Free University of Bolzano
The Faculty of Education in Brixen is one of the three campuses of the Free University of Bolzano. It was founded in 1997 with the mission of training preschool and primary school teachers from the three linguistic groups of the autonomous province of Bozen-Bolzano.
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On a national level, it is recognised as the Faculty responsible for meeting the needs of initial and in-service/ongoing teacher training for the whole region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. In total, it counts 1560 students and 55 professors and researchers. At the moment, the Faculty is also responsible for the training of professionals working in Education, Social Work, and Communication and Culture.
The main degree course is the five-year Master’s in Early Childhood and Primary Education, complemented by the one-year teacher-training programmes for in-service teachers (PAS) and in-service/ongoing teachers (TFA). In addition, the Faculty offers three different undergraduate degrees in Social Work, in Social Education, and in Communication Sciences and Culture, a two-year Master’s degree in Innovation and Research for Social Work and Social Education (IRIS) and a PhD in General Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy and Didactics.
The programmes are trilingual with 30% of instruction in German, 30% in Italian, and 30% in English. The Master’s in Early Childhood and Primary Education is structured in three separate linguistic sections – German, Italian and Ladin – requiring students to attain C1 in German and Italian, B2 in English, plus Ladin in the Ladin section.
Scuola Primaria Rosmini
La Scuola Primaria Rosmini si trova nel centro storico di Bressanone e accoglie 10 classi di alunni provenienti da luoghi e mondi differenti.
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L’edificio, ristrutturato negli anni 90, possiede locali molto luminosi, contiene 15 aule, una sala mensa, un’Aula Magna, alcune aule polivalenti (ateliers, musica, multimedialità, biblioteca) e due palestre. C’è anche un cortile con un giardino parzialmente alberato. Qui si studia in più lingue, si gioca, si condivide, qualche volta si sbaglia, si litiga e si fa la pace, come in ogni altra scuola del pianeta. Insomma, si impara che è bello stare insieme anche se non tutto è perfetto, in quel magico periodo della vita che va dai 6 agli 11 anni.
Instituto Comprensivo Bolzano 1 – Centro Storico
Renata Zanin
Free University of Bozen
Renata Zanin
Free University of Bozen
Renata Zanin is Assistant Professor and Researcher for German language (L1, L2 an FL) at the Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Education. She is coordinator of the Teacher-Training- CLIL-Course and of the Teacher-Training- Course English for Primary Schools organized at the Free University of Bolzano. Her research interests are CLIL in primary and secondary school, teacher training on content and language integrated learning, language awareness and corpora, language learning and teaching with corpora.
Lorenzo Spreafico
Free University of Bozen
Lorenzo Spreafico
Free University of Bozen
Lorenzo Spreafico is researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Education. His research interests include multilingual learner corpora and second language acquisition.
Monica Parricchi
Free University of Bozen
Monica Parricchi
Free University of Bozen
Monica Parricchi, PhD, is a Researcher in General and Social Pedagogy at the Free University of Bozen, in Brixen. Her teaching and research activities are in the fields of General and Social Pedagogy, ICT for Education, Blended Learning, Consume and well-being Education. From 2007 to 2011 she served as Pedagogical expert on Dolceta (Development of On Line Consumer Education) EU Project by DG Sanco.
Genny Ploner
Free University of Bolzano
Genny Ploner
Faculty of Education at the Free University of Bolzano
Genny Ploner has attended the academic degree at the Faculty of Education in Brixen (Italy) and has teached at ladin plurilingual primary schools in South Tyrol from 1993 – 2011, where the teaching languages are German, Italian, Ladin and English.
Since 2011 she is the responsible of the placement office of the ladin section of the Faculty of Education at the Free University of Bolzano. She attended many in-service teacher training courses in several pedagogical subjects and plurilinguism. She concluded as a specialist trainer a specialisation course run by the Free University of Bolzano (2013). In 2016 she concluded a specialisation about the pedagogy of Maria Montessori run by the Ladin Pedagogical Area in Bolzano.
The focus of her interest in education are the integrated language teaching approach and teaching methods in a plurilinguistic area. She is a teacher trainer in subjects like musical education, plurilingual approach, ladin minority language school system and history.
Stefania Torri
Scuola primaria Rosmini di Bressanone
Stefania Torri
Stefania Torri insegna lingua inglese e ICT in English secondo la metodologia CLIL presso la scuola primaria Rosmini di Bressanone.
Ha conseguito la Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere presso l’Università di Pisa e il Dottorato in Letterature Comparate presso il Dipartimento di Lingua e letteratura tedesca moderna dell’Università di Stoccarda. Nel campo della comparatistica ha pubblicato, fra l’altro, una monografia in lingua tedesca sulla ricezione di Dostoevskij nella letteratura tedesca e italiana.
Sia per interessi scientifici che per la lunga esperienza sul campo, la glottodidattica infantile è divenuto da alcuni anni, il suo nuovo ambito di ricerca. In questo campo è intervenuta ad alcuni convegni riguardanti l’apprendimento di lingue seconde/straniere in contesti multilingui da parte di alunni frequentanti la scuola primaria. Ha pubblicato sulla rivista LEND un saggio sull’uso di musica e canzoni in classe e uno sull’utilizzo di materiale video per promuovere la capacità di ascolto e comprensione del linguaggio settoriale delle scienze da parte di bambini con background migratorio. Coordina uno scambio di tirocinanti tra il Dipartimento di Pedagogia per la Scuola Primaria dell’Università di Ratisbona e l’IC Bressanone.
