Promoting gender education pathways requires embracing the notion that girls and boys, young women and young men, are competent social actors who do not passively absorb the influences of their social context but are instead capable of reworking, deconstructing, and critically analyzing them. This is contingent on providing them with the necessary educational and cultural tools to undertake this sophisticated process. When learners become co-protagonists and co-constructors of cultural and cognitive processes, new possibilities for cultural change and renewal emerge. In the context of gender education, this means that individuals can continuously renegotiate socially established gender expectations, with each person’s transformation contributing to shifting boundaries and opening new spaces for reimagining norms. Children’s literature is a valuable and inexhaustible resource for identity formation, social initiation, and the development of individual and collective imagination. It thus represents a powerful tool for educating new generations of girls and boys to transcend gender boundaries and to position themselves as active participants in a cultural transformation that is already underway, but which must be continually foregrounded and encouraged.
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Chapter Title
Educare a nuovi immaginari e a nuovi linguaggi. I libri per l’infanzia come veicoli di contronarrazioni di genere
Authors
Irene Biemmi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0484-2.10
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Educazione all’uguaglianza di genere ed educazione linguistica
Editors
Elisabetta Jafrancesco, Ivana Fratter, Ida Tucci
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
164
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0484-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0483-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0484-2
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0485-9
Series Title
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
Series ISSN
2704-6249
Series E-ISSN
2704-5870