Infanzia, adolescenza e resilienza. Zigzagando fra generi letterari e sfide educative
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https://doi.org/10.13129/2785-0919/argo.3189Keywords:
Letteratura per l’infanzia e l’adolescenza, resilienza, generi letterari, paura, trauma, problem solving finzionale, educazione, piacere della letturaAbstract
Frequentare la letteratura per l’infanzia e l’adolescenza educa al piacere del leggere e alla costruzione di competenze di literacy ma questa frequentazione pare essere anche una via promettente per sollecitare in bambini e bambine riflessioni intorno alle capacità di resilienza. Le ragioni sono molteplici: nutre l’immaginazione, rafforza l’alfabetizzazione letteraria ed estetica, rinsalda i comportamenti morali e offre mondi fittizi in cui giovani lettrici e lettori, catapultati in un contesto di sfide educative, possono, sebbene per via finzionale, fare pratica dei problemi della vita, imparare ad affrontare eventi abbruttenti e disumanizzanti e trarre forza dai traumi e dalle lacerazioni della propria esistenza. Nel saggio si indagano alcuni generi letterari (giallo, noir, thriller e fiabe) e le ragioni che li rendono più adatti, rispetto ad altre forme narrative, ad interpellare, provocare e interrogare i nostri paesaggi resilienti.
Children’s and young adult (YA) literature cultivates the pleasure of reading and contributes to building literacy skills. However, it also seems to offer a promising contribution to discussing resilience with children. There are many reasons for this: it nourishes imagination, reinforces literary and aesthetic literacy, promotes moral beliefs and reasoning and offers fictional worlds in which young readers can become familiar with life problems, learn to face brutalising and dehumanising events and gain strength to overcome traumas and wounds in their own lives. This essay explores the literary genres, detective stories, roman noir, thrillers and fairy tales, and the reasons why these could be more appropriate than others to engage with engage with children and stimulate discussions about resiliency.
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