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Autor/inn/en | Filograsso, Ilaria; Viola, Tito Vezio |
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Titel | Scientific thinking and environmental education as factors of innovation in literature for children. |
Quelle | In: Educatia 21, (2012) 10, [16 S.]
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1841-0456; 2247-8671 |
Schlagwörter | Soziale Folge; Jugendliteratur; Kinderliteratur; Fiktionaler Text; Literaturanalyse; Nichtfiktionaler Text; Umweltbewusstsein; Umweltschutz; Umweltverschmutzung; 20. Jahrhundert; Auswirkung; Innovation; Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung; 70er Jahre; 80er Jahre; Italien |
Abstract | In children's literature science and nature have traditionally played the role of a narrative device, a landscape background for the setting where to let speaking animal characters act. It is only since the 70s that the environmental issue has started to appear through the ecological problems, by dragging new visions and critical analyses into literature. The article analyzes the influences the scientific environmentalism had on the Italian literature between 1970 and 1980, when an ecological awareness starts to progressively develop within the country. By adopting some rules belonging to ecocriticism, attention is being focused on those works which are the first ones to be inspired by the 'thought-through-connection' notion of modern ecology and which find their first expressive and artistic paths in the narrative for children and young adults by identifying, in a connected way, the crossovers with the popularization of science and with the objectives of environmental education. Through the narrative themes and the popularising writing - adopting the ecocritical statute as a reference guidance - the strategic problems relating to the ecological issue within the Italian fiction and non fiction are brought to the fore: the effects deriving from the aggression to Third World's resources, the need for science to radically change its own traditional point of view, the inseparable interrelation between environmental damage and social damage by paying special attention to the role played by information. It is therefore suggested that modern ecological thought has remarkably contributed to the general innovation of literature and publishing industry for children which has developed in the subsequent twenty-year period. (Orig.). |
Erfasst von | Externer Selbsteintrag |
Update | 2015/1 |