Beauty will save the world.... If we can grasp it

Journal title EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Author/s Alessia Rosa, Michela Bongiorno
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/2
Language Italian Pages 8 P. 97-104 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess2-2023oa16417
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The contribution proposes a reflection on the current need and urgency to educate to beauty to stimulate a set of soft skills, functional to a global and cultural growth of the human being. This urgency is increasingly shared by the school that proposes interesting projects of education to beauty through different actions and timing. Kindergarten is undoubtedly the context where these experiences are mostly spread through multiple strategies and diverse paths. This article summarises some of the experiences gathered through a survey aimed at understanding how creativity was stimulated in kindergarten. Within this macro-theme, the narratives of teachers related to beauty education have opened new and interesting areas of reflection and research. 

Keywords: ; Beauty; Kindergarten; Educating children to beauty

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Alessia Rosa, Michela Bongiorno, La bellezza salverà il mondo... Se sapremo coglierla in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 2/2023, pp 97-104, DOI: 10.3280/ess2-2023oa16417