Pensare (con) le narrazioni audiovisive: l’incontro tra Philosophy for Children e media per una ricerca dell’altro

Nowadays, the audiovisual media play a prominent role; having become the dominant cultural paradigm, they must be examined and problematized. Given their increasing fruition by children, schools have a strategic role in supporting and highlighting students’ protagonism in the use of this language. Why is a critical approach to audiovisual media so important? How to support the active role of pupils? How to make media products an opportunity for an authentic discovery of the other? By emphasising the urgency of promoting reflexive, intercultural and decolonial attitudes that question the dominant (audiovisual) discourses, this theoretical paper proposes Philosophy for Children as a pedagogical tool to develop multimodal and complex thinking with dialogue about and through words, images, sounds, animations… Thus, audiovisual narratives become an object of analysis and a communicative-expressive tool, with positive effects on creative production and on a broader and more integrated understanding of issues such as justice, freedom, truth...