91866 - Aesthetics Education and Child Drawing

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • 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)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student: - knows the main pedagogical and didactic aspects related to the development of the child artistic process ; - knows the fundamental theoretical references concerning the didactics of drawing; - knows the main phases of development of the graphic-pictorial activity in childhood; - knows the materials, the techniques and their expressive characteristics; - knows the contemporary debate related to the educational function of art with particular attention to the national and international indications; - knows how to apply in his professional field the theoretical and methodological knowledge of the didactics of drawing according to a reflexive approach; - knows how to support and enhance the artistic process of the child with particular reference to the cognitive-expressive and affective-relational educational dimensions; - knows how to plan workshops and artistic paths for children in collaboration with other professionals and families.

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

FOR ALL STUDENTS

mandatory texts:

Dallari M. Speraggi M, Disegnare per crescere Artebambini, Valsamoggia, BO, 2021 (prossima pubblicazione)

Dispensa open source ricavata dalle slides delle lezioni.

optional texts:

 

Dallari M. La zattera della bellezza, Il Margine, Trento, 2020

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

Farné R. Pedagogia visuale Raffaello Cortina Editore

Terrusi M. Meraviglie mute, Roma, Carocci.

 

FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS

Please contact Prof. Dallari by email (marco.dallari3@unibo.it) to define the study program and the final exam

Teaching methods

frontal lessons and video clips

Assessment methods

Test and shot essay

Teaching tools

Discussion during the lessons

Movies

video footage

Office hours

See the website of Marco Dallari