B015898 - EDUCATIONAL & SOCIAL POLICY EDUCATION

Classroom is dedicated to the analysis of documents related to educational and social policies and their implementation. Documents, projects, practices will be discussed during the lectures taking into consideration also the comparative perspective

For students attending classes:
1. Sources that will be used and analysed for the project work related to the analysis of policies that each group of students/student will choose.
2. Sources that will be available in the dedicated Moodle Platform

One of the following books:
3. Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy
(Boffo, V., Federighi, P., Torlone, F., FUP, 2015)
4. A Guarantee System for Youth Policies. “One Step Ahead” Towards employment and autonomy (Federighi, P., Torlone, F., FUP, 2013)
5. L'integrazione dei giovani nel mercato del lavoro e la flexicurity: una sfida per l'Europa (Pappadà et sl., Franco Angeli, 2010)

For students not attending classes:
1. Sources that will be available in the dedicated Moodle Platform
2. Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy
(Boffo, V., Federighi, P., Torlone, F., FUP, 2015)
3. A Guarantee System for Youth Policies. “One Step Ahead” Towards employment and autonomy (Federighi, P., Torlone, F., FUP, 2013)
4. L'integrazione dei giovani nel mercato del lavoro e la flexicurity: una sfida per l'Europa (Pappadà et al., Franco Angeli, 2010)

Learning objectives are defined based on the Dublin indicators:
1. Knowledge and understanding: Knowing and understanding the meaning of the strategy and policy, starting at the European dimension of both. Knowledge of the main political documents at European level that define strategical goals in the educational and welfare fields
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to prepare a project work where students will analyse policies they are interested in
3. Making judgements: Being able to critically analise educational and social policies and measures as well as to critically interpret policy documents related to that
4. Communication skills: Being able to communicate the relevant findings in relation to policies and measures and adapt the communication to different contexts and environments
5. Learning skills: Being able to define and set up appropriate method and tools to analyse educational and social policies and measures

Basic education in pedagogy

Face-to-face classrooms that will be conducted in order to promote discussion with students, reflexive and research attitudes. Classrooms will be integrated by ppt presentations, team work activities, preparation of reflexive presentations by students in ppt/xls format.
Alongside the classrooms, in October, November, December 2017 seminars, conferences, laboratories will be organised in order to deepen some specific, relevant issues that are strictly related to the course. 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

To take the final examination it is necessary to attend the Laboratory "Laboratorio di Ricerca Attiva del Lavoro". Registration at http://www.unifi.it/vp-10424-laboratorio-per-la-ricerca-attiva-del-lavoro.html as well as the international events to be hosted by the Department of Sciences of Education and Psychology in October, November, December 2017

Students attending the course will have some ongoing evaluation in forms of laboratory, project works to be prepared individually or in groups of students before the end of the course (at the end of the learning units). Information and materials for these activities will be posted in the Moodle Platform and discussed in classroom. These will be considered for the final evaluation of the course for each student. Students will also need to prepare a project work on one of the topics that will be dealt with in classroom. More information will be provided during lectures. Students will have to use Moodle Platform to share any assignments during the course. The project work will have to deal with the analysis of one or more educational and social policies that are of interest of students. That will be done by analysing relevant political documents (in relation to the definition, implementation, evaluation of policies in terms of results and where feasible of impact).
The project work will be promptly posted in the Moodle platform by students. Information on the format ot be used will be given in classroom.
Oral examination will need to be prepared in a ppt document summarising the work done in the project work.
Project work can be done individually and in group. Contributions by individual students will need to be clearly defined and presented.
Final examination will consist of a summative evaluation and of a selfassessment tool where to analyse the course in relation to the learning objectives of it.

Students not attending the course will have to prepare the project work on single policy measures of their interest.

1. Basic concepts and definitions of Strategy and Policy. Some examples from the EU and regional levels
2. Strategy and policies in some EU documents as for the implementation of education and training policies, description of some policy measures in the education and social fields
3. Introduction to the method of analysis of educational and social policies
4. Method of analysis of educational and social policies
5. An example of policy analysis
6. Sources for the analysis of educational and social policies
7. Some example of sources
8. The preparation of the analitical document of educational and social policies
9. Introductive information on public Call for Proposals
10. Discussion on some projects about the policy analysis