In recent years, resorting to metaphor, children’s narratives with the strength of words and the beauty of images, have addressed complex, delicate, uncomfortable topics, freeing themselves from the pedagogical-moralistic and ideological conditioning present in many stories produced for and about dictatorships. This contribution, therefore, proposes a reflection on a selection of picturebooks that, between past and present, have given voice to childhood, cultivating memory and encouraging the assumption of a critical-reflective posture. Stories where childhood, though deprived, managed to be resilient and to be protagonist of History, as in La crociata dei bambini, with tributes to exemplary figures such as Korczak and Levi, to reaffirm the values of solidarity and brotherhood. The aim is to valorize narratives as a pedagogical device to create educational paths to support and protect democratic processes and individual and collective freedoms.
Negli ultimi anni le narrazioni per bambini e bambine, facendo ricorso alla metafora, con la forza delle parole e la bellezza delle immagini, hanno trattato temi complessi, delicati, scomodi, liberandosi dai condizionamenti pedagogico-moralistici e ideologici, presenti invece in molte storie prodotte per e nelle dittature. Questo contributo propone, pertanto, una riflessione su una selezione di albi illustrati che, fra passato e presente, hanno dato voce alle infanzie, per coltivare la memoria e favorire l’assunzione di una postura critico-riflessiva. Racconti dove l’infanzia, seppur deprivata, è riuscita a essere resiliente e protagonista della Storia, come ne La crociata dei bambini, con omaggi a figure esemplari come Korczak e Levi, per riaffermare i valori della solidarietà e della fratellanza. Finalità è valorizzare le narrazioni come dispositivo pedagogico per realizzare percorsi educativi a sostegno e a tutela dei processi democratici e delle libertà individuali e collettive.
Zizioli, E., Franchi, G. (2024). Storie di resilienza e libertà. Rileggere le dittature attraverso gli albi illustrati. METIS, 14(2), 206-225 [10.30557/MT00312].
Storie di resilienza e libertà. Rileggere le dittature attraverso gli albi illustrati.
E. Zizioli;G. Franchi
2024-01-01
Abstract
In recent years, resorting to metaphor, children’s narratives with the strength of words and the beauty of images, have addressed complex, delicate, uncomfortable topics, freeing themselves from the pedagogical-moralistic and ideological conditioning present in many stories produced for and about dictatorships. This contribution, therefore, proposes a reflection on a selection of picturebooks that, between past and present, have given voice to childhood, cultivating memory and encouraging the assumption of a critical-reflective posture. Stories where childhood, though deprived, managed to be resilient and to be protagonist of History, as in La crociata dei bambini, with tributes to exemplary figures such as Korczak and Levi, to reaffirm the values of solidarity and brotherhood. The aim is to valorize narratives as a pedagogical device to create educational paths to support and protect democratic processes and individual and collective freedoms.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.