The aim of the course is to discuss / negotiate aspects of the relationship between children and the "adultworld" (social and physical), which emerge within the communication processes mediated by digital media.
The course’s main theoretical line will be pragmatic. In other words, given the central assumption that the “unit of reality” is composed of relationships, “childhood” will be approached as an emerging social category, with reference to the complex dynamics of young people’s symbolic manipulation, with “media literacy“considered as a secondary literacy, the medias’ aesthetics an “aesthetic experience” and culture an emerging “worldview”.
On a teaching level, an effort will be made to ensure that these ideas do not remain “inert”. That is, an effort to cultivate, within the course, the Art of using knowledge.
Evaluatively, the learning outcomes both of the trainees and the teachers will be identified a posteriori, from the aspects of the educational dynamics that will eventually prevail, as well as from the locally produced artefacts.