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Author Pulimeno M., Piscitelli P., Colazzo S.
Title Children’s literature to promote students’ global development and wellbeing
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Pulimeno M., Piscitelli P., Colazzo S.; Children’s literature to promote students’ global development and wellbeing ;Health Promotion Perspectives vol:10 issue: 1.0 page:13.0

Link to article https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85082965380&doi=10.15171%2fhpp.2020.05&partnerID=40&md5=e20d8580c0ccc525e3549ddecd33e887
Abstract Background: Tales were transmitted from one generation to another, enriching young people with values, beliefs, imagination and creativity. Children’s literature still plays a crucial part in education as it provides knowledge and entertainment, representing a typical example of “edutainment”. In this paper, we carried out a review to examine pedagogic, didactic and psychological/therapeutic dimensions of children’s literature, with the aim of highlighting its role in promoting students’ holistic development and wellbeing. Methods: We have searched for original articles (from 1960s to 2019), by using the following keywords: “fairytales” or “fairy tales” or “folktales” or “fables” AND “education” or “development” or “learning” or “teaching” or “school” or “curriculum” or “classroom” AND “children” or “child” or “kids” or “childhood” AND “health” or “wellbeing”. Results: We found 17 studies concerning pedagogic aspect of children literature, while 21 and 17 studies were selected for didactic and therapeutic dimensions, respectively. From a pedagogic point of view, tales convey basic values useful for children lives. In a didactic perspective, properly chosen storybooks represent a valuable resource for school activities, improving students’ language skills and building up a friendly/respectful classroom environment. Children stories are also used by health professionals for therapeutic purposes (bibliotherapy) to prevent unhealthy habits and addictions, or address psychosomatic disorders. Finally, storybooks and web-based/digital stories can be an effective vehicle for health contents, to encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyles among schoolchildren. Conclusion: Children’s literature and storytelling could be helpful in promoting students’ global development and wellbeing, when included in school curricular activities. © 2020 The Author(s).


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In a didactic perspective, properly chosen storybooks represent a valuable resource for school activities, improving students language skills and building up a friendly/respectful classroom environment. .
Conclusion: Childrens literature and storytelling could be helpful in promoting students global development and wellbeing, when included in school curricular activities. .
Understanding the principles and practices of bibliotherapy is essential for teachers and educators, working with children, who may take benefit from the exposure to reading materials related to their specific problems. .
Implications for practice This review indicates that childrens literature not only presents a strong pedagogical and didactic value, but it can also generate benefits for global development and wellbeing of young people. .
Finally, it can be said that storytelling activities (including readers theatre) in school setting represent innovative didactic experiences, capable to build up also health knowledge and promote students global wellbeing. .
Learning experiences carried out in a friendly school environment generate improvement of emotional health and better academic achievements8,110-116 A properly chosen book stimulates childrens power of observation, reason, memory and imagination, broadening the range of experiences, compelling the readers to reflect on their behaviours, and find out possible solutions to their troubles while providing entertainment. .
In this perspective, the use of childrens literature to convey health contents and promote wellbeing in school children might represent an interesting instrument to foster collective health..
As emphasized by the UNESCOs Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003, folktales play a dynamic role in bringing people closer together, thus ensuring knowledge exchange among different cultures and increasing the respect for others in a tolerant peaceful way. .
In this paper, we carried out a review to examine pedagogic, didactic and psychological/therapeutic dimensions of childrens literature, with the aim of highlighting its role in promoting students holistic development and wellbeing. .
Conclusion Childrens literature offers young people the possibility to acquire a system of values (educational role), to be engaged in motivating learning activities (didactic aspect), and to deal with inner conflicts and life difficulties (psychological value). .
Childrens literature still plays a crucial part in education as it provides knowledge and entertainment, representing a typical example of edutainment. .