Turtles, fairy tales and pen-friends - Enhancing socialisation, self-reliance and creativity in an Italian primary school.

Rossella Magli (1)

1 Laboratoire d'Anthropologie de la Communication

The following is the story of a journey undertaken in the first months of 1997 in a small primary school in the village of Panico, 20 kilometres south of Bologna, in Italy. It is a very modern story, with a beginning, and with an open end. The story stops when the traveller has to abandon her journey, so that she can tell others the story of her journey. Actually, the story is not even a story, but an impressionistic journal seeking to capture the everchanging movements of a complex universe. Its subjectivity may even make it resemble to fiction more than to a scientific report. But that is a matter of conventions. The story is true. And like in most fictions telling a true story, there is a postface. A postface usually aims at reassuring the audience that the story ended the way it should: the good lived happily ever after and the evil was defeated. Or, in more social awareness raising stories, it may aim at reinforcing the general feeling induced by the narration, be it positive or negative. Neither is the case in this story. You will see why.

Mots clés: anthropology of communication; ethnography

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain

Rossella Magli. Turtles, fairy tales and pen-friends - Enhancing socialisation, self-reliance and creativity in an Italian primary school.. 1997. ⟨hal-00190252⟩