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SUMMARY:Didactic Tutoring: a pedagogical proposal for Social Sciences and 
 Humanities  curricula - Daniela Sideri
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CONTACT:Araceli Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:To what extent are students from Social Sciences and Humanitie
 s Faculties prepared for their transition to the workplace? Can they be se
 en as competitive human resources in the western job market\, which is now
  affected by graduates’ unemployment? Of course\, the answers vary from 
 context to context. This seminar addresses national contexts where the une
 mployment rate is high in both absolute and comparative terms (SSH vs. STE
 M graduates)\, and where the SSH teaching-learning environment suffers fro
 m both drop-outs and lacks in practice-based activities. Such description 
 matches Italy\, but can also fit other nations. Didactic Tutoring is desig
 ned as a compulsory set of activities aimed at stimulating SSH students’
  self-awareness and motivation\, and at developing their professional expe
 rtise. The presented proposal is hitherto theoretical\, but meant to becom
 e applied. Empirical evidence on the level of self-awareness of students i
 s being collected through a qualitative case-study analysis\, conducted in
  both an Italian SSH Faculty and here in the Faculty of Education in Cambr
 idge.\n\nProfile\nDaniela Sideri is a post-doctoral researcher at the Univ
 ersity of Siena\, about to move to the University of Chieti\, Italy. She i
 s a sociological researcher whose interests are focused on the agents and 
 process of socialization and on higher education in social sciences and hu
 manities\, including topics that vary from employability and professional 
 identity to project-based learning and self-awareness. In 2008 she earned 
 a diploma in Political Sciences from the Luiss University of Rome\, Italy.
  After spending her last semester at CUNY\, she earned her doctoral degree
  in Text Sciences from the University of Siena in 2012\, with a thesis on 
 semiotic content analysis and the educational functions of literature. She
  is a visiting scholar in the Faculty with Professor Jan Vermunt as her ho
 st. \n\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ (Room
  To Be Confirmed)
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