La didactique de la littérature chinoise dans le TFA italien : possibilités et défis dans la définition d’un parcours d’enseignement secondaire

The TFA (Tirocinio Formativo Attivo, «Active Training Internship) is a training and accreditation system for secondary education teachers, established in 2010 by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. In the Chinese TFA, the training focusing on specific teaching methods – including the teaching of Chinese literature – holds a central place: however, the pedagogy of literature is still affected by a number of difficulties. After providing a general account of the TFA system, this paper describes the challenges in the definition of a teaching scheme for Chinese literature, with special reference to the status and function of the teaching of literature in different types of secondary schools, the lack of specific teaching materials, and the definition of corpora, contents, and teaching approaches. The paper goes on to introduce a number of practical experiences – namely the works of TFA (2nd cycle) learners and a handbook drafting project led by a research group of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – in order to provide innovative and useful material for the teaching of Chinese literature in secondary education.