LICE25 - CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS

The course contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of the Degree Course in Pedagogical Sciences, 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 in various contexts, both school and non-school.Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and ability to understand:Educational objectivesAt the end of the course, students should be able to:- Recognise the fundamental epistemological issues relating to theory and research on children's and adolescent literature -Recognise the relationship between the history of children's and adolescent literature and the history of educational and training processes- Describe the socio-cultural changes that have innovated children's and adolescent literature in terms of language, form and theme in the European context- Describe emerging trends in publishing for children and adolescents, with particular reference to multimodality, new technologies and new pedagogical challenges in the contemporary multicultural contextAutonomy 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 discipline Learning skillsStudents will be able to:- analyse and use the main teaching strategies for book mediation, reading education and literacy promotion, useful for educational planning in school and extracurricular contexts