La creatività. Percorsi d’invenzione 20-22 settembre 2007 Environmental Education and...

La creatività. Percorsi d’invenzione settembre 2007 Participants 37 students (two second year calsses). All pupils were involved by employing the same ways activities. Entry situation analysis Participants were asked to draw their favourite places, so that the peculiar coordinates of the learning-teaching process were set by analytically addressing pupils’ specific interests. The drawing output of exploratory meetings was examined, providing data which were processed by means of Atlas.ti software Output1.ppt. Output1.ppt Several drawings as well as verbal explanations pointed out the children’s interest and learning curiosity regarding water-related topics. In this instance, water was viewed as a powerful metaphor of the need to be again conversant with the planet by imagining it anew. Water represented the starting point for an educational plan which could enable pupils to acquire new modes of social interaction based on critical reflection and democratic values.