- Motivation: definition and dimensions
- Autobiographical elements and choice of the course of study
- Social worker: comparison on representations, the role of knowledge, relational intelligences
- Communicative efficacy of a written text
Supplementary texts and articles will be provided by teachers during the laboratory.
Learning Objectives
- to foster the awareness of motivational processes which are at the basis of the choice to undertake the training to become social worker
- to support the conscious use of language and writing to an effective communication
- to promote the acquisition of a professional perspective
Prerequisites
no
Teaching Methods
- participated discussion
- students’ storytelling about autobiographical events
- reading of short texts
- viewing of film clips
- exercises/practice of short texts writing
- frontal lessons moments
- individual and group exercises
Further information
mandatory frequency
Type of Assessment
Tasks execution and participation to the activities.
Course program
1. Presentation of the course of study and laboratory
2. Analysis of the motivation construct
3. Storytelling of autobiographical experiences connected to the choice of this course of study
4. Words to stay in the services
5. Reflections about the figure of social worker
6. Language: functions, words’ importance, differences between spoken and written language, how to write an effective written text
7. The role of knowledge and relational intelligences in the social worker’s job, with a specific focus on: emotive intelligence, empathy and emotional contagion