MIND, BRAIN AND MEDIA EDUCATION. A Research Project on Cartoons with Teachers and University Students

Abstract

The paper proposes a reflection on the educational dimension of cartoons from the double point of view of Media Education and Neuroeducation. Cartoons are either a means to highlight the educational potential of the fictional fruition practice and an activator memory, attention, emotion and perception which are at the basis of cognition and learning. This contribution describes an education research carried out in the A.Y. 2015/2016 with 12 in-service teachers and 198 university students attending the course of Primary Education Sciences at the University of Palermo. They both experienced a media education training methodology mediated by the use of cartoons