GIANNI RODARI AND CHILDREN’S CREATIVITY IN THE SOVIET UNION

Abstract

In 1979 Gianni Rodari undertook a journey in Russia to discover how they lived, played and studied the Russian children. The trip was part of a project that included the publication of a book with the title «Games in USSR». Because of his death have been published only a few notes of the journey, and from them shines out the method of work of Rodari already exposed in his only book theoretical «Grammar of fantasy». Rodari was convinced that, next to logic, teachers should develop in children the imagination, as it is the fundamental basis of the creative capacity of the human being. The Russians were particularly sensitive to the ideas of Gianni Rodari, and it was precisely in Russia, where Rodari claimed success even before that in Italy.