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16764 - History of Education

Academic Year 2024/2025

                
                        Docente:
                        Dorena Caroli
                    
                        Credits:
                        8
                    
                        SSD:
                        M-PED/02
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Rimini
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Expert in Social and Cultural Education (cod. 5727)

                            Online Lessons
                        
                            Teaching resources on Virtuale
                        
                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Sep 16, 2024 to Nov 25, 2024

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students will: know the main objects and methods of the history of education; the main directions of development of the history of pedagogy (authors, cultural tendencies, and educational categories); the main perspectives of the development of the history of Italian educational services, both scholastic and extra-scholastic linked to the area of disadvantage and exclusion; the main directions of development of production, distribution and usage processes of cultural products; the direction of development related to contemporary debates about environmental education and sustainable development; will understand the synchronic dimension of the educational issues within the historical, social and cultural contexts where they have arisen in order to project educational meausures; will be able to collect, interpret and reflect on historical and educational data in a scientific and critical method; to research material and documentation about current educational issues in a historical and educational perspective; to realise an essential bibliography about contents related to the historical and educational research; to enter to social, educational and cultural work owning the competence about the historical and educational frameworks.

Course contents

The course aims to highlight the historical dimension of the educational problem, intended as an essential element for the construction of the identity of the social and cultural educator working in the present and future societies. Therefore, some salient topics in the history of pedagogy and education will be addressed in order to offer elements for thought and in-depth study for the social and cultural educator, also with a view to the history of the circulation of educational ideas between past and present.

The course is divided into four main parts that deal with the classics, the salient phases of the history of literacy and school in Italy, services and extracurricular education and, finally, some aspects in a comparative perspective of the history of schooling in Russia.

The first part deals with some 'classics' in the history of pedagogy and education, from which to draw elements/ideas for thought regarding the construction of the professional identity of the social and cultural educator. Starting from an introduction about the changes of the metodology in the researches concerning the history of education, the educational revolution of the sixteenth century will introduce to the main topics of Modern History of education. Then the conceptions elaborated by Comenio, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Fröbel, le Agazzi, Tolstoj, Montessori, Dewey, Baden Powell, Makarenko, Freinet, Margherita Zoebeli, Ferrière, Gramsci, Don Milani, Freire and Illich will be studied.

These conceptions can be studien also in the textbooks already available for students such as U.Avalle-M. Maranzana e R. Tassi).

The second and third part include the main aspects of the history of schooling- the processes of literacy and schooling between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular reference to the history of the Italian school from the Casati law (Casati law, Coppino, Orlando, Daneo-Credaro, Gentile Reform) until the post-war period;- some educational and cultural and extracurricular institutions (the movement of the scouts and Balillas);

- of children and minors, in relation to the development of educational institutions (brefotrofi/orphanages) between modern and contemporary age, between assistance and education;

The third part deals with the comparative history of the Russian school in comparison with Italy, as an example of a model for the circulation of educational ideas and of the Italian elementary school model implemented abroad with particular attention to the pacifist conception by Lev. Tolstoy.

N. B. This program is 8 credits. Students in exam debt with other programms (and different credits/CFU) must contact the teacher. Attendance is not mandatory but particularly recommended.

Readings/Bibliography

Students should prepare four texts in all.

Mandatory and common to all:

F. De Giorgi (ed.), Storia della pedagogia, Scholé, Brescia, 2021 (or the new edition: F. De Giorgi (ed.), Nuova storia della pedagogia, Brescia, Scholé, 2024: the parts concerning the authors listed in the present programm).

It is mandatory to study the following authors:

Comenio (in the Context of the educational Revolution of the XVI century), Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Fröbel, le sorelle Agazzi, Tolstoj, Dewey, Montessori, Baden Powell, Makarenko, Freinet, Margherita Zoebeli, Ferrière, Gentile, Gramsci, Freire, don Milani, Illich.

(These authors - as well as the authors who are not present in the aforementioned textbook edited by De Giorgi - can also be studied on any manual already in possession of the students such as those of U.Avalle-M. Maranzana and R. Tassi).

The following two books:

S. Santamaita, Storia della scuola. Dalla scuola al sistema formativo, intr. di R. Laporta, Milano-Torino, Perason, 2021, pp. 270. This volume is connected to a digital platform of sources and school regulations).

D. Caroli, De Amicis in Russia. La ricezione tra sistema scolastico zarista e sovietico, Roma, Carocci, pp. 224.

A further text chosen by the student as a personal study on a "classic" or on one of the topics presented during the course:

Preferably between the following volumes:

D. Caroli, T. Pironi, I. Bellucci, M. Maioli, M. Sorrentino (a cura di), Margherita Zoebeli, una vita per l'infanzia, Bologna Clueb, 2024, pp. 343.

E. De Amicis, Cuore. Libro per ragazzi (qualsiasi edizione integrale) per to be studied with the volume about De Amicis' reception in Russia;

A. Cagnolati, C. Petruzzi (a cura di), La pedagogia di Leonard Covello. Scuola, democrazia e cittadinanzia nella New York degli italoamericani, prefazione di M. Tirabassi, Roma, Aracne, 2023;

La bellezza degli inizi. Pedagogisti in Romagna a cura di Lorenzo Campioni e Giovanni Sapucci, Bergamo, Zeroseiup, 2023.

M. Mazzini, Da un lavoro al proprio lavoro. Una teoria dell'educazione e formazione nella letteratura per l'infanzia e adolescenza, Venezia, Marcianum Press, 2022.

G. Zago, L'educatore. Profilo storico con appendice antologica, Lecce, Pensa Ultimedia, 2023.

but it is possible to chhos also between the following volumes:

V. P. Babini, Liberi tutti. Manicomi e psichiatri in Italia: una storia del Novecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.

R. Baden-Powell, Scautismo per ragazzi, Roma, Nuova Fiordaliso, 1996.

F. Basaglia, L’istituzione negata. Rapporto di un ospedale psichiatrico, Torino, Einaudi, 1968.

Bergoni A., "Prima che partano!" progetti di alfabetizzazione e scuole per gli emigranti nell'Italia liberale (1861-1921), pref. di A. Scotto di Luzio, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2023, pp. 289.

L. Borghi, Educazione e autorità nell'Italia moderna, a cura di C. Betti e Cambi, Bergamo, edizioni jiunior (in corso di stampa).

L. Caimi, Cattolici per l'educazione. Studi su oratori e associazioni giovanili nell'Italia unita, Brescia, La Scuola, 2006.

A. Cagnolati (a cura di), Tra negazione e soggettività. Per una rilettura del corpo femminile nella storia dell'aducazione, Milano, Guerini, 2007;

C. Callegari, Sergej Hessen (1887-1950). Pedagogista europeo, Milano, Mimesis, 2022.

D. Caroli, Cittadini e patrioti. Educazione, letteratura per l’infanzia e costruzione dell’identità nazionale nella Russia sovietica, Macerata, Eum, 2011.

D. Caroli, Ideali, ideologie e modelli formativi. Il movimento dei Pionieri in URSS, Milano, Unicopli, 2015 (2 ed.).

D. Caroli, E. Patrizi (a cura di), “Educare alla bellezza la gioventù della nuova Italia”. Scuola, beni culturali e costruzione dell’identità nazionale dall’Unità al secondo dopoguerra, Milano, FrancAngeli, 2017.

M. Castoldi, Insegnare libertà. Storie di maestri antifascisti, Roma, Donzelli editore, 2018.

H. Cunningham, Storia dell'infanzia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997.

M. D’Ascenzo, Per una storia delle scuole all'aperto in Italia, Pisa, ETS, 2018.

M. D’Ascenzo, R. Vignoli, Scuola, didattica e musei. Il Museo didattico 'Luigi Bombicci' di Bologna, Bologna, Clueb, 2008.

A. Debè, Crescere in un Villaggio. L’OSEA di Reggio Emilia: genesi e sviluppo di un servizio educativo (1951-2012), Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 2013.

De Giorgi F. (a cura di), Cantieri di pace nel Novecento. Figure, esperienze e modelli educativi nel secolo dei conflitti, Bologna, il Mulino, 2018, pp. 251.

De Giorgi F. (a cura di), Il metodo italiano nell'educazione contemporanea. Rosmini, Bosco, Montessori, Milani, Brescia, Scholé, 2023, pp. 272.

De Giorgi F. (a cura di), Il modernismo in Italia, Giacomelli, Deledda, Montessori e le altre protagoniste tra risveglio dello Sirito e educazione nuova, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2023, pp. 258.

Bobbio. A., Medici educatori da Montessori ai giorni nostri. Decroly, Korczak, Winnicott, Pikler, Spock, Dolto, Bollea, Bernardi, Romanini, Brescia, Scholé, 2023, 375.