of them will be carried out by professional trainers and experts of the current forms of social marginality and fragility with which an increasing number of new jobs in the fields of assistance, education and empowerment of the person Is now faced. They Audiovisual materials and ICT platforms will be used for finding both demographic and employment data (on labour markets and active labour markets policies) at Italian, European and International levels. Finally, in eLearning mode (Moodle, Dropbox), bibliographic materials and individual exercises will be made available to students. The third module will take place largely in the form of work groups.

Not Attending Students: individual study of the bibliography at the base of the course and teacher support in the weekly consulting hours and by appointment.

TO PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION: ATTENDING STUDENTS ARE WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN AT LEAST TWO THIRDS OF THE LESSONS IN EACH MODULE.

Weekly Consulting Hours: Friday, from 11 am to 1 pm, School of Humanities and Sciences of Education, Laura street 48, Florence, 2nd Floor, Lab.6.

Teacher contacts: filippo.buccarelli@uifi.it; filippo.buccarelli@gmail.com; Cell. +39 329 9091677.

a) Two intermediate two-hours tests - one at the end of the first module, the other at the end of the second - consisting of the submission of about 10 closed questions and two open-ended questions, and regarding the materials provided by the teacher and the insights made during classroom work. The results will be returned within fifteen days;
b) Plenary Presentation - during the third module and in the form of slide - of training projects by the members of each working group, and - in the final verbalization - brief conversation on the entire work of the individual student.

Not Attending Students:
final oral examination, based on questions aiming to the evaluation of the learning degree of theoretical keys, conceptual tools and research results presented in the reference bibliography, as well as the student interpretation capacity and his ability of analysis and thematic connecting.

Main issues of the course:

1) Elements of General Sociology and Sociology of Work and Organizations:
Sociological approach to the training and educational process; organizational models of production and services; transformations of labour markets; work, occupations, jobs and employment quality;

2) Professionality, Training System, learning models, combined school and work:
Professionality, its analytical dimensions and its transformations; passive and active labour markets policies in Italian, European and international comparative perspective; Italian and European legislative framework; technical design of training interventions

3) Making training:
Social and economic citizenship and welfare models; social and work inclusion; good practices in Italy and Europe; flexibility, social security, education and professional training strategies.