Rossella Certini

L’esperienza artistica nella scuola italiana

The man’s history speaks an artistic language and the man’s evolution can be narrated by the artworks created by human’s imagination. The school should rethink about the role of art into educational path of the youth, considering it as a cross instrument for learning and activating a play that alternates to action of creating with the activity of understanding.

La famiglia: un progetto pedagogico

The essay briefly reconstructs the complex origin of the concept of family. Rereading the classic literature on the subject (by Rousseau, to Engels, to Gramsci to the most recent authors such as Max Horkheimer or Chiara Saraceno) you may notice that the historical context and the structure of society have always influenced the structure of the family. It was passed by the singular (family) to the plural (families) and this implies the general transformation of the systems of life today. Speaking of project-family means to reflect on these changes with planning purposes, trying to focus on new strategies to enhance and support the needs of families today. One of the most critical aspects of the family institution in Italy is the weakness of social policies in support of it. The essay can be considered as an introductory course to the study on the complex galaxy called family.

I nonni: per una prima formazione alla storia

The essay addresses the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, not as a comparison between generations but as a process of mutual growth which is mainly based on the narrative. Grandparents are the first historians of the family and through the narration of their memories they offer to their grandchildren a first approach to the historical time. Grandparents transmit information to the younger generations about their past, but also on the social history of the past and for this reason they help them to know the worlds long gone. Grandparents, through the emotions of the narrative, make it more real and alive the concept of “History” and this informal method of addressing the story could help the traditional teaching to fascinate most younger people in this discipline often considered far from the interests of children and boys.