Children’s Literature and Technology to Promote Motivation and Inclusion in Nursery Schools. The Case Study of Babalibri’s Storie da Ascoltare

«Happily, they embraced each other»: Contributing to the Third Mission with stories to include and create community? A review of experiences

“…In other works (Ascenzi, Girotti, 2023a;Ascenzi, Girotti, 2023b), we investigated how the different typologies of the book object have contributed to creating different degrees of participation and inclusion; we reiterate it in this work while focusing, however, on how they have also favoured the creation of connections and inclusive communities spread across the territory, in a dialogue between the University and other local and non-local actors involved. In fact, in all the cases seen, we managed to observe increased participation and inclusion of children of non-Italian origin, children with language difficulties or, again, elderly people, thus allowing, in the last case, the «systematic transfer of knowledge, skills, competences, norms and values between generations» (Patricio, Osorio, 2016, p.85).…”