Primary teacher education

What a picture is, how you can do it, why it is important: course's goal is to present a nucleus of themes, languages and artistic techniques so to bring children closer to nature and to pictures' meaning and relational use, as tools of expression and communication. The acquired skills will be about the ability of arousing in children the attitude to observation of variety of natural and artificial forms, of colours in their results on emotions, and of space in its variation; it will be also encouraged and directed personal expression and the comparison with others' creations. The acquired cross skills will be about the ability of cooperating to reading of pictures on the basis of narrative and evocative points, and the ability of realizing and transforming pictures and objects on the basis of creative points, deriving both from observation of the surrounding environment and from proposed examples. These activities will allow to concretely apply theories and practices of creativity, such as, for example, those of Bruno Munari. Students will be encouraged to plan - individually or as a group - simulations of activity on themes from time to time examined in depth: colour, space, materials, and details, taking into account children's progressive development of skills and abilities. Thanks to a deep examination of theoretical and practical aspects on the theme - also through external visits to museums and workshops of museum-based education - students will be able to autonomously continue their studies, planning original and reasoned educational paths.