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Activity B)
Materials
✓ Music, lyrics (Coldplay-U2)
✓ Video-cartoon
✓ Colours and drawings
Methods
We chose some activities from the philosophical theory called “Philosophia Ludens” , according to the studies of
Prof Annalisa Caputo, who studied the interaction between games and philosophy, between reality and thought.
The group’s games included:
✓ -blind paths through obstacles,
✓ -dramatization,
✓ -trust games which interested students and helped building the group.
This kind of approach suggests a non verbal way to communicate focusing on creativity and self-expression in
order to prevent antisocial behaviours in youngsters.
Activity C)
Materials and methods
We prepared two surveys, for students and adults, in order to make them to reflect on the real meaning of the
term Happiness; the main goal was to discover what Happiness actually means to youngsters and adults and
how this meaning changes through the years.
The survey results have been the starting point for a deep reflection on the search of self development.
Here the links to the surveys and their results:
https://forms.gle/ccnyggC4Me9jBDYt9 (students)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DKo5_H46NZhuXYWkcyXQDH3wERiSBtlf/view?usp=sharing (result)
https://forms.gle/5N2tMksHUS8RWBqz6 (adults)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1US8Hc3-f-9Z1ze_4zM9hwazIWnM404lW/view?usp=sharing (result)
Here the link to the video on workshop: https://youtu.be/yLK7rQkyiA8
The A), B) , C) activities were of a great interest to students and teachers: both of them participated with genuine
involvement and passion.
3)Philosophical Debate
Teacher: Oriana Murana
After the preliminary discussion on the meaning of Happiness, we organised a workshop on Happiness, where
students could compare their modern idea of happiness to those ones expressed during the European history .
In fact, many philosophers asked themselves about life, hopes, happiness. Questions like “Are we able to achieve
happiness in this life? , What is actually happiness?, a moment?, love?, a smile?, friendship?” engaged their smart
minds for ages. Through the centuries they sent us their answers we can be inspired by.
Some weeks before this workshop, the students received a dossier (see the attachment 2)with some
philosophers’ thoughts. For this activity, we chose specifically 4 of them: