THE EDUCATIONAL POWER OF POETRY
Abstract
This short paper is intented to present the structure and main outcomes of an educational project realized in some primary schools in the municipal district of Arezzo (Tuscany, Italy). More specifically, the project in question, entitled “The magic of poetryâ€, aimed to actualize a laboratory proposal of education to poetry and through poetry, in particular by exploiting the interplay between three figures of speech (simile, metaphor, oxymoron) and three emotions connected with them (happiness, anger, fear). The project involved children attending the second and fifth grade of six primary schools, both located in the city center and in the outskirts. Therefore, the first part of this article synthetically describes the basic framework, the contents, the activities, the organizational modalities and the educational objectives of the project; while the second part shows the obtained results as they ensue from direct observation, from students’opinions, and from a qualitative survey (open ended questionnaire) which implicated teachers.
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