91866 - Aesthetics Education and Child Drawing

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Docente: Marco Dallari
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: ICAR/17
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Educator in Childhood Social Services (cod. 9083)

Course contents

Drawing and other languages: what is meant by symbolic competence and how it develops in early childhood. The graffiti Homo sapiens’. Discovering children's drawing through Lascaux. The pleasure principle. From the drive dimension to the discovery of symbolic pleasure and "beauty". Symbolic emancipation as a treatment practice. Narration as a cognitive and relational resource. Narrative design: what it is and how it can be used. The artists who help us understand children's drawing: Dubuffet, Mirò, Kandinskij, Klee, Picasso, Pistoletto ...

Readings/Bibliography

mandatory texts:

Cappelletti A.R. Disegno e narrazione al nido, Trento, Erickson, 2018

Dallari M. La zattera della bellezza Trento Erickson 2021

Dallari M. Arte e disegno infantile, Dispensa opensource online.

optional texts:

Berger J. (2005) Sul disegnare, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2017.

AAVV Kamishibai istruzioni per l’uso Bazzano (Bo) Artebambini 2019

Terrusi M. Meraviglie mute, Roma, Carocci.

Luigini A (cura) Lineis describere, sette seminari fra rappresentazione e formazione, Melfi, Libria, 2017.

Teaching methods

frontal lessons and video clips

Office hours

See the website of Marco Dallari