Università Roma Tre

The social history of Education Courses's program is focused on the role of education in history with special reference to issues concerning gender (men and women) and social status differences . Special attention will be devoted to the history of family, including the social roles and the educational models that have been devoleped therein. Based on alternative sources, such as diaries biographies and autobiographies and correspondences, will be reconstructing not only the debate on education but also the real life experiences of the subjects involved in educational processes.

G. Lombardo Radice, Lezioni di didattica e ricordi di esperienza magistrale, a cura di L. Cantatore, Edizioni Conoscenza, Roma 2022.
G. Chiosso, L'educazione degli italiani. Laicità, progresso e nazione nel primo Novecento, Il Mulino, Bologna 2019.
I. Baccini, La mia vita. Ricordi autobiografici, a cura di L. Cantatore, Unicopli, Milano 2004.
Students are expected to show a good knowledge of the history of Italy from Unification to the advent of fascism. This can be achieved by studying any secondary school contemporary history textbook.