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four strands within animation in italy
Lorenz (1994: 101) details four key strands within Italian animation
(although these can also be seen, to some extent, within French approaches):
creative-expressive animation. These use theatre and play as means of
self-expression with community groups, children and people with special
learning needs.
socio-cultural animation. This has links to with the adult and
community education movement and relates to communities and aims at
'promoting the development of abilities of people and groups to
participate in and to manage the social and political reality in which
they live. It is education as liberation which makes use of community
action as well as of psycho-social methods to advance the expressive
capacities of people' (Pollo 1991: 12)
cultural animation. This is more an 'educational-didactive' approach
applicable to schools and after-school activities. It views education
mainly as socialization.
leisure-time animation. This area is differentiated between
initiatives relating to pre-school and school-children such as adventure
playgrounds, toy libraries, outdoor activity centres, play in hospitals
and in treatment centres, and organized sports activities, in which the
commercial sector is also strongly present in the form of outdoor pursuit
centres and activity holidays.
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