I bambini e le bambine abbracciano il mare attraverso la narrazione di Miyazaki

Children embrace the sea through Miyazaki’s narration. The contribution below aims to reflect on the role that cinematographic materials can play in the educational context and their validity in promoting knowledge and critical reflection on marine spaces in students, encouraging the adoption of an attitude of Ocean Citizenship. In particular, animated films were considered, a cultural product, popular and appreciated by young students, capable of appealing to the affective-emotional channel, using a language that is easy to understand, which encourages identification with the protagonists, allowing students to relate to the spaces represented through cognitive and affective intelligence. The example on which we will focus will be the animated feature film Ponyo on the Cliff by director Hayao Miyazaki.