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This paper offers a focus on the scientific initiative dedicated to The memory of papers. The archives and the enhancement of the historical-educational heritage, included in the cultural scenario of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 to promote and spread out a culture of conservation and enhancement of the specific historical-educational heritage in the territory. The Conference therefore proposed to start and bring the first results, in the various Italian territorial realities, of a recognition of places, archives and sources useful for the knowledge and enhancement of a heritage often overlooked and instead a cultural deposit of historical, identity and community value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a brief review of the criticalities and strong points of the historical research on Luigi Bertelli, and based on the latest epistemological and methodological approaches developed in the field of the history of education and children's literature, this contribution intends to explore renewed subjects and new issues related to Vamba's production, as a writer and journalist for children and youth. Starting from the editorial experience of «Il Giornalino della Domenica», to understand the real value of Vamba's influence on the twentieth century periodical press, it is necessary to analyze the development of his educational project. The liberal ideals, typical of the Italian Risorgimento, were the baseline of this comprehensive plan, that aimed to reform the ethical and civil awareness of young bourgeois generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of medical bibliography is considered an exclusive prerogative of research for historians of bibliography, historians of book and libraries but not a matter of interest to medical historians. Actually, it represents a high-level potential research field almost unexplored and underused in medical history and also in didactics. The history of medical bibliography suggests original teaching paths to medical historians with connection to the main theories of medical historical knowledge development. The flourishing medical bibliographies printed between the 16th and 17th-century represent a wide didactic tool to introduce medical students to rare medical books collections. The paper offers a practical sample: the history of theories, preventive remedies and treatments of the plague, explained using the printed medical bibliography of Otto Brunfels (1530) and Johannes Antonides Van der Linden (1662). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the significant experience of Giuseppe Capretz and his professional interest in calligraphy and literature, with particular regard of his necessary relocation after the Gentile Reform. Significant was the role of the journal he founded, «Calligrafia», which became a sort of trade union bulletin for the calligraphy teachers. Capretz and his process of adaptation to the directives of the regime seem to mark a defeat of his subject, but we discover that these also reflect the feeling of an educational action that has its own reasons, that has important content to pass on to future generations, at the cost of sacrifices and renunciations and that are independent from the nature of the taught subject, be it the modest calligraphy or the Italian literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children's literature adaptation research is an interface study between children's literature study and adaptation studies. It has the common characteristics of two relatively marginalized research fields, and also shows distinct interdisciplinary attributes due to its interface nature. In the current situation where literary research is constantly seeking innovation and going in-depth, the interdisciplinarity and corresponding interdisciplinary practices of children's literature adaptation research reflect its cutting-edge research directions, while also mapping out some development trends of literary research as a whole. This paper starts from the theoretical discussion of children's literature adaptation studies, reflects on its conjunction points of education studies (with a special focus), narrative studies, cognitive studies, and digital humanities to scrutinize its interdisciplinary theoretical resources, and attempts to explore how the underlying attributes of children's literature adaptation research combine with interdisciplinary theoretical resources to promote its own development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution aims to present the characteristic elements of Luigi Giussani's pedagogical reflection. The recent publication of three significant works edited by Carmine Di Martino offered a particular suggestion to reconsider the idea of education defined by the founder of the Catholic Movement of Communion and Liberation. In particular, this paper focuses on the transformation of the concept of education in the Western world, and on the relaunching of Christian education. Giussani's educational proposal aims on the one hand to contain efficiency, which today tests the training guidelines and makes traditional education obsolete and, at the same time, is a strong invitation to rediscover what is essential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to reconstruct the long and multifaceted intellectual biography of Mario Alighiero Manacorda (1914-2013). The analysis will focus on the four phases of Manacorda's educational research: the Marxism pedagogy (1960s-1970s), the history of education (1970s-1980s), the relationship between laicity and schooling (1980s-1990s) and the history of sport (2000s). The contribution also attempts to show how Manacorda interprets these four themes in the light of the cultural paradigm of Marxism and in particular through the works of Marx, Engels and Gramsci. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of Albanian children's literature spans a long time. Initially, religious texts of medieval literature were used as such literature in Albanian schools, but pure children's literature was born during the period of Albanian Romanticism. At this time, it was originally written to meet the educational needs of the first Albanian school. However, it was literature that was written by the best authors of Albanian Romanticism and, apart from its function in school, it had all the characteristics of good children's literature. This study deals with these two sides of the first Albanian children's literature, with its artistic level and with the educational role it played in the first Albanian school. From the analysis we have done, we have managed to establish that literature in the first Albanian school played a decisive role in the artistic, cultural and moral formation of Albanian students. Initially, this stems from the fact that the authors who compiled books for the subjects in the first Albanian school, were primarily writers and they could not be separated from literature even when they wrote books on other subjects, making the literature found in books of different subjects and its importance is irreplaceable. The results of the paper have been achieved using thematic, genre and contextual analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to introduce and analyze the results of the international project Connecting History of Education. International networks, scientific production and global dissemination (CHE) (Ref.: PID2019-105328GB-I00), with particular reference to the Mediterranean area and to one of its main topic: inclusion and attention to diversity. From an historical and educational perspective, this research theme has grown tremendously in the last 10-20 years, especially thanks to the work of scientific magazines. The history of special education has long been neglected in the past, but now it is a topical theme both for pedagogy and the history of education. This contribution also intends to explain the bibliometric approach of this project, in relation to the matter, and highlight some particular characteristics, for example, information about the authors, the idiom and the most examined period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the role played by the publisher La Scuola, over the first decade of its history (1904-1913), in the field of early childhood education. The first section offers an analysis of the cultural and educational backdrop against which prominent exponents of the contemporary Catholic movement decided, in 1893, to set up a journal for elementary school teachers, «Scuola Italiana Moderna», and, in 1904, to found the publishing house La Scuola. The second section scrutinises the contents of the journal. This line of research indicates that the Brescia-based editorial group was influenced by the newfound interest in early childhood that characterized the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, beginning in the 1904-1905 school year, «Scuola Italiana Moderna» began to feature a column on the topic of kindergarten education. Such a move reflected the launching, at the beginning of the Giolittian era, of the secular association Unione per le educatrici d'infanzia (Unei) [National Union of Women Infant-School Teachers], and its mouthpiece «La Voce delle maestre d'asilo» [The Voice of Infant-School Teachers], first published in 1904. After illustrating the subject matter of this column over the period spanning 1904 and 1913, the paper proceeds to examine La Scuola's decision in autumn 1913 to launch a dedicated journal for women infant school teachers, «Pro Infantia». The research presented here sheds light on a feature of «Scuola Italiana Moderna» that had not been the focus of any of the numerous existing studies on the journal: namely, the fact that a full ten years prior to the founding of «Pro Infantia», La Scuola had already felt urgently called to participate in the contemporary political and educational debates surrounding the issue of early childhood education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at analysing the repository collected by the University of Florence in the framework of the PRIN «School Memories between Social Perception and Collective Representation (Italy, 1861-2001)». The repository constitutes a pivotal source in defining how scholastic perception changed in Italy throughout late 1940s and 1970s. In particular, it is possible to study the relationship between pupils, society and scholastic institutions: on this regard, the paper highlighted the growing spaces of self-determination and wellness pupils gained after 1968. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These four papers present relevant insights on the recent work Tra mobilitazione giovanile e costruzione dell’identità nazionale. Luigi Bertelli/Vamba scrittore per l’infanzia dall’età giolittiana al primo dopoguerra by Sofia Montecchiani. Starting from different perspectives due to the research interest of each one, the authors offer keys to reading and to understanding useful to the comprehension of the value of the book and to the contextualization of Bertelli’s literary and political work. In particular they highlighted the significant Vamba’s contribution to children’s literature and his important engagement in youth mobilization and in the construction of the Italian identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to investigate public school memory during the fascist regime through school honours. The honour and the associated insignia, the diploma as well as the medal, represent an artefact that in the context of the mass society that connotes Fascist Italy, acquires multiple meanings. Decorations become an instrument aimed at supporting the process of fascisation of the teaching staff, the school system and the Italian extracurricular system. The analysis is conducted on several levels. After the presentation of the forms of honours instituted during the twenty years of Fascism, the analysis dwells on the reports of the commissions set up to evaluate the proposals and celebratory moments for the awarding of the honours with the aim of delving into the models of teacher and schoolmistress conveyed through the awarding of the recognitions to the school personnel, to the people and bodies that distinguished themselves during the twenty years of Fascism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, the Italian educational and school historiography has gone through a fertile season of renewal of themes and methods that has prompted paths of theoretical and methodological reflection on both the sources of historical-educational research and the heritage related to the material culture of schools and education. This paper focuses on the history of the Historical Museum of Education, now MuSEd, its genesis and purpose; in particular, it aims to document the museum project and the educational experiments carried out during the years of Carmela Covato’s direction (2002-2012). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper intends to offer an insight into the history of education and emotions through a reflection on the themes of fear and the uncanny, starting from the interpretative paths traced by Carmela Covato on fear as a pedagogical dispositif. From this perspective, children’s literature – with particular reference to the fairy tale and its rewritings of today – represents, among the narrated pedagogies, an instrument capable of reflecting the symbolic architectures of a time and of a collectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The path to acquiring an identity is complex and not without its problems for girls and boys; it is therefore necessary to avoid the accumulation of absolutely gratuitous and removable obstacles on their formative path, such as those caused by gender restrictions. Contemporary children’s literature today opens up to perspectives of this kind, feeding the imagination of readers with stories that address the gender issue from the perspective of the acquisition of an identity free of stereotypes. As we intend to demonstrate in this paper, an important contribution from this point of view is offered by the studies Carmela Covato has conducted on the relationship between gender and education, offering a careful look at the use of literary sources, among which children’s narratives are rightfully included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the presentation of the latest edition of L’Itinerario pedagogico del marxismo italiano (first edition: 1983) by Carmela Covato, the Author of this paper deepens the peculiar and significant contribution of the Sicilian scholar to the recent renewal and growth of the studies on Marxist pedagogical reflection and on the work of the PCI and the left-wing political area about education and school policy during the post-World War II years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is intended to offer a critical view of the recent book by Vittoria Bosna entitled, La mano che muove la culla del bambino è quella che comanda il mondo. I percorsi educative delle donne in Albania tra XIX e XX secolo. The work, starting from the Albanian history in 19th-20th Centuries, aims to look into two issues: the creation of Albanian national identity and the education for everyone. The article focuses on the figure of Qiriazi sisters as a pioneers of education. Their work allowed the woman's emancipation to improve their training in the school and their role in the society going further the feature of woman trapped into domestic walls. The paper, starting from the pedagogical ideas of Qiriazi sisters, explores the connection between education, school and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to continue the reconstruction of the intellectual and professional biography of the teacher Giovanni Lucaroni, who was increasingly inspired by the activist educational principles and practices promoted by Giuseppe Lombardo Radice in the primary school programs of 1923. Despite the substantial and profound changes in the school, Lucaroni will be able to preserve the «active school» in which he believed. In this paper the analysis of publications, programs and school chronicles, from the 1930s until the advent of democracy, is proposed in order to highlight educational conception and teaching methodology of the teacher who worked for more than fourty years in the primary school of Mogliano, near Macerata. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper collects and summarizes the reports proposed at the fifth national PRIN seminar that the University of Roma Tre organized on 5th November 2021 as part of the scientific activities under the research project of relevant national interest «School Memories between Social Perception and Collective Representation (Italy, 1861-2001)». The initiative aimed to illustrate the state of the art of the project in establishing electronic repertories of school memories; the databases officially presented in this occasion relate to: audiovisual products; video oral testimonies, awards of honour, public memories, art works, illustrations, literary works; school diaries and autobiographies. The seminar, as well as to make a balance of the operational results achieved, has been productive to shed further light on the historiographical category of school memory in view of the end-of-project international conference «The School and its Many Pasts». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the motives and personalities that, at the end of the Giolittian Era, persuaded the Brescia-based publishing house La Scuola of the urgent need to address the challenges then facing the early childhood education sector by founding a dedicated journal. The periodical in question, «Pro Infantia», has never been subjected to systematic and exhaustive analysis. The study presented here investigated the journal's cultural agenda, based on documents held in the General Archive of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (the Salesian Sisters), a religious congregation that played a significant part in the life of the publication. This line of inquiry has brought to light previously unknown aspects of the early stages of «Pro Infantia»'s history and clarified the Salesian Sisters' role during this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the activities promoted between 2019 and 2021 by the research units participating in the research project «School Memories between Social Perception and Collective Representation (Italy, 1861-2001)», which aims to study school memory as a practice of individual remembrance or collective and public commemoration of a common school past through the creation of the web portal www.memoriascolastica.it and eight databases relating to the multiple forms of school memory. The project immediately aims to socialize research results with a broader audience and to experiment with new forms of scientific communication, available free of charge online, according to the open science policy at the center of the new European Framework Programme for research and innovation (2021-2027). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines the main historiographical reasons behind the birth of school archives, which, although often neglected and ignored, represent new pivotal sources for the history of education. With reference to the legislation on this topic, some pioneering experiences regarding the census and recovery of school archives in Emilia Romagna (Italy) are presented, with special attention to the city of Bologna (Italy). Moreover, this contribution sets out to promote the safeguarding of this remarkable educational heritage, which is essential not only for researchers and the history of education, but also for teaching and citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the relationship between the recent development of the History of University and Higher Education in Spain and the urban configuration of Madrid. To be specific, using Hacia el Centenario. La Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid a sus 90 años, a book edited by Carolina Rodríguez López and Jara Muñoz Hernández, this contribution intends to celebrate the centenary of the campus and to reconstruct the leading events that marked its history. The Ciudad Universitaria of Madrid symbolizing a unique academic experience, both as a university campus and as a place of daily lives, which is characterized by numerous services and research centers. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, the issues offered by the book are able to enhance the significant historical memory of this academic institution and to open up to new research perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper collects the reports presented at the third seminar about the important national research project «School Memories between Social Perception and Collective Representation (Italy, 1861-2001)» from scholars from different Italian universities. The seminar has represented the opportunity to reflect on the topic of school and educational memory focusing on future research perspectives in the historical-educational field and to share the state of the art of the project that aims at analyzng the forms of school memories, intended as an individual, collective and public practice recalling a common school past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines the main historiographical reasons behind the birth of school archives, which, although often neglected and ignored, represent new pivotal sources for the history of education. With reference to the legislation on this topic, some pioneering experiences regarding the census and recovery of school archives in Emilia Romagna (Italy) are presented, with special attention to the city of Bologna (Italy). Moreover, this contribution sets out to promote the safeguarding of this remarkable educational heritage, which is essential not only for researchers and the history of education, but also for teaching and citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to go over the itinerary followed by the history of early childhood. Starting with the description of the Greek paideia up to the XX Century, this work underlines the most relevant phases of the Western pedagogical journey, throughout an overview of the educational theories and interventions. Considering these evidences and the last epistemological status, it seems necessary to implement a renovated educational and historiographical research, which must work on the evaluation of the real early childhood and on the enhancement of new resources. In fact, only after a meaningful reconsideration of the action learning theories and of the educational relationship, it will be possible to draw up new inclusive and consistent pedagogical guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article collects and summarizes all the papers presented at the second meeting within the project of relevant national interest (PRIN) «School Memories between Social Perception and Collective Representation (Italy, 1861-2001)». The event represents one of the scheduled meetings of the project members and was aimed to clarify the state of art of the project and to highlight the future engagements. On this occasion, the research outcomes of the three working committees (database, website, public history) have been presented. In addition, the objectives and themes of the project have been analysed in depth also from an international and European perspective, which provided new ideas and cues of reflection for the future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The three papers are intended to offer different interpretations of the recent book by Giorgio Chiosso, entitled L’educazione degli italiani. Laicità, progresso e nazione nel primo Novecento. The authors, starting from different perspectives due to the interests of each one, present interpretative keys useful for undestanding the value of the book and for contextualizing its contents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the basis of a large collection of sources that have not yet been analyzed, the present paper aims to reconstruct in detail the history of the fascist youth organizations during the Mussolini regime, paying particular attention to the Opera Nazionale Balilla (O.N.B.) and to the Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (G.I.L.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article collects and summarizes all the papers presented at the first seminar about the important national research project «School Memories between Social Perception and Collective Representation (Italy, 1861-2001)». This seminar represented the first meeting among all the Italian researchers, to establish the guidelines and the goals of this research project, that covers three years. The fundamental aim is to define the sense of the Italian school through the XIXth and the XXth centuries, due to the study of individual and collective sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a recent volume, this paper seeks to analyze how the student movements of 1968 have influenced and modified the Italian elementary school, paying particular attention to the testimonies of the schoolmasters of those years, to the school journals and to some important political and cultural movements developed in Italy after World War II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, research in the historical-educational field has greatly expanded the spectrum of sources used to reconstruct the history of teaching in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the true scholastic experience. To this end, the authors believe that the examination of teachers’ personal archives and libraries can provide a new contribution to the progress of studies in this sector. Proffering an initial overview of the results of their investigation, still scarce and in a certain sense entirely new to this field of research, the authors have focused on a very unique case study: the documentary and bibliographic archives of primary school teacher Maria Riccini (Ancona 1892- 1975), preserved at the University of Macerata’s Centre for documentation and research on the history of schoolbooks and children’s literature. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct, for the first time, the experiential journey of a specific teacher through a series of indisputably significant sources: her personal library, consisting of training texts (pedagogical and didactic manuals, disciplinary manuals from the normal school, etc.), texts adopted for teaching and continuing education (school textbooks and reading books for primary school students, teaching journals, and cultural magazines); her personal archives, containing documents related to her own didactic work (teaching programs, notes and summaries used for conducting lessons, notebooks with newspaper clippings collected for educational purposes, etc.), and materials produced by the students (dictated texts, essays, exercises, drawings, etc.). The novelty of the approach adopted in analysing this variegated set of sources consists in having cross-referenced and re-read them within the framework of a historical reconstruction that aims to insert the human and professional history of Riccini into the historical-cultural and historical-scholastic context in which she lived and worked, intertwining her life’s work with the significant eras that defined the nation’s history, from fascism to the post-World War II period. It is, therefore, a «story seen from within», which does not speak of an abstract category of teachers, but rather of a specific teacher, her contribution and her direct educational impact, in order to provide a new historiographical perspective on the history of teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the main problems of technical and professional education in Italy in the XIXth century. In particular, it analyzes the results of a recent research by Valeria Viola on this topic. This is a theme of great interest in the Italian history as other issues are linked to it such as the democratization of knowledge, the opening of the school to the children of the lower middle class that means an opening to society, too. The way to reach this aim is not linear and it is characterized by a certain ambiguity: if technical education should help the economic development of the country and the integration of a part of the society in the State structures, it is also considered as a form of lower secondary level education compared to high school that continues to be seen as the classical school for excellence able to form the future ruling class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with some issues opened by a recent research conducted by Anna Ascenzi and Roberto Sani, full professors of History of Education at the University of Macerata (Italy), in order to highlight how the death notices published by some Italian primary teachers' reviews could be considered as new sources for studying the changes of the primary teacher's profession between XIX and XX centuries. Their proposal could be interpreted as the attempt of spreading a new historiographical paradigm in Italy, according to the current development of the «School Memories» trend, introduced in Spain at the beginning of the XXI century by the historians Agustín Escolano Benito and Antonio Viñao Frago and recently celebrated in an International Symposium in Seville (22-23 September, 2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to give a brief but exhaustive account of the VI Week of Excellence at the University of Macerata. This initiative, entitled «Internationalization of didactics and research in the educational system», took place in presence and online from 16 to 20 May 2022. The activities through the Week were proposed under the project «3i4u - Innovation, Internationalization, Inclusion for the University» (from 2018 to 2022) and carried out by the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the University of Macerata, which was awarded of «Departments of Excellence» funding (Law n. 232/2016, art. 1, codicils 314-338). The event provided a wide range of highly qualified educational activities held by leading scholars and researchers in History of Education from Italy and abroad, mainly the national conference «The Internationalization of the Italian School and University System from the Unification to Today», together with two highly specialized seminars and a high specialization workshop for undergraduate and PhD students. The VI Week of Excellence, enriched by the presence of more than 25 speakers, was an extraordinary training opportunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reconstructs the research path of Anna Maria Bernardinis (1932-2017) in the field of children's literature. Since the 1960s, and for the following 50 years, she developed an original position on the basis of the personalistic theory on education. She also was a real pioneer in many fields: she created a research group on children's literature at the University of Padova, as well as innovative reader-centred libraries which foster children's engagement with reading and literature. Among her many achievements, she promoted the «European Award of Youth's Literature», she staged important exhibitions devoted to the history of children's literature and she was deeply committed to education of teachers and librarians to promote new partnerships in literacy education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With this work the autor intends to examine one of the most important links that have gone through the whole history of the press until now. In particular, the author has tried to highlight how this relationship, far from being finished, was affected especially after World War II, the great regional differences and policies that have influenced the history of many countries. Studies devoted to the Arab countries, the Argentine Peronism and the dictatorship of the generals, the long and troubled relationship between the poet Pasternak and Italian publisher Feltrinelli emphasize that freedom often has been endangered by the policy and how the publishing had to pay a high price to defend its space. The paper also highlights the diversity among cities and regions most accustomed to freedom of thought, such as Beirut and Lebanon, and cities and regions which have suffered a severe censorship also accompanied by religious reprisals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Neo-scholastic school had great influence on the Italian pedagogical history of the twentieth century. This trend was affirmed by the second half of the twenties, but began to develop before through the group of scholars gathered around the prestigious journal «Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica», founded in 1909 by Father Agostino Gemelli and Giulio Canella. This article aims to investigate the pedagogical interest of the journal by analyzing the issues published from 1909 until 1923. The paper explores the following aspects of the journal: topics on which the journal drew the attention, links with other catholic circles, and the interpretation provided for other coeval schools of thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article gathers and summarizes the papers presented at the seminar of studies on the history of Italian children’s literature held at the Department of Education «Giovanni Maria Bertin» of the University of Bologna as part of the 54th edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair (April, 3-6 2017). The seminar was promoted by the Workgroup on Children’s Literature of the Italian Society of Pedagogy (SIPED) on the occasion of the publication of the first volume of the Storia e antologia della letteratura per l’infanzia nell’Italia dell’Ottocento by Anna Ascenzi and Roberto Sani (Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2017). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the genesis and development of The night and Sunday high Schools in Milan. Starting from the analysis of the significant results achieved from a recent publication of Carla Ghizzoni, the essay focuses on the importance covered by these educative institutions created in post-unification and developed over the following decades. These civic schools represented undoubtedly peculiar initiative of the Milanese context especially with particular reference to the training needs of young men and young women who, often already begun in humble jobs, aspired to improve their working and social position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the first projects related to «scuola media unica» (unified middle school) discussed inside the upper of Education Board. The debate took place on two floors, one strictly pedagogical and political, the other more sociocultural. Within the first container are threads related to educational planning and in the latter the incidence of this on social and cultural aspects of the country: Latin, freedom of the school, technical applications, religion, division into sections representing some of the major problems faced by the Board in which the board made constant reference during all the meetings that took place between 1959 and 1960. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper continues Elia’s study in the application of the historiographical category of «mass education means» (Meda, 2007) to gymnastics and sport equipment in schools (Elia, 2012). The investigation focuses on the introduction of Jäger’s stick in 1878 school regulations as a turning point in the process of definition of «mass education means» in the school field. The author argues that the spread of Jäger’s stick in Italy thanks to Pietro Gallo made it cheaper to outfit a gym and encouraged the adoption of Emilio Baumann’s gymnastic theory, i.e. the so-called «Italian gymnastics» (Elia, 2015). Indeed, Bauman favoured «small pieces of equipment» because they enable students to do exercises that mimicked natural movements in contrast with the workouts done with «big pieces of equipment», and Jäger’s stick was classified as one of these new «small pieces of equipment». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, starting with the debate developed in the study seminar entitled Educators and educational institutions in Italy: routes, balances and perspectives of investigation (Potenza, 26th November 2015), aims to achieve a synthesis of the fruitful discussion started from important historians of education on the contribution to the historiography of the recent and prestigious publication Biographical Dictionary of Education (1800-2000), edited by Giorgio Chiosso and Roberto Sani, and fruit of the work of research groups working in different universities of Peninsula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to make an assessment on the current state of historical educational and pedagogical research in Italy. The analysis of four recent books of young historians of education reveals how the discipline is experiencing a season of renewal thanks to the rigorous and valuable work conducted by a new generation of historians of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses attention about the recent book of Elisa Marazzi entitled Libri per diventare italiani. L'editoria per la scuola a Milano nel secondo Ottocento, to analyze many aspects of the various and complex phases of the constitution of a national educational book market and to present the characteristic and peculiar aspects of Milanese scholastic educative production. The author then focuses on the role of the book as a tool to educate the younger generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to present and celebrate the role and work of the pedagogist Remo Fornaca, professor of the history of education, who died on 17 January 2015. The colleague and friend George Chiosso will reconstruct the main steps of his academic and scientific career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the recent book of Elisabetta Patrizi entitled Pastoralità ed educazione. L'episcopato di Agostino Valier nella Verona post-tridentina (1565-1606), to analyze different aspects of the Sixteenth century, through a punctual and rigorous reinterpretation of pastoral and educational program developed by Agostino Valier, a very important person of Italian post-Tridentine season, who was bishop of the Diocese of Verona between 1565 and 1606. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]