Teaching - Università Roma Tre

Children's Literature (objectives)

With the course of Children’s literature, students will be able to achieve the following educational goals:
In terms of knowledge and understanding:
- knowledge in the field of children's literature, with particular attention to the historical development of this discipline and the aspects of research and the interpretative criticism of literary text for children
- knowledge of the prospects and theoretical models of children’s literature
- knowledge of the main models of didactic design and evaluation methods of the child-narrative-book relationship.
- knowledge of IT tools and technologies for innovation-based teaching, in particular relating to the use of paper and digital texts

In terms of ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
- the ability to create an authentic educational relationship aimed at emotional-emotional, socio-cultural and cognitive maturation gained through a conscious use of pre-reading and reading in both primary and secondary schools.
- Ability to design and realize training paths that use narrative and book with a variety of methodologies and organizational solutions appropriate to child development and learning progression.
- ability to take care of documentation, to monitor teaching and to devise instruments for verifying and evaluating student learning, taking due consideration of INVALSI trials and those resulting from the major international surveys on learning levels (IEA TIMSS and PIRLS).

In terms of autonomy of judgment:
- Attitudes to problematize situations and educational events, to analyze them deeply and to elaborate them in a reflective way, putting children in the condition of always elaborating a personal reading perspective;
- Aptitude to consider alternative solutions to problems and to make decisions that respond to the student's training needs, stimulating them, for example, from switching from verbal to graphic language when approaching narratives;
- Aptitude to renew didactic practices through openness to research, experimentation and innovation through the use of appropriately selected editorial products

In terms of communicative abilities:
- ability to expose in an organized manner the objectives and the nature of the teaching activity through educational and educational planning, with particular reference to the use of illustrated stories;
- the ability to entertain positive relationships with pupils' families, showing openness and genuine interest in dialogue and adopting the humanistic-affective log of communication, with particular reference to families of pupils of different culture or religion;
- the ability to use digital communication tools in school contexts both to use teaching technology and to reduce the distance between formal languages of scholastic and informal languages.

In terms of lifelong learning:
- Aptitude to always extend their knowledge of editorial novelties in the field of literature for children and adolescents

Code

22902388

Language

ITA

Type of certificate

Profit certificate

Credits

Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code

M-PED/02

Contact Hours

Type of Activity

Core compulsory activities

Teacher	CANTATORE LORENZO (syllabus) The Literature course for children intends to address the future teachers of kindergarten and primary schools to provide them with hermeneutical, didactic, historiographical, linguistic and iconographic tools useful for dealing with, with due pedagogical awareness, the reading of literary texts intended for public of children and adolescents. The lessons in attendance will be devoted mainly to the identification of strategies and methods for educating children to read and to stimulate the necessary motivational processes in them. Reading aloud, the animated reading, the construction of the reading environment, the physical relationship with the object-book, the reading of the images, the places where to carry out the promotion of reading (school, library, playroom, house etc. ), the creative relationship between storytelling, reading and writing: these are just some of the great themes that go through and determine the complex relationship between the child and the literary text and which must be tackled with pedagogical care and professionalism to counter the serious problem of the removal of young people from reading practices and from the use of literary texts. Alongside these theoretical aspects the lessons of prof. Cantatore will be characterized by: 1. appropriate historical focus to identify the most important steps of the progressive formation of a literary tradition specifically dedicated to younger people; 2. practical demonstrations of how to read a book to / with children (in this case students are actively involved). During the course, cinematographic transpositions of literary texts for children will be projected and writers, illustrators, critics, publishers, booksellers, educators, teachers specialized in children's literature will be invited to lecture. The course also includes virtual meetings between the lecturer and the students via e-mail (exchange of educational materials, urgent notices, information on events related to children's literature in which it is possible to participate as exhibitions, shows, exhibitions, etc. .). Through the online environment, each student must perform an exercise assigned by the teacher. It is essential that all students register for the Roma Tre formonline platform. The Literature course for children intends to address the future teachers of kindergarten and primary schools to provide them with hermeneutical, didactic, historiographical, linguistic and iconographic tools useful for dealing with, with due pedagogical awareness, the reading of literary texts intended for public of children and adolescents. The lessons in attendance will be devoted mainly to the identification of strategies and methods for educating children to read and to stimulate the necessary motivational processes in them. Reading aloud, the animated reading, the construction of the reading environment, the physical relationship with the object-book, the reading of the images, the places where to carry out the promotion of reading (school, library, playroom, house etc. ), the creative relationship between storytelling, reading and writing: these are just some of the great themes that go through and determine the complex relationship between the child and the literary text and which must be tackled with pedagogical care and professionalism to counter the serious problem of the removal of young people from reading practices and from the use of literary texts. Alongside these theoretical aspects the lessons of prof. Cantatore will be characterized by: 1. appropriate historical focus to identify the most important steps of the progressive formation of a literary tradition specifically dedicated to younger people; 2. practical demonstrations of how to read a book to / with children (in this case students are actively involved). During the course, cinematographic transpositions of literary texts for children will be projected and writers, illustrators, critics, publishers, booksellers, educators, teachers specialized in children's literature will be invited to lecture. The course also includes virtual meetings between the lecturer and the students via e-mail (exchange of educational materials, urgent notices, information on events related to children's literature in which it is possible to participate as exhibitions, shows, exhibitions, etc. .). Through the online environment, each student must perform an exercise assigned by the teacher. It is essential that all students register for the Roma Tre formonline platform. (reference books) BIBLIOGRAFIA PER SOSTENERE L’ESAME: Storia e critica della letteratura per l’infanzia: • Lorenzo Cantatore (a cura di), Primo: leggere, Edizioni Conoscenza • Marnie Campagnaro (a cura di), Le terre della fantasia: leggere la letteratura per l’infanzia e l’adolescenza, Donzelli Albi illustrati: • Leo Lionni, Piccolo blu e piccolo giallo¸ Babalibri • Maurice Sendak, Nel paese dei mostri selvaggi, Adelphi • Antonella Abbatiello, Bruno Tognolini, Alfabeto delle fiabe, Topipittori Romanzi Due romanzi a scelta fra i seguenti: • David Almond, Mina, Salani, Firenze • Anne Laure Bondoux, La vita come viene, San Paolo • Aidan Chambers, Muoio dalla voglia di conoscerti, Rizzoli • Roald Dahl, Il GGG, Salani • Neil Gaiman, Il figlio del cimitero, Mondadori • Mark Haddon, Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte, Einaudi • R.J. Palacio, Wonder, Giunti • Philip Pullman, La bussola d’oro, Salani • Brian Selznick, La straordinaria invenzione di Hugo Cabret, Mondadori • Jarry Spinelli, Stargirl, Mondadori Due romanzi a scelta fra i seguenti: • Ermanno Detti, L’assalto al cielo, Gallucci • Antonio Ferrara, Batti il muro, Rizzoli • Luigi Garlando, ’O mae’. Storia di judo e di camorra, Piemme • Luisa Mattia, Merlino. La magia di Stonehenge, Giunti • Angela Nanetti, Mio nonno era un ciliegio, Einaudi Ragazzi • Bianca Pitzorno, L’incredibile storia di Lavinia, Einaudi Ragazzi • Roberto Piumini, Mattia e il nonno, Einaudi Ragazzi • Guido Sgardoli, L’odissea di Argo, Einaudi • Bruno Tognolini, Il giardino dei musi eterni, Salani • Paola Zannoner, L’ultimo faro, De Agostini
Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities	From to
Delivery mode	Traditional At a distance
Attendance	not mandatory
Evaluation methods	Oral exam