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A Selection of Geological Tours for Promoting the Italian Geological Heritage in the Secondary Schools

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Twenty Italian geological tours have been selected and studied for creating a didactic multimedia product devoted to secondary schools. The aim is to enhance the knowledge of the Italian geological heritage, starting from teachers and students, through the proposal of virtual geological tours. Particular attention has been given both to the relevance of Earth Sciences in everyday life and to the multidisciplinary topics proposed, having care of such aspects as the use of the land and the prevention of natural resources from degradation. An emotional approach has been applied because emotions are essential to stimulate curiosity and to build affection towards a territory, for raising the awareness of the value of the geological heritage. The project required collaboration among researchers, professionals, associations, and institutions involved in studying, protecting, and promoting the Italian geological heritage. Moreover, a further collaboration with teachers and students is foreseen, in order to test the effectiveness of the product in the teaching/learning process. The feedback collected will be useful for realizing a new multimedia product on the geosites of the Piemonte Region, as an output of the multidisciplinary PROactive management of GEOlogical heritage in the Piemonte region (PROGEO-Piemonte) research project.

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The research is supported by funds of the Compagnia di San Paolo assigned in 2011 to Torino University (responsible Marco Giardino) for the project “PROactive management of GEOlogical heritage in the Piemonte Region: innovative methods and functional guidelines for promoting geodiversity knowledge and supporting geoconservation activities (PROGEOPiemonte)”. We are grateful to the scholar publishing house SEI (www.seieditrice.com), as well as to people that collaborated with us in the editing of the geological tours. In particular, we dedicate this work to the memory of Gilberto Bazzoli, a young geoscientist who believed in this educational project and in the related didactic research.

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    Alessandra Magagna, Elena Ferrero, Marco Giardino, Francesca Lozar & Luigi Perotti

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Magagna, A., Ferrero, E., Giardino, M. et al. A Selection of Geological Tours for Promoting the Italian Geological Heritage in the Secondary Schools. Geoheritage 5, 265–273 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-013-0087-3

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