TITLE:
“Symbolic Mediation” in Alphabetical Processes: Cultural Heritages, Territories and Multiliteracies
AUTHORS:
Antonella Nuzzaci
KEYWORDS:
Culture, Use of Cultural Goods, Cultural Heritage, Museum, Literacy, Multiliteracies, Learning, Teaching
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.6,
June
30,
2020
ABSTRACT: The
contribution addresses the problem of the relationship between patrimonies,
territories, multiliteracies. In it, culture is basically understood as a
process of symbolic elaboration of stimuli, objects and cultural experiences
that contribute to building the cultural, alphabetic and identity profile of
the individual, as well as his personal and social experience. The cultural
heritage, as a diversified set of forms, refers to a symbolic universe that
must be made accessible to everyone through special mediation tools, which can
give continuity and meaning to the experiences of use. The article reflects on
how it is possible to construct meanings starting from the symbolic elaboration
that the individual puts in place and from the experiences in which he is
immersed. The experience of use is in fact an opportunity that must be
guaranteed to everyone, since it is the foundation of the interpretative
universe that serves to read reality in depth. It is a question here of the
importance for the individual of accessing a symbolic universe through which he
interprets and relates to the world and the various cultural forms. At a time
when literacy processes have widened their boundaries becoming multiple
(multilteracies), there is a specific need for a pedagogy of the heritage that
knows how to correspond to the emerging alphabetic needs typical of a society
in transformation and increasingly technological and which looks to cultural
and museum heritage as tools to access the profound meaning that culture
expresses.