William Grandi

Research interests

• Educational Professionalism and Pedagogy of Storytelling.
• The narrative genre for children (mystery, fantasy, horror, adventure, science fiction, etc.).
• The relationship among narratives for children, science, technology, and ecology.
• Myth and childhood.
• Publishing, graphics, and illustrations for children.
• Fairies, sprites and elves as an opportunity for narrative, historical traces, signs of imagination, and pedagogical metaphors.
• Educational theories, teaching ideas and publications for children arising between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and their relations with the reflections of certain thinkers (Ellen Key, Rudolf Steiner,and Maria Montessori, Giovanni Gentile).Analysis of the influence exerted by these complex networks on the contemporary cultural context, with particular regard to pedagogy and children's literature.