Nowadays audiovisual aids are often used merely for spectacular purposes. Even television programmes scheduled by broadcast programming on issues of high civil or cultural calibre are supposed to follow the rule of showbiz which, as everybody knows, thus comes to be the most important message itself.
Teachers may also suggest a different use of those aids, which may allow students to attend lessons delivered by scholars that they are unlikely to meet easily. The purpose of this series is precisely to give students this opportunity.
Audiovisual aids also allow to remove - or at least to cut – space-time bounds as well as to make scholars and students get in touch with each other without necessarily use written texts.
This series's publications are recorded lessons on both Italian and foreign literary authors, subjects and texts.
The selected scholars' skills guarantee the quality of their lessons, which have been chosen also on the basis of the cultural and educational requirements of today's school.
The lessons' duration ranges from approximately forty to eighty minutes each and their methodological approach is variable as well; such a variety is a cultural enrichment for young students too.
The lessons are supplemented with images that haven't been chosen with embellishing or documentary purposes but as additional, organic and extremely accurate documentation concerning the arguments made. Sometimes, the use of simple animation in the texts studied helps to display the theories supported by the speaker more promptly.
Obviously the aim of lessons isn't to replace the teachers' classroom activity, yet they can supplement it and enrich it both by being used to introduce certain subjects – that teachers themselves may then investigate thoroughly – and by adding further perspectives on a subject that has already been dealt with. Anyhow, the students' approach to such media which are so familiar to them may kindle their interest in the subjects studied and improve their concentration.