SFI112 - LITERATURE FOR CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

The course contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of the Bachelor's Degree in Modern Literature, enabling students to acquire theoretical and methodological skills to understand and critically evaluate children's literature, understood as a useful tool for the design and management of cultural and educational activities aimed at pre-adolescents and adolescents in school and extracurricular settings.Expected learning outcomesKnowledge and understanding:Educational objectives. At the end of the course, students should be able to:- Recognise the fundamental epistemological issues relating to theory and research on children's and young adult literature- Recognise the relationship between the history of children's and young adult literature and the history of educational and training processes- Describe the socio-cultural changes that have innovated children's and young adult literature in terms of language, form and themes in the European context- Describe emerging trends in children's and young adult publishing, with particular reference to multimodality, new technologies and new pedagogical challenges in the contemporary multicultural context.Autonomy of judgement:At the end of the course, students should be able to:- Critically evaluate a literary text for children and adolescentsCommunication skills: Students will be able to:- Clearly present the results of their individual study and research using the technical language of the disciplineLearning skillsStudents will be able to:- analyse and use the main teaching strategies for book mediation, reading education and literacy promotion, which are useful for accessing training courses for teaching in schools.