Sciences and Teaching of Natural Systems

Educational goals:  to know and understand topics and problems within the study area of mathematical, physical and natural science didactics;  to learn to see, recognize and appreciate the connections that city objects and places have with sciences and with their story;  to experience, through a first-hand example, diversified and active methods of teaching-learning, where body and movement in space are tools of knowledge too;  to appreciate the real operability connected to the thinking and planning active teaching materials;  to apply the didactic-pedagogical knowledge in realizing educational projects;  to make the students feel responsible for their knowledge co-construction. Acquired knowledge:  to recognize the effect of the knowledge, also a scientific one, of city objects and places;  to experience a reading of scientific texts (direct texts of scientists or of science history or of epistemology), even asking questions regarding science's participation in the history of an era, in a society's culture and history, and in problems of intercultural kind and type;  to know and understand the methodological and didactic aspects of the experiences and activities had during the course, with reference to the scientific topics addressed. At the end of the course, the student will have an advanced knowledge of research aspects in science areas, such as the passages from a description to the next schematization, quantification and research of the causes of a phenomenon observed. The student will also have acquired knowledge on an historical epistemological plan within the science area [Dublin Descriptor No. 1]. The skills acquired will be about a greater ability in working in group, in making questions with a clear and correct wording, in thinking of one's learning and mental difficulties and uncertainties, in analysing the educational aspects from the point of view of several disciplines involved in educational and training actions. The student will have added ways of use of his/her body and sensorial abilities among the knowledge tools [Dublin Descriptor No. 2]. Acquired cross proficiency is about critical and judgmental abilities strengthened by a participation to reflection and laboratory activities, as well as about the ability of asking questions and use a circumstantial-kind method [Dublin Descriptor No. 3]. Course's halfway activities and final ones under the form of "Science stand" organized by the students autonomously or in group and presented to recipients specialised or not will allow to use explanatory skills, and to choose relevant questions, materials and problems, also on the recipients' age basis, and to apply skills of following evaluation of the proposed actions in a multidisciplinary viewpoint [Dublin Descriptor No. 4]. The student will have reached meta-reflection skills about his/her own attitude and others' toward new situations and topics regarding scientific disciplines, as well as uncertainties and difficulties in understanding, so as the student will be better equipped to continue autonomously his/her study during the whole life, and to examine in depth the scientific topics and those of educational planning; he/she will also know how to critically face, with a complexity viewpoint, materials relative to scientific disciplines [Dublin Descriptor No. 5]. Learning results - Skills acquired:  students who pass the exam are able to create, plan and evaluate interventions and educational projects through museum visits and in meaningful anthropic and natural spaces, and to select and reject pieces of information concerning the topics studied in formal and informal contexts.