Teaching Workshop: Know Yourself: a Philosophical, Psychological and Pedagogical Reflection On Human Temperaments

A.Y. 2019/2020
3
Max ECTS
20
Overall hours
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The professionalizing laboratory offers to the students tools to learn to identify and understand their own temperament, in such a way as to be able to interact adequately with people who have their or other temperaments. This competence will be useful overall to those who, in the future, will manage, coordinate and lead groups (school classes, teamworks, human resources etc.).
Expected learning outcomes
The workshop aims to develop the following skills:

Critical thinking skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will display a sufficiently independent critical approach in selecting and interpreting the notions that are most relevant their area of study and to the broader socio-cultural context in which they operate

Communication skills:
By the end of the workshop:
- students will be able to effectively communicate the acquired knowledge and disseminate it to the general public;
- student will have developed basic IT skills concerning knowledge preservation and transfer.

Learning skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will have developed the learning skills required to continue their studies in keeping with their own research interests. In order to meet this objective, students will also develop relevant skills in the independent interpretation of sources and in the use of basic IT tool for bibliographic research.
Single course

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Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course will focus three issues:
a) the ancient Greak roots of "know thysef": the doctrine of Elements from the pre-Socrates to Aristotle and the elaboration of the Hippocratic medical school on human temperaments;
b) the pedagogical enhancement of this knowledge in the following centuries: Brunetto Latini, Immanuel Kant, Rudolf Steiner, the characterology school of the twentieth century;
c) the psychological researches of Gustav Jung, with particular reference to his theory of psychological types.
Prerequisites for admission
Prerequisites for admission
No prior knowledge required
Teaching methods
Teaching methods
Frontal lesson
Debate and discussion
Group work
Teaching Resources
G. COLLI, La sapienza greca I-III, Milano Adelphi, 1977-80
ARISTOTELE, La generazione e la corruzione, Mimesis Edizioni 2019
IPPOCRATE, Corpus hippocraticum, Utet Torino 1965
I. KANT, Antropologia dal punto di vista pragmatico, Torino 2010
R. STEINER, Il segreto dei temperamenti, Milano 2013
G. JUNG, Tipi psicologici, Torino 2011
Assessment methods and Criteria
Assessment methods and criteria
The audit consists in the evaluation of a collective report presented in the classroom and delivered in a written document.
Attendance is mandatory. The teaching laboratory attributes 3CFU
- University credits: 3
Humanities workshops: 20 hours
Professor: Vaccani Mauro
Shifts:
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Professor: Vaccani Mauro
Professor(s)