Scientific coordinator: Prof. Emma Beseghi (up to 2019), Dr. Giorgia Grilli (up to the end)
Project team: Tiziana Pironi, Paola Govoni, Milena Bernardi, Giorgia Grilli, William Grandi
Project Duration (in months): 24
Start Date: 29/01/2018
End Date: 28/01/2020
Status: closed
Total Budget: 20.000 euro
Project’s Topics: Literature for Children, Scientific Education, History of Education, Children's Publishing, Illustration
Description: The research main object concerns the analysis of the non-fiction illustrated books for children on popularization and scientific communication: it is a publishing sector greatly expanding, but currently not sufficiently analyzed by the pedagogical and historical disciplines. The research’s aim is to verify the educational, expressive and instructional potential that these editorial resources on science and technology can activate in the sectors of school instruction and informal education. The composition of the research group allows for an integrated and trans-disciplinary methodology that includes pedagogy, history of science, history of education, children's publishing and illustrations art. The long-term impact foreseen for this research intends to promote a new social, scientific and aesthetic awareness starting from the quality publishing for children on scientific popularization, thus intersecting different educational contexts: schools, families, nature and society.