Keywords: history of education, history of the school, history of childhood, digital history, social history.
Research topics: The research lines concern two levels:
Aims and objectives:Analysis of processes in the contemporary age, privileging a socio-cultural approach addressed to themes of history of the school, training at work and in the workplace, leisure time, childhood and adolescence, school and educational policies, and didactics. Reflections on methodology and historiographic criticism: from the analysis of sources to digital documentation, from didactics to the diffusion of knowledge.
Current projects:Research regarding the history of the Italian elementary school; digitalization of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks; history of vocational training and technical-professional education after World War II; alpinism, modernity and human personality between pastime and work.
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Last update
11.02.2021