L’educazione letteraria basata sul luogo: definizione, stato dell’arte e orizzonti di ricerca

This paper aims to define place-based literary education, outline its current state of the art, and identify its epistemic horizons. By emphasizing the interaction between the text, the student/reader, and the place of reading, place-based literary education emerges as a field of research whose objective is to investigate the encounter between reading and writing practices and the places where they take place, in an attempt to enhance both the educational experiences aimed at training the free and competent readers of tomorrow and the wide variety of educational initiatives that use the tools of literature to achieve their specific goals. This discussion is supported by the conviction that theoretical reflections, empirical research, analyses of educational experiences, teacher training, and the development of teaching tools available to teachers can support the existence of place-based literary education as a field of study and a teaching model that promote not only the exercise of literary practices and environmental awareness, but also the development of soft skills that are increasingly valuable for the peaceful coexistence of humanity on this planet, the only one we have.