The article proposes looking at children’s literature, particularly the form of the picture book, as an educational resource for producing body awareness in school. Eight reading steps for as many bodily actions aimed at naming the body, activating it, getting to know it and moving it in space, on and off the pages; between grounding, listening, breathing, playing and moving, the rediscovery of gestures and anatomical truths invites to deepen self-knowledge as a preliminary act to the encounter and relationship with the other and with the environment. The picture books by their specificities of short form and cross-over, offer, even in non-fiction production, the possibility of bringing attention back to the body dimension within the school and educational debate, where it lives today in a state of malaise and oblivion. Meaningful conversations, explorations and relationships flow from the pages of the albums: research on language as a tool that gives dignity and value to each person, and encounters with the artistic representation of the world as an infinite mirror of its multiplicity and variety, constitute valuable opportunities for an education that is aware of the wholeness of learners and teachers and the integrated, erotic and embodied dimension of their relationship.

L’articolo propone di guardare alla letteratura per l’infanzia, in particolare alla forma dell’albo illustrato, come risorsa educativa per produrre consapevolezza corporea a scuola. Otto passi di lettura per altrettante azioni corporee volte a nominare il corpo, attivarlo, conoscerlo e muoverlo nello spazio, dentro e fuori le pagine; fra radicamento, ascolto, respiro, gioco e movimento, la riscoperta di gesti e verità anatomiche invita ad approfondire la conoscenza di sé come atto preliminare all’incontro e alla relazione con l’altro e con l’ambiente. Gli albi illustrati, per le loro specificità di forma breve e trasversale per età, offrono, anche nella produzione non-fiction, la possibilità di riportare l’attenzione alla dimensione corporea all’interno della scuola e del dibattito educativo, dove essa vive oggi in uno stato di malessere e di oblio. Dalle pagine degli albi scaturiscono conversazioni, esplorazioni e relazioni significative: la ricerca sul linguaggio come strumento che conferisce dignità e valore a ognuno, l’incontro con la rappresentazione artistica del mondo come specchio infinito della sua molteplicità e varietà, costituiscono occasioni preziose per un’educazione consapevole dell’interezza dei discenti e dei docenti e della dimensione integrata, erotica ed embodied della loro relazione.

Terrusi (2023). Letteratura per l’infanzia e consapevolezza corporea: una lettura in otto tempi fra albi illustrati e pratiche somatiche Children’s literature and body awareness: an eight-stage reading between picture books and somatics. ENCYCLOPAIDEIA, 27(65), 79-95 [10.6092/issn.1825-8670/16366].

Letteratura per l’infanzia e consapevolezza corporea: una lettura in otto tempi fra albi illustrati e pratiche somatiche Children’s literature and body awareness: an eight-stage reading between picture books and somatics

Terrusi
2023

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The article proposes looking at children’s literature, particularly the form of the picture book, as an educational resource for producing body awareness in school. Eight reading steps for as many bodily actions aimed at naming the body, activating it, getting to know it and moving it in space, on and off the pages; between grounding, listening, breathing, playing and moving, the rediscovery of gestures and anatomical truths invites to deepen self-knowledge as a preliminary act to the encounter and relationship with the other and with the environment. The picture books by their specificities of short form and cross-over, offer, even in non-fiction production, the possibility of bringing attention back to the body dimension within the school and educational debate, where it lives today in a state of malaise and oblivion. Meaningful conversations, explorations and relationships flow from the pages of the albums: research on language as a tool that gives dignity and value to each person, and encounters with the artistic representation of the world as an infinite mirror of its multiplicity and variety, constitute valuable opportunities for an education that is aware of the wholeness of learners and teachers and the integrated, erotic and embodied dimension of their relationship.
2023
Terrusi (2023). Letteratura per l’infanzia e consapevolezza corporea: una lettura in otto tempi fra albi illustrati e pratiche somatiche Children’s literature and body awareness: an eight-stage reading between picture books and somatics. ENCYCLOPAIDEIA, 27(65), 79-95 [10.6092/issn.1825-8670/16366].
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