Reflection and the "telling brain": a research with university students

Journal title EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES
Author/s Giuseppa Cappuccio, Giuseppa Compagno
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/1 Language Italian
Pages 18 P. 45-62 File size 235 KB
DOI 10.3280/ERP2017-001004
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Research on cognition, meta cognitive skills and on how the brain works do not cease to arouse great interest among the scientific community of educational disciplines, especially in relation to the need to integrate, at any educational or training level, the essential component of reflexivity about themselves and about the way to cope with knowledge. Brain-based approaches - with regard to the Brain-gym - and storytelling activities - in particular, Digital Storytelling - brought up the axes of the research here described and conducted with 205 students attending the degree course in Primary Education Sciences at the University of Palermo during the academic year 2015-2016. The validity of the brain-based model was checked thanks to the research process and in order to reinforce students’ reflective skills, narrative competence and critical revision, thus supported by the use of ICT.

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Giuseppa Cappuccio, Giuseppa Compagno, La riflessività e il ‘cervello narrante’: un percorso di ricerca con gli studenti universitari in "EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES" 1/2017, pp 45-62, DOI: 10.3280/ERP2017-001004