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Monumental memory of school in post-unitarian Italy
No full textWhy should stone tablets and statues be of interest to education historians? This essay analyses epigraphic and sculptural artefacts as manifestations of public memory of school as well as cultural devices for shaping collective imaginary about education and citizenship, in a chronological arc beginning with the Italian unification. While treating a set of monumental samples, particular attention is focused on the political reasons behind the choices of installing memorials in honour of personages of school – ranging from teachers to education ministers, passing through educationalists. Throughout the shifts in power under way from the second half of 19th century onwards, what emerges is the major heuristic potential lying in those material historical sources: first of all, the monumental phenomenology is revealed to be the expression of a self-celebratory strategy promoted by the ruling classes to legitimate themselves as the guardians of a honourable school past; moreover, the public use of school memory turns out to be designed to strengthen feelings of belonging to a particular community, be it educational, professional teaching, local or national; lastly, monumental traces in the anthropic space are shown to be the signs of a diffused pedagogy trying to instil a virtuous model of educator and more generally of citizen into the folds of collective mentality. By penetrating into the official idea of schooling behind inscribed slabs and three-dimensional portrays, what the author has defined as monumental archaeology of school imaginary offers an untried standpoint on cultural history of education
L’internazionalizzazione del sistema scolastico e universitario italiano dall’Unità ad oggi, Convegno nazionale di studi, Macerata, Università di Macerata, 17-18 maggio 2022
No full textThis paper aims to give a brief but exhaustive account of the national conference "The Internationalization of the Italian School and University System from the Unification to Today", held in presence and online from 16 to 20 May 2022, on the initiative of the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the University of Macerata
Presentazione ufficiale delle banche dati sulla memoria scolastica. A proposito del quinto seminario nazionale PRIN (Roma, 5 novembre 2021)
No full textThis 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»
Internazionalizzazione della didattica e della ricerca nel sistema formativo. Note sulla VI Settimana di Eccellenza all’Università degli Studi di Macerata
No full textThis 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
L’evoluzione della rappresentazione di Giovanni Cena nella memoria pubblica (1918-1927)
No full textThis article aims to highlight the place that Giovanni Cena occupied in the public imagination after his death on the basis of the monumental tributes paid to his memory from 1918 to 1927. Three commemorative artifacts were dedicated to the so-called apostle of education of the peasants of the Agro Romano and Pontine Marshes: the plaque on the façade of the School of Colle di Fuori (1918); the plaque under the porch of the School of Casal delle Palme (1921); the funeral monument in his native Montanaro (1927). Analyzing the three monumental sources – jointly with the related printed commemorative materials, in particular those containing inaugural speeches – enables to trace the development of the memorial narrative on Cena from his late liberal civil exaltation to his fascist religious sublimation; thus, the monument at Montanaro Cemetery – which was erected as the Lateran Treaty was drawing near – consists of the sculptured face of Christ. The public use of memory is also studied: inaugural ceremonies provide the promoters of Cena’s memorialization an opportunity to deal with extra commemorative issues
School memories from the Eritrean Colony. The Eritreans’ oral testimonies
No full textThis article takes as a documentary basis the oral reports from Eritrean witnesses of Italian colonialism that the historian Irma Taddia recorded between 1986 and 1994. The interviews – which were published in 1996 – are particularly relevant for their historical-educational contents. The school memories emerging in the autobiographical accounts are subjected to analysis for the first time in this study: the oral materials collected by Taddia turn out to be of exceptional testimonial value by providing the Eritreans’ retrospective look at their school past during the Italian occupation. The interviewees give their judgement on the colonial educational organization: they express dissatisfaction with the inadequacy of the Italian initiative in relation to school matters and are aware that the lines of colonial educational policy were oriented towards maintaining the status quo. The live voices of Eritrean witnesses are precious as they integrate the Italian written sources used for reconstructing the educational history in the Eritrean Colony
Monumento a Francesca Capece a Maglie (1900)
Full text linkScheda relativa al monumento a Francesca Capece, opera di Antonio Bortone, inaugurato a Maglie nel 190
Lapide a Caterina Franceschi Ferrucci a Osimo (1891)
Full text linkScheda relativa alla lapide a Caterina Franceschi Ferrucci inaugurata a Osimo nel 189
Lapide a Bartolomeo Muzzone a Racconigi (1903)
Full text linkScheda relativa alla lapide a Bartolomeo Muzzone, opera di C. Ciastellardo, posta a Racconigi nel 190
Monumento a Edmondo De Amicis a Pinerolo (1909)
Full text linkScheda relativa al monumento a Edmondo De Amicis, opera di Pietro Canonica, inaugurato a Pinerolo nel 190
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