Attenzione ed esperienza estetica nella comunicazione didattica Indagini empirico-sperimentali condotte sul campo: principali risultati

The general objective of this experimentation concerns the study of the effect of the didactic intervention oriented towards the artistic experience, on the levels of attention and positive emotional involvement (aesthetic emotion) of the students belonging to the classes where the teachers thus formed work; this in comparison with parallel classes in which such innovative teaching is not yet applied and which therefore act as control classes. A platform has been developed for the teacher training, which has allowed the use of artistic materials (artistic videos and virtual museum visits of visual works) as integration and support of curricular contents. Moreover, illustrated books, art books, illustrated and interactive e-books, dedicated apps have been introduced in the school context. The volunteer teachers are involved in the 2019/2020 school year, in 4 primary school classes and 4 secondary school classes. Naturally, the respective control classes were also set up where regular didactic activity was carried out without specific training of the respective teachers, who will always be able to access in the following school year. This aesthetic enrichment of the teaching message has significantly favored the attentional processes and the positive emotional involvement of the learners, functional to learning.