The Italian piazza is the centre of community for Italian cities, towns and villages. How people connect in the piazza, and have done over centuries, is key to understanding Italian culture and language use.
As I began planning a teaching unit for Primary, Stage 3, I wanted to design lessons and activities for my students to learn not just the vocabulary associated with the piazza – the shops, the buildings, the amenities - or even the conversations they may have there. I wanted them to go deeper, to think about what we can learn from the piazza. How we frame learning will shape what students imagine they are doing. Is their expectation that they are learning a language simply to accumulate knowledge and become proficient at useful phrases? Or can we invite them to imagine a purpose beyond themselves? In this case, to consider how we connect with others, in order to better understand and meet the human need for connection and community.
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