Università Roma Tre

The course of Children's Literature intends to address the teachers to make them aware of the importance of reading literary texts (led by adult or staff) plays in the education of children (from the first months of life) and adolescents.
Many lessons will be dedicated to the identification of the most appropriate strategies to develop the so-called pleasure of reading and to generate in young readers essential motivational processes. Reading aloud, the animated reading, the environment construction of reading, the physical relationship with the object-book, the reading of the images, the places where play reading promotion (school, library, playroom, home etc. ): these are just some of the themes that run through and determine the child's relationship with the literary text and we have to deal with knowledge and pedagogical skills to address the serious problem of removal of young people from reading practices.
Besides these theoretical lessons of prof. Cantatore will be constantly characterized by:
1. suitable focus historians to identify the most important passages of the progressive formation of a literary tradition specifically dedicated to young people;
2. practical demonstrations of how to read a book to / with children (in this case it is requested the active participation of the students).
During the course will be projected film adaptations of literature for children and are often invited to give lecture writers, illustrators, critics, publishers, booksellers, educators, teachers specializing in children's literature.
During the course it will be useful to build moments of virtual meeting between the teacher and students via computer (exchange of teaching materials, emergency alerts, information on events related to children's literature to which you can participate as exhibitions, performances, exhibitions, fairs etc.). And 'essential that all students enroll platform formonline Roma Tre.

S. Blezza Picherle, Formare lettori, promuovere la lettura: riflessioni e itinerari narrativi tra territorio e scuola, Franco Angeli, Milano 2013.
L. Cantatore, Parva sed apta mihi: il paesaggio domestico nella letteratura per l’infanzia del XIX secolo, ETS, Pisa 2015 (dalla lettura di questo saggio lo studente dovrà scegliere liberamente uno dei romanzi citati, leggerlo integralmente e costruire un breve percorso storico-critico sull’autore e il suo tempo).
M. Alfonsi, La strada come testo: spazio-tempo nel romanzo di formazione, SECOP edizioni, Corato (BA) 2015
I. Cohen, L’ultimo viaggio, Orecchio Acerbo, Roma
E. Detti, Leda e il mago, ilpepeverde.it, Roma
R. Innocenti, Rosa Bianca, La Margherita edizioni, Milano