La riflessività e il ‘cervello narrante’: un percorso di ricerca con gli studenti universitari

Research on cognition, meta cognitive skills and on how the brain works do not cease to arouse great interest among the scientific com-munity of educational disciplines, especially in relation to the need to integrate, at any educational or training level, the essential component of reflexivity about themselves and about the way to cope with knowledge.Brain-based approaches - with regard to the Brain-gym - and story-telling activities – in particular, Digital Storytelling - brought up the ax-es of the research here described and conducted with 205 students at-tending the degree course in Primary Education Sciences at the Univer-sity of Palermo during the academic year 2015-2016. The validity of the brain-based model was checked thanks to the research process and in order to reinforce students’ reflective skills, narrative competence and critical revision, thus supported by the use of ICT.