Educare la mente aperta: riflessioni sull’uso didattico della dissonanza cognitiva
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https://doi.org/10.15160/2038-1034/2408Keywords:
cognitive dissonance, cognitive conflict, social-cognitive conflict, open mindedness, critical thinkingAbstract
This paper is a reflection on the potential of teaching methodologies that focus on the phenomenon of dissonance or cognitive conflict. In a multicultural and increasingly polarized society, the capacity to question one's own beliefs and behaviors is certainly one of the skills that the educational system should promote, and the development of this competence is closely related to the effective control of the experience of dissonance originated by new information. Starting from a brief reconstruction of the pedagogical and psychological licterature on the subject, I will try to analyze the complexity of the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance by proposing an explanation of the contradictory results of empirical reserch, identiying as the main problematic nodes the emotional regulation of conflict and the role of the teacher as a facilitator of the process of conceptual change.
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