Learning outcomes
This course aims at illustrating the diachronic aspects of educational phenomena of particular significance today and throughout history; it also aims at highlighting the historical nexus between pedagogical experience and philosophical knowledge, mainly as far as institutions and projects were concerned.
This class is also designed to illustrate some specific methods of historical reconstruction of facts and ideas that are peculiar to didactic experiences, applying such analysis to a specific group of events; it also aims at analyzing past experiences not strictly institutional in an attempt to clarify their educational function with reference to their social and cultural ecology.
Course contents
This class will take place during the first half of the first semester
Course title: Case studies and educational phenomena between past and present and between continuity and changes
The course aims at treating some methodological problems concerning the historical-pedagogical research with special reference to a micro-systemic research perspective that includes the study of a case with the wider systemic levels. In fact, the history of a specific school can become the starting point for a wider analysis of school disciplines, rules and didactic practices, between continuity and changes.
Reccomended or required readings
Academic year 2014-2015.Reference texts: Attending and not attending students must study these compulsory readings:
M. Ferrari, A. Ferrari, A. Lepore, a cura di, "Il prezioso acquisto della scienza e della virtù". La Scuola magistrale "Sofonisba Anguissola" di Cremona: uno studio di caso, Pisa, ETS, 2014.
M. Morandi, La scuola secondaria in Italia. Ordinamento e programmi dal 1859 ad oggi, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2014.
Furthermore, to the above bibliography the students attending must add one of the compulsory readings and students not attending must choose two compulsory readings from the following list:
P. Bianchini, ed., Le origini delle materie. Discipline, programmi e manuali scolastici in Italia, Torino, SEI, 2010.
E Codignola, Le "scuole nuove" e i loro problemi, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1946-1959.
C. Ghizzoni, Cultura magistrale nella Lombardia del primo Novecento, Brescia, La Scuola, 2005.
A. Santoni Rugiu, Maestre e maestri. La difficile storia degli insegnanti elementari, Roma, Carocci, 2006.
C.G. Lacaita, M. C. Fugazza, a cura di, L'istruzione secondaria nell'Italia unita.1861-1901, Milano, FrancoAngeli?, 2013.
Students must also read: F. Cambi, Storia della pedagogia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995, with specific reference to the historical period related to the compulsory readings.
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