Academic Profile: Professor
in Children's Literature,Department of
Educational Sciences. Bologna, University, Italy.
Teaching : Children's Literature, and Theory and History of children's books
Research Topics imaginary
and myth-making; The classic Fairytales, children's literature and
literary metaphor; educational care in first infancy services and
storytelling; pedagogy of storytelling; educational relationship,
childcare and narrative setting; storytelling and children's
theatre; contamination in narrative forms: children's literature,
literature, film, theatre, illustrations. Others research Themes: Children, Darkness, Representation of deprived childhood,
Dickens caregiver, Hanry James and childhood, otherness and children's literature; pain, death and childhood in children's literature...
M-PED/02 HISTORY OF PEDAGOGY
Curriculum Vitae
Milena Bernardi is Associate Professor in Children's Literature Department of Educational Sciences. She is a
lecturer of Children's Literature and Theory and History of children's books (Degree in
Edutator in chilcare servis and Education Sciences); Her research field is Children's
Literature, with a special focus on the complexity of imagery and
the relationships amongst the various forms of narrative: books,
cinema, theatre, television… She took part in the Department's
two-year Research Project on “Care in Education”, publishing the
results in an article. She continues her research work within the
Department, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of
knowledge and experience through narrative. She also offers
specialized training in education, with special attention on the
relationship between education and the setting of narrative, the
adults' awareness and skills in oral narrative, the development of
the reading habit, the authentic communication between storyteller
and listener in the exchange between children and adults, and among
children, teenagers and adults. Training courses are specially
devised for early childhood workers, kindergarten teachers and
primary school teachers, as well as for teachers and other
professionals who relate to teenagers. In close connection to her
disciplinary field and to the focus of her training courses, she
also carries out research work on “theatrical narrative”, with
special attention to fairytales and the discovery of a “telling
voice”.
Milena Bernardi is
- scientific coordinator of CRLI, research and study center abaut Children's literature
- a menber of scientific committees of editorial series and schientific journals
- editor-in-chief with Emma Beseghi of the Bagheera editorial series, ETS, PISA, ITALY
- a menber of the board C.I.R.S.E - Centro Italiano per la ricerca storico-educativa