Search results for "Cartoons"

The American nuclear family in the TV series "The Simpsons"

1999

MIND, BRAIN AND MEDIA EDUCATION. A Research Project on Cartoons with Teachers and University Students

2017

The paper proposes a reflection on the educational dimension of cartoons from the double point of view of Media Education and Neuroeducation. Cartoons are either a means to highlight the educational potential of the fictional fruition practice and an activator memory, attention, emotion and perception which are at the basis of cognition and learning. This contribution describes an education research carried out in the A.Y. 2015/2016 with 12 in-service teachers and 198 university students attending the course of Primary Education Sciences at the University of Palermo. They both experienced a media education training methodology mediated by the use of cartoons

Cartoons di qualità nella prima infanzia. I bambini e la media education

2014

I bambini, già dall’infanzia, amano e utilizzano i media. È utile, quindi, educarli ad un uso corretto dei prodotti mediali al fine di insegnare loro a comprenderne il linguaggio e valutarne i contenuti in maniera autonoma e responsabile. I media, pur avendo una loro maggiore o minore predisposizione a determinate valenze educative, sono degli strumenti, delle opportunità, la cui significatività e la cui pregnanza educativa dipende, in larga misura, dal modo in cui essi vengono usati. La scuola è chiamata ad assolvere l’importante compito di promuovere negli alunni le competenze necessarie per divenire fruitori ed interlocutori attivi dei media: entra qui in gioco la media education. Promuo…

Didáctica (lengua y literatura)

2012

El estudio de los dibujos animados parece cada vez más importante para determinar la construcción de la competencia literaria de niños y jóvenes. En el caso que nos ocupa vemos como la saga de las películas de Shrek contiene una gran cantidad de alusiones literarias, tanto relacionadas con las fuentes folklóricas, como con otras fuentes más actuales. La combinación de las referencias, junto con el juego de tipo literario que se ofrece, sobre todo a través de la intertextualidad, convierte a Shrek en una obra de obligada referencia. L'analyse de la bande dessinée semble être de plus en plus importante dans la détermination de la construction de la compétence littéraire des enfants et des jeu…

Representation of physical activity domains and sedentary behaviors across categories of gender and disability in children’s TV cartoons

2018

Television (TV) cartoons could reflect and shape social values about children’s health-related behaviors. The main aim of this study is to analyze the portrayal of physical activity (PA) domains in the most popular Spanish children’s television (TV) cartoons. It is performed a content analysis of each scene following a coding scheme. The sample selected included the five most popular children’s TV cartoons for the 2013-2014 period in Spain. Our results show a large gap between the modest representation of different PA domains compared to the overwhelming depiction of sedentary behaviors. We do not find evidence of males and females participating equally in a variety of PA domains, and we fa…

Assessment of Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Children's Emerging Phonological Awareness in a Computer Animation Context

2003

Four computer-animated tasks were created to analyze the underlying structure of emerging phonological awareness at 3.5 years of age and to explore the factors that influence children's ( N = 91) performance on the tasks. Our findings indicated that already at this young age, children are able to master tasks demanding identification, blending, and continuation of phonological units when the tasks are presented in a motivating assessment context. In line with earlier research, children showed higher mastery in dealing with words and syllables than in dealing with phonemes. Targets in the initial position of a word were easier for children to identify than those in the final position. Our an…

Le storie “ben formate” per bambini: il modello di Stein e Glenn al video

2016

La narrazione contribuisce fin dall’infanzia alla costruzione della identità personale e culturale della persona. La fruizione della narrativa chiama infatti in causa non solo le conoscenze di base del bambino (relative al linguaggio, al mondo, alle azioni umane) ma anche alle concezioni del mondo e del sé che possiede. Gli studi sui bambini di età prescolare hanno ampiamente sottolineato come la narrazione costituisca una strada privilegiata affinché il bambino possa entrare precocemente in contatto con la lingua scritta e ricavarne insieme piacere e competenza (Catarsi, 2001, p. 48). La narrazione è una delle esperienze che ha un ruolo rilevante nell’espressione dell’immaginazione e dei v…

Peppa Pig

2014

Peppa Pig è la regina delle serie tv rivolte per prima infanzia. Le sue puntate sono trasmesse in tv più di cinquanta volte al giorno da Rai YoYo e altri canali tv. Rappresentano un intrattenimento immancabile e, per certi versi, ineludibile per i piccoli. Il successo di Peppa Pig supera gli argini della programmazione televisiva ed è diventato fenomeno di costume, proliferando nei media più diversi (cinema, tv, internet e quant’altro). Estende anche il potere di fascinazione al mondo delle merci: Peppa si vende in ogni forma e modo, dai quaderni alle magliette, dai pupazzi ai gadget portatili. Peppa è diventata una metafora dei nostri tempi. Ma cosa davvero ci chiede la simpatica maialina …

Discorso sul metodo di Peppa Pig

2022

This article goes through the events and the theoretical problems raised by the publication of a Semiotic essay that the author has dedicated to the analysis of Peppa Pig, a popular TV series targeted to early-childhood. Assuming a situated point of view, it chooses to dramatize the position of the researcher towards the complexity as represented by the emergence of the “wilderness” of the text to analyze. Consequently, this article aims at enlightening the strategies actually followed by the author in facing this complexity. What format and style to choose in the writing process? How to identify the limits of the text? How to evaluate the eventuality that inspired the analytical curiosity …

Narrare con il COVID19. Storie di qualità per i bambini della prima infanzia

2020

This contribution aims to offer a reflection on storytelling in early childhood. It plays a fundamental role in training and development of the person, especially as far as emotion is concerned, as it constitutes an attempt to translate part of one's inner world into words, thanks to the aid of a literary genre that allows one to represent and socialize it in culturally defined ways. The training process is always peculiarly narrative: one tells and everyone expresses himself; the training process is intrinsically relational and in this very relationality the negotiation of one's self with that of others is an element of vital importance. In this sense, storytelling can be considered valid …