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The Bible was referred to as a scholastic “knowledge bomb” by former Minister Tullio De Mauro in an interview with Alberto Bobbio published on Famiglia Cristiana (n. 36 - 10 September 2000).
[...] Mr. Minister, what would you like to do in your last days as plenipotentiary? “What would I do? I’d assign the Bible as a textbook.” That’s interesting, coming from a “Communist” ...
”From a didactic point of view, the Bible is a knowledge bomb. It is impossible to under stand our history or art without knowing the Bible.”
Today’s issue of the Corriere della Sera once again addresses the opposite stance in an interview with Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini. (Read the Article – in Italian)
A few years ago, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale developed a case study on this issue entitled Bibbia Educational. Read about it here: Bibbia Educational: multimedia paths amongst culture and religion for a multi-disciplinary didactics
The case study was published in Innovation in the Schools of Rome edited by Alfonso Molina and Ilaria Falcetta.
