Comprendere la complessità dell'educazione degli adulti oggi;

Comprendere la complessità delle donne adulte e degli uomini adulti della nostra contemporaneità;

Sdoganare la parola vecchiaia, o meglio, vecchiaie, con le implicazioni di ciò, a livello di intervento educativo e di cura;

Comprendere dall'interno il ruolo e le funzioni dell'educatore che lavora con gli adulti e i vecchi;

Problematizzare i concetti e le dimensioni di cura e di competenza educativa;

Essere in grado di orientare la relazione di cura in direzione educativa e narrativa.

With this teaching, with a constant and participatory attendance at the lessons we intend to PROMOTE the following learning, in terms of:

Knowledge and understanding of the epistemological status of adult education (EDA) and of the possible critical issues / drifts concerning it, in our contemporaneity; the meaning of educational care and educational relationship; the problematic nature and complexity of the operational concept of educational competence.

Ability to relate differentiated knowledge and models: with particular reference to the almost opposite readings of the eda; to the different, if not even opposite, models of care, eg, technical care and educational care; to the paradigmatic / narrative paradigm in educational and care action with adults and the elderly.

Ability to apply knowledge and models: inherent in the narrative and self-reflective approach.

Understanding the complexity of adult education today;

Understanding the complexity of adult women and adult men of our contemporaneity;

Clear the word old age, or rather, old age, with the implications of this, at the level of educational intervention and care;

Understanding from within the role and functions of the educator who works with adults and the elderly;

Problematizing the concepts and dimensions of care and educational competence;

To be able to orient the care relationship in an educational and narrative direction.