The power of the glance: social theatre, art and digital in preschools
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https://doi.org/10.61007/QdC.2024.1.253Keywords:
pre-school age, art, authorship, theatre, narrative framesAbstract
The research proposed here concerns the design and experimentation of an educational process aimed at changing the perception of the role that children can play within cultural processes. The project under study, Artoo - Art told by children, has experimented from 2017 to the present day with an educational process between schools, museum institutions and families in which pre-school children are asked to share their views on works of art through the tools of theatre and new digital technologies.
The research hypothesis started from the observation, supported by both fieldwork and data collected over time, that children in this age group have a high capacity to relate to the symbolic dimension of artistic artefacts. They are able to feel and understand in an extremely immediate way the profound meaning of a work and, at the same time, to narrate it in an extremely clear and engaging way, thus testifying to their profound capacity for immersion in the aesthetic experience.
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