HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING AND CHILDREN'S BOOK

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 2° Year - Curriculum Educatore nei servizi per l'infanzia
Teaching Staff: Letterio TODARO
Credit Value: 10
Scientific field: M-PED/02 - HISTORY OF EDUCATION
Taught classes: 60 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course aims to develop a general knowledge about the birth and spreading of educational publishing in the contemporary age.

Attention will be mainly focused on the of the children’s books production in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.


Course Structure

Lectures.

Readings.

Multimedial sources.


Detailed Course Content

Publishers, books and children’s literature in the contemporary cultural context.


Textbook Information

Groundings:

1 - S. BARSOTTI, L. CANTATORE (a cura di), Letteratura per l’infanzia. Forme, temi e simboli del contemporaneo. Roma, Carocci, 2019.

Specialised Course: (The children's books in Italy after the WWII: Dino Buzzati and Gianni Rodari)

2.- L. TODARO (a cura di), Il puer e la fortezza. Dimensioni artistiche, spazi dell'immaginazione e narrativa per l'infanzia in Dino Buzzati. Roma, Anicia, 2018.

3.- D. BUZZATI, La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia, Milano, Mondadori, 2015.

4. – P. BOERO, W. FOCHESATO, L’alfabeto di Gianni, Belvedere Marittimo, Coccole Books, 2019.

5.- G. RODARI, Favole al telefono, Trieste, Einaudi ragazzi, 2017.