Program Overview

Program Overview

The ORIENS course, "Orientamento a scuola: progettare futuri equi, inclusivi e sostenibili," aims to stimulate critical thinking in examining complex phenomena that comprise the ecosystem of future scenarios. This ecosystem is inserted into a socio-political-economic-cultural macrocosm that can favor inequalities and the diffusion of distorted visions of reality, leading to increased vulnerabilities.

Program Objectives

The course provides a space for reflection to examine the difficulties that the aforementioned phenomena can pose during the evolutionary age and to train teachers to contribute to the promotion of knowledge and skills necessary to support individuals in planning a quality future. The course aims to favor the ability to identify equitable, inclusive, and sustainable orientation trajectories to counter profiling and matching processes and to initiate laboratories in the school context that can support students in building their future.

Target Audience

The course is primarily addressed to teachers of all school levels who will acquire knowledge about the socio-economic conditions that characterize current times, the complexity inherent in the labor system, and how these can favor inequalities and vulnerabilities during the evolutionary age.

Program Structure

The course consists of 12 modules:

1. Sfide economico-sociali del XXI secolo e costruzione della vita professionale – parte prima
   • Aspects of self-presentation
   • Attention to contexts, macro, meso, and micro structures
   • Globalization and processes of vulnerability
2. Sfide economico-sociali del XXI secolo e costruzione della vita professionale – parte seconda
   • Environmental, economic, and financial aspects and processes of vulnerability
3. Sfide economico-sociali del XXI secolo e costruzione del futuro – parte terza
   • The role of technology and digitalization in characterizing the devaluation of work and processes of vulnerability
4. Diritti umani, disabilità, e costruzione della vita professionale
   • Attention to human rights
   • Disability, work, and processes of vulnerability
5. Questioni di genere e costruzione della vita professionale
   • Gender issues, work, and processes of vulnerability
6. Disinformazione e costruzione della vita professionale
   • Disinformation, work, and processes of vulnerability
7. Inclusione e giustizia sociale e ambientale e costruzione per la progettazione di futuri di qualità
   • Inclusion and social and environmental justice for quality futures
8. Da Parsons all’approccio socio-cognitivo
   • Matching, profiling, algorithmization in professional future planning: why they are conveyor belts of inequalities
   • Beliefs of efficacy, decision-making processes: which elements to consider today for the planning of the future
9. L’approccio Life design per un futuro inclusivo e sostenibile e il concetto di lavoro dignitoso del XXI secolo
   • The Life design approach for an inclusive and sustainable future
   • Reasoning on the idea of work and training at school: how to expand them, how to make them more complex and articulated, how to reason about dignity
10. Laboratori di orientamento per la costruzione di futuri improntati a inclusività, giustizia sociale e ambientale – Parte 1
    • The orientation laboratories: prerequisites and conditions
    • Proposal of laboratories
11. Laboratori di orientamento per la costruzione di futuri improntati a inclusività, giustizia sociale e ambientale – Parte 2
    • Proposal of laboratories and processes of verification of effectiveness
12. Laboratori di orientamento per la costruzione di futuri improntati a inclusività, giustizia sociale e ambientale – Supervisione
    • Analysis of activities carried out for small groups

Program Details

• Duration: Annual
• Start Date: 02/03/2023
• End Date: 31/10/2023
• Location: Padova
• Language: Italian
• CFU: 10
• Teaching Method: Distance learning
• Total Enrollment Fee: € 543.00
• Minimum Available Places: 15
• Maximum Available Places: 100
• Frequency Requirement: 70%
• Area of Interest: Health, environment, and territory

Additional Information

• The course is part of the Unipd Executive Learning platform, which promotes and disseminates Masters, Advanced Training Courses, and High Education Courses of the University of Padova.
• A micro-credential is available upon completion, which is a registration of learning outcomes obtained after a small volume of learning, evaluated based on transparent and clearly defined criteria.