Università Roma Tre

 The present program of study establishes, at its foundation, the recognition of the centrality of the aesthetic paradigm as educational and training of the mind of the child and adolescent, from the point of view of cognitive, emotional, imaginative and perceptive development. The comparison with different forms of textuality (a poem, a novel, a philosophical dialogue), as well as images (a drawing, a painting, a sculpture) or musical or theatrical forms, bears in itself the value of an increase in exercise of reading, writing, listening and vision, introducing us to the worlds of art, to its peculiar and differentiated languages, having its own specificity and vocabulary, capable of activating paths of self-edification and of the formation of the most pedagogically fruitful person. But it also constitutes a way of access to the cultural tradition, historically connoted, of reference, which through its symbolic forms, to put it with Cassirer, finds the way to be communicated, transmitted, assimilated, constantly questioning us and thus placing ourselves in a space dialogic, of responsiveness and encounter with texts, authors, traditions of thought. Part of the program is dedicated to early childhood and to applications to educational settings for children.
 
This year's course (2017-2018) will focus on the trinomial dialogue / humanitas / education, placed at the base of the aesthetic experience. The text of Gadamer introduces us to a reflection on the theme of dialogic confrontation with the text, as well as the theme of play, the symbol, the party. Giosi's text proposes a philosophical-educational reflection on the dimension of aesthetic experience as a form of the human, in its crucial educational value. Finally, Sophoclean Antigone will be the occasion for a reading of a classic text and for a reflection on the human and the tragic as an experience of limitation, pain, love.

Texts:
H.G. Gadamer, Attualità del bello, Genova, Marietti, 2000.
M. Giosi, Attraversare i mondi dell’arte. Per una educazione estetica oggi, Bologna, Clueb, 2012.
T. Mann, La montagna incantata (trad.di E. Pocar), Milano, Mondadori, 1965 (o altre edizioni).

Laboratorio da 3 CFU:
W.Shakespeare; Re Lear (qualsivoglia edizione col testo inglese a fronte, sia Rizzoli che MOndadori)