The educational power of poetry

This short paper is intented to present the structure and main outcomes of an educational project realized in some primary schools in the municipal district of Arezzo (Tuscany, Italy). More specifically, the project in question, entitled “The magic of poetry”, aimed to actualize a laboratory proposal of education to poetry and through poetry, in particular by exploiting the interplay between three figures of speech (simile, metaphor, oxymoron) and three emotions connected with them (happiness, anger, fear). The project involved children attending the second and fifth grade of six primary schools, both located in the city center and in the outskirts. Therefore, the first part of this article synthetically describes the basic framework, the contents, the activities, the organizational modalities and the educational objectives of the project; while the second part shows the obtained results as they ensue from direct observation, from students’opinions, and from a qualitative survey (open ended questionnaire) which implicated teachers. ULTERIORI INFORMAZIONI Atti della Conferenza internazionale “Perspectives of a Higher Quality Level of the Training of Specialists for Early Education and Primary Schooling (PERFORMER)”. Sede della Conferenza: Università “Transilvania” di Brasov (Romania). Data della Conferenza: 22 giugno 2014. La rivista Educatia Plus - Journal Plus Education ha il seguente coverage e indexing: CNCSIS classification B+ category, Ulrich's, IndexCopernicus, EBSCO, DOAJ, CEEOL, CrossReff, WorldCat.org. Circa la classificazione della rivista in fascia B+ si specifica quanto di seguito: le riviste scientifiche romene sono distinte (in ordine decrescente), dalll'organo consultivo (CNCSIS) del Ministero romeno dell’Educazione, della Ricerca scientifica, della Gioventù e dello Sport in: fascia A (riviste con ISI); fascia B+ (riviste indicizzate in banche date internazionali); fascia B (riviste con “punteggi di riconoscimento”); fascia C (riviste senza “punteggi di riconoscimento”); fascia D (riviste sottoposte all’“attenzione” del CNCSIS).