LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course is meant to provide both the basic elements concerning the history of children’s literature as a whole, in its complexity as a scientific discipline, and specific in-depth analyses of particularly relevant genres and themes, such as the fairytale, the comic strip, the cartoon. The part specifically designed for the Primary Education course will deal with issues related to the instillation of a taste for reading, not as an end in itself, but as a practice to be pursued all along the educational path (and beyond); the laboratory, which is an integral part of the course, will be devoted to picture ‘reading’ and to the problem of integration between text and images.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

For all study classes
- knowledge of principal approaches to the Children's Literature
- acquisition of suitable disciplinar knowledges
- Ability to identify the specific features of different historical ages

- experiment and acquire transversal skills such as: creativity development, effective communication, team work, problem solving

Primary Teacher Education

The specific objectives for the kindergarten primarily refer to retrieval, analysis, interpretation and use of narrative sources (books, cartoon, apps, etc.) for children aged 3 to 6 years.

The specific objectives for Primary School mainly refer to retrieval, analysis, interpretation and use of narrative sources (books, cartoon, apps, etc.) for children aged 6 to 11 years.

TEACHING METHODS

The lectures - except for health emergencies, etc., which provide for the activation of the e-learning mode - are conductes in presence and involving the use of multimedia devices. Attending students can be divided into small groups to undertake research aimed at achieving the training objectives of the cours. Approximately 5 or 10% of sources used in lectures well be in English.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The first part of the Course focuses on Italian authors and themes from the Nineteenth Century on; the second part’s goals are: analyzing models offered to children by books and television and authors.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Prymary School (8 cfu)

1. P. Boero - C. De Luca, La letteratura per l'infanzia, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2009.

2. A. Antoniazzi, Raccontiamo a più piccoli, Carocci, Roma, 2019

3. A. Antoniazzi, F. Caffarena, a cura di, Il volo educante. Narrazioni alate per l'infanzia , Edizioni Rivista Aeronautica, 2021

4. Anna Antoniazzi, Tradition or revolution? The difficult "turning point" in Italian Children’s Literature, Strenæ, Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance, n.13, 2018 (https://journals.openedition.org/strenae/1919)

5. Anna Antoniazzi, Born to win. Children’s literature and male models, RICERCHE DI PEDAGOGIA E DIDATTICA, vol. 14, n.1 2019, p. 1-23 (https://rpd.unibo.it/article/view/8695 )

Sciences of Education ( 6 cfu)

1. P. Boero - C. De Luca, La letteratura per l'infanzia, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2009.

2. A. Antoniazzi, Raccontiamo a più piccoli, Carocci, Roma, 2019

3. A. Antoniazzi, F. Caffarena, a cura di, Il volo educante. Narrazioni alate per l'infanzia , Edizioni Rivista Aeronautica, 2021