Graphos. international journal of paedagogy and didactics of writing

Call deadline: September 30, 2026

The new National Guidelines for the Curriculum - Kindergarten and First Cycle of Education (2025), which will come into force in the school year 2026/2027, devote ample space to writing, and specifically to cursive. They highlight its importance for the development of motor, perceptive, and cognitive skills, as well as reasoning and thought processes, aiming for the completion of the acquisition of its instrumental function—and thus the automation of the graphic gesture—by the end of the third grade of primary school.

This issue of Graphos therefore aims to present the most current updates on the pedagogy, didactics, and learning problems of writing, also in relation to the development of critical thinking.