Children as Investigators of Brunerian "Possible Worlds". The Role of Narrative Scenarios in children's Argumentative Thinking.

Referring to the notion of "possible worlds", the paper aims to investigate an intriguing aspect of children's thinking: the function that play narrative scenarios in sharing with other partners (peers and adults) the child's understanding of the physical and social reality. The idea of possible worlds to which this work relates, can be considered in some way as the legacy of Piaget's pioneering research on symbolic thinking, currently referred in Harris's perspective as "work of imagination". Over the past few decades now, the notion of possible worlds has supported a new representation of the child's thinking that is based on the idea that imagination allows children to explore alternative and multiple versions of reality.