Perché leggere letteratura con giovani adulti in una scuola professionale?

Abstract

In the curricula for the language of schooling in vocational education, the teaching of literature has almost completely been supplanted by a functional approach to the subject. This choice was made to put more emphasis on vocational reading and writing skills so that students would be better prepared for their future social roles in society and the world of work. Nonetheless, literature understood as a repertoire of narratives that come to us both from the past and the present, is of fundamental importance for the development of reading for pleasure, for helping students to understand various aspects of reality, also the vocational one, and for discovering the richness of possibilities that the language can offer.