This teaching is proposed for increasing or encouraging the comprehension of:
- the relationship between the didactic and personal culture of the teacher and the flexibility of his/fer didactic action;
- the connection between didactic actions and actions of the media;
- the centrality of the child in the didactic actions chosen by the teacher, as dictated by the “Indicazioni Nazionali per il curricolo della scuola dell’infanzia e del primo ciclo di istruzione”.


Studying General Didactics the student will be able to achieve the following educational aims, in the field of
Knowledge and understanding:
- To connect the characteristics of an education system to its historical, economic and cultural reasons;
- To connect culture and didactic action to specific media;
- To individuate the difference between didactic methods and didactic techniques;
- To improve her/his own pedagogical and didactic culture.
Applying knowledge and understanding:
- To read and comment the text of the “Indicazioni Nazionali per il curricolo della scuola dell’infanzia e del primo ciclo di istruzione”;
- To complete his/her own educative and didactic experiences/point of view with the suggestions received;
- To propose didactic hypothesis coherent with the Italian and European regulatory framework.
Making judgements:
- To identify the peculiarity of every didactic point of view to choose one’s own;
- To debate and value the features and the implications of the didactic point of view proposed by the professor;
- To improve own awareness about the responsibility of the teaching rule.
Communication skills:
- To debate explaining his/her own point of view and educational and didactic experiences;
- To improve the ability to read aloud and to speak in public;
- To increase his/her own abilities to use digital and multimedia technologies.
Learning skills:
- To increase independent judgement about the proposed and debated matters;
- To increase the need continuous of in-depth analysis and documentary research on the Internet, books and periodicals;
- To increase his/her own personal culture involving him/herself in the multimedia and digital culture.