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The ‘emulators’ of Samuel Smiles: Self-Help literature in Italy during the 19th Century
No full textBased on a wide and deep analysis of the vast and articulate journalism of a self-helpist line appearing in the peninsula following the publication in the Italian language of Samuel Smiles’s famous essay Self-Help (1865), the article focuses on significant differences that can be seen, from the point of view of the socio-economic and political orientations and of the cultural and formative models transmitted, among this journalism, which in Italy soon assumed the most correct definition of «proletarian» journalism, and the original «selfhelpist» ideology of an anglo-saxon origin advocated by the Smiles essay
On leadership, continuity, and the common good
No full textThe public interest. The public good. The common good. All these terms describe ways of thinking about our collective selves and our shared interests that transcend our memberships of such groups as families, teams, and workplaces that typically inform our understanding of who we are and pattern our expectations and experience of the social world. Whereas groups such as these are ‘concrete’ in the sense that we interact with many of the members of these groups, know the group’s defining features, and can recognise exemplary members, the community of individual citizens to whom concepts like the public good apply is more abstract. Indeed, we know such communities not through direct face-to- face interaction with their members but rather indirectly, through our imaginations. It is not for nothing that Benedict Anderson (1983) described such collective, temporally continuous entities as ‘imagined communities’.
In this article, I explore the idea that certain of our current cultural ideals and practices may be inimical to our ability to imagine and experience ourselves as members of these imagined, enduring communities. In particular, I explore the idea that in our prevailing culture of flux, impermanence, and uncertainty, characterised by Bauman (2012) as ‘liquid’ modernity, we have fallen out of the habit of thinking about our ourselves as members of an imagined community of citizens with common interests who act with collective purpose in the service of these interests. Given that the type of imagined community necessary to overcome the kinds of problems that deform the public good is precisely the type of collective identity that is neither valorised nor cultivated in liquid modernity, we find ourselves less capable of acting in concert with one another to enhance the public good than we ideally should be. Notwithstanding this state of affairs, it affords us an opportunity to re-imagine the common good and to enact, entrench and expand the practice of leadership in its service
Religious Congregations, Education and School in Italy in the Nineteenth Century
No full textThis article traces the origins and development of about 140 new religious male and female congregations, established in Italy during the Nineteenth century. Starting from the Restoration period, the article frames the actions and choices of the new religious congregations with reference to the new scenarios produced by the revolutionary experience and by the changes introduced in ecclesiastical legislation and in the relations between State and Church during the Napoleonic era. At the same time, it deals with the unusual challenges the Church had to face due to both the secularization of mentality and customs and the increased educational needs and welfare of the post-revolutionary period. The author analyses some characteristics of these new religious institutions, most of which chose as privileged —and sometimes exclusive— activity of their apostolate the assistance (of poor and sick people, and of abandoned children and youth), the catechesis and animation of religious life in the parishes and, above all, the education of youth of both sexes and of different social classes. Firstly, the author describes the aspect related to the general adoption of the structure of religious congregations, which provides unequivocal evidence of the prevalence, also on the female side, of the traditional monastic model, of a vocation to religious life understood essentially as an active life devoted to charity, a synthesis between action and prayer, a commitment in the world through the assistance of others. The author’s reconstruction also shows how the idea of charity promoted by the new religious congregations was understood not simply as a commitment to provide assistance, but also, and above all, as an educational responsibility. Indeed, the new religious congregations considered education, school and parish catechesis as the most effective tools for Christians’ education. At the same time, school and education were also seen as the most direct and useful tool for relieving poverty and overcoming the marginalisation of the poorer classes and as the most effective tool for facilitating the successful integration of young working class men and women into society
The Education of Female élites in Nineteenth Century Papal Rome. Innovative Contributions of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Madeleine-Sophie Barat
No full textAfter a brief description of the evolution of
educational institutions in the first half of the nineteenth
century Papal Rome, the Author explores the
role played –on this side– of the new female religious
institutions arose after the French Revolution. The article,
on the basis on a rich archival and printed documentation,
analyzes the innovative work of the teaching
and religious Congregation of the Sacred Heart,
founded in Paris in 1800 by Madeleine-Sophie Barat,
whose “colleges for young ladies” of bourgeois and aristocracy
offered to the young women of upper classes
of papal capital a cultural and religious education, that
was much more rich and elaborate than that provided
by female traditional boarding schools
Pemeranan Tokoh HAM Dalam Naskah End Game Karya Samuel Beckett Terjemahan Asrul Sani Menggunakan Tehnik Akting Meisner
No full textPenelitian berjudul Penerapan Unsur Dramatik Dalam Pertunjukan Teater Pemeranan tokoh HAM dalam lakon End Game karya Samuel Beckett, terjemahan Asrul Sani menggunakan pendekatan motode Meisner dengan teknik persiapan emosional, improvisasi dan pengulangan sebagai formula untuk mewujudkan tokoh HAM pada sebuah pertunjukan teater.. Penciptaan pemeranan tersebut diawali dengan analisis struktur dan tekstur tokoh HAM. Bagian dari analisis struktur tokoh HAM meliputi aspek fisiologi, psikologi dan sosiologi tokoh. Analisis tekstur tokoh meliputi dialog dan spektakel. Hasil dari analisis dan tafsir pemeran terhadap tokoh tersebut dijadikan pedoman dalam upaya proses penciptaan tokoh, dengan bertumpu pada pendekatan peran dan daya cipta melalui potensi dan kekayaan batin, yang secara akademik dimiliki oleh pemeran Penciptaan tokoh HAM pada pertunjukan teater adalah satu upaya untuk memahami kembali pikiran-pikiran absurd yang tercermin berdasarkan perwujudan tokoh yang menunjukkan keadaan tragis dan juga komedi.
Roberto Sani, (dir.), L’educazione dei sordomuti nell’Italia dell’800. Istituzioni, metodi, proposte formative
No full textEn Italie, l’éducation des sourds-muets suivait, au début du xixe siècle, la méthode française de l’abbé de l’Épée plutôt que celle de l’allemand Samuel Heinicke. La première reposait sur un système gestuel qui utilisait un alphabet manuel et le langage des signes. L’école allemande, qui avait essaimé de Leipzig jusqu’à Vienne, était fondée, au contraire, sur l’expression orale. L’ouvrage collectif dirigé par Roberto Sani reconstitue l’histoire de cette éducation spéciale depuis les fondation..
«A concentrate of Italic defects». The figure of the school inspector in the literary production in a united Italy (1865-1962)
No full textThrough the examination of various complex literary works (novels, short stories, news, etc.), which were printed between 1865 and 1962, the author has examined the characteristics and the evolution recorded by the figure of the school inspector in the storytelling of a united Italy, especially focusing on the remarkable contrast, which can be recorded in this phase, between the real centrality attributed by school legislation to this figure of ministerial official for the better functioning of Italian schools and the universally negative connotation attributed to the figure of the school inspector in literature
The contribution of «History of Education & Children’s Literature» (HECL) to a recent international workshop on the scientific journals of history of education
No full textThe article reproduces the text of the report presented at the Workshop on the journals of History of Education, held on the 26th of February 2015, as part of the Symposium of History of Education of Valladolid (Spain) and organized by the journal «Espacio, Tiempo y Educación» on the topic: La Pedagogía ante la Muerte. Reflexiones e interpretaciones en perspectivas histórica y filosófica. In it, the author analyses a number of issues related to the role played by scientific journals in the strengthening and internationalization of the research in the field of history of education. A particular importance, among the various debated topics, was given to the models of editorial management of the journals and their effects on the forms of scientific production, to the role of the social networks in the promotion of these same journals, to the procedures for openaccess and free-access publication, to the indexing in the major international databases, such as ISI Web of Science by Thomson Reuters or SCOPUS by Elsevier, and finally to the editorial choice to focus on English monolingualism or to enhance multilingualism, publishing articles in different languages
Camilla Del Soldato
No full textThe headword explains the biography and the contribution of the author Camilla Del Soldato to the children's literatur
Ada Cagli Della Pergola
No full textThe headword explains the biography and the contribution of the author Ada Cagli Della Pergola to the children's literatur
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