The human being needs the simultaneous collaboration of both body and mind in order to reach a balanced situation, but this requires a conscious and controlled commitment. The learning of reading, writing, and counting are complex learning processes that require strong commitment in the whole. In this study writing, in particular, is taken into account. When this is accomplished, the students are strongly motivated and gratified as they realize that a simple movement that accompanies an object (e.g. pencil) can produce a sign that acquires value and meaning. However, this path is not easy: other forms of expression beyond the body can help, for instance: music. During the learning of writing, if we incorporate these two constants, movement and music, the goal will be achieved more easily, perhaps it will be fun too! In the first part, a brief theoretical excursion to the child's approach to pregraphism, a bibliographic research on the international updated scientific research database on the subject, followed in the second part by an experimental research conducted at the Kindergarten and Primary School of an Italian Comprehensive Institute, reporting the results obtained with relative statistical analysis of the data.

The importance of the body in writing

Valentini, Manuela
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2018

Abstract

The human being needs the simultaneous collaboration of both body and mind in order to reach a balanced situation, but this requires a conscious and controlled commitment. The learning of reading, writing, and counting are complex learning processes that require strong commitment in the whole. In this study writing, in particular, is taken into account. When this is accomplished, the students are strongly motivated and gratified as they realize that a simple movement that accompanies an object (e.g. pencil) can produce a sign that acquires value and meaning. However, this path is not easy: other forms of expression beyond the body can help, for instance: music. During the learning of writing, if we incorporate these two constants, movement and music, the goal will be achieved more easily, perhaps it will be fun too! In the first part, a brief theoretical excursion to the child's approach to pregraphism, a bibliographic research on the international updated scientific research database on the subject, followed in the second part by an experimental research conducted at the Kindergarten and Primary School of an Italian Comprehensive Institute, reporting the results obtained with relative statistical analysis of the data.
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