RAGIONARE “A FUMETTI”: DAI CONCETTI SCIENTIFICI AI RACCONTI E VICEVERSA

Francesca Ferrucci

doi:10.54103/2037-3597/30423

Authors

Francesca Ferrucci Sapienza Università di Roma https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5897-3591

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-3597/30423

Abstract

Thinking in comics: from scientific concepts to stories (and vice versa)

The paper deals with a particular form of mediation: that between scientific discourse, tending towards abstractness and generality, and narrative thought, anchored to the experience of objects, people and events in concrete situations, ordered according to a temporal succession. The learning of technical-specialist terminologies is addressed, especially in L1, also from a cognitive perspective. After a summary of the notion of mediation, as it has evolved in theoretical reflection at a European level, paragraph 2 recalls the projects that, in recent years, have practiced innovative scientific communication, conveying the explanatory models of different disciplines with the medium of comics. Paragraph 3, starting from the analysis of some limits of previous initiatives, discusses the difficulties inherent in this mediation and formulates the hypothesis according to which a further didactic potential is expressed in involving the learner as a mediator, therefore co-constructor of meanings. Finally, paragraphs 4 and 5 are dedicated to an experimental task carried out at Sapienza University of Rome, in which 144 respondents measured themselves against this methodological hypothesis. The implicit thread is Thesis XII, which provides the theoretical framework within which to place technical-specialist terminologies as one of the most challenging points in the development of individual vocabulary.

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