500299 - HISTORY OF PEDAGOGY

courses

ID:

500299

Duration (hours):

36

CFU:

SSD:

STORIA DELLA PEDAGOGIA

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)

Course Objectives

This course aims at
- explaining and providing knowledge of the diachronic aspects of educational phenomena of particular significance today and throughout history, highlighting the historical nexus between pedagogical experience and philosophical knowledge, mainly as far as institutions and projects were concerned;
- discussing and providing knowledge of some specific methods of historical reconstruction of facts and ideas that are peculiar to didactic experiences, applying this kind of analysis to a specific group of events. Indeed, the course is intended to activate the ability to study and relate cultural and experiential links between past and present, with an eye to the future;
- developing the students' ability to analyze, read and explicate past experiences (not strictly institutional) in an attempt to clarify their educational function with reference to their social and cultural ecology.

Course Prerequisites

Even if there are no particular prerequisites, a basic knowledge of historic-educational terminology is nevertheless suggested. In the awareness that some students may be approaching Education and History of Education for the first time during this course, successful participation presumes a cultural attitude of willingness to listen, grasp and actively elaborate the issues posed by history of education, discussing them in a collaborative way.

Teaching Methods

All the professor's lessons aim at favouring dialogue and active/cooperative discussion in the working group. The participation of other professors/researchers/experts with an interest in the course topic might be possible.

Assessment Methods

Oral exam.
Evaluation indicators:
- knowledge of the basic texts of the exam programme;
- ability to explain, in full autonomy, the silver thread that links some of the issues presented in the basic texts, coherently with the exam programme;
- ability to critically analyse and personally re-elaborate the issues proposed during the course;
- clear and logically coherent presentation;
- lexical accuracy.

Texts

Reference texts (in the available edition)
In order to prepare for the exam, attending students will have to choose 3 volumes among those indicated below, while non-attending students will have to choose 4 of them:
M. Baldacci (ed.), La formazione dei docenti in Europa, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2013;
N.S. Barbieri, A. Gaudio, G. Zago (eds.), Manuale di educazione comparata. Insegnare in Europa e nel mondo, Brescia, La Scuola, 2016;
P. Bianchini (ed.), Le origini delle materie. Discipline, programmi e manuali scolastici in Italia, Torino, Sei, 2010;
F. De Giorgi, A. Gaudio, F. Pruneri (eds.), Manuale di storia della scuola italiana. Dal Risorgimento al XXI secolo, Brescia, Scholé, 2019;
M. Ferrari, L'educazione esclusiva. Pedagogie della distinzione sociale tra XV e XXI secolo, Brescia, Scholé, 2020;
M. Ferrari, G. Cospito, M. Morandi (eds.), La pedagogia in età moderna. Autori e movimenti, Brescia, Scholé, 2025;
M. Ferrari, G. Matucci, M. Morandi, La scuola inclusiva dalla Costituzione a oggi. Riflessioni tra pedagogia e diritto, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2019;
M. Ferrari, M. Morandi, F. Piseri (eds.), Maestri e pratiche educative in età umanistica. Contributi per una storia della didattica, Brescia, Scholé, 2019;
M. Ferrari, M. Morandi (eds.), Maestri e pratiche educative dalla Riforma alla Rivoluzione francese. Contributi per una storia della didattica, Brescia, Scholé, 2020;
M. Ferrari, M. Morandi (eds.), Maestri e pratiche educative dall'Ottocento a oggi. Contributi per una storia della didattica, Brescia, Scholé, 2020;
M. Ferrari, M. Morandi (eds.), Pedagogie dell'esclusione/Pedagogie dell'inclusione, Brescia, Scholé, 2024;
M. Ferrari, M. Morandi, R. Casale, J. Windheuser (eds.), La formazione degli insegnanti della secondaria in Italia e in Germania. Una questione culturale, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2021;
M. Ferrari, M. Morandi, S. Negruzzo, M. Piseri (eds.), Dossier- Il metodo normale:percorsi interpretativi di una didattica che ha unito l'Europa, in 'Studi sulla formazione', 1, 2025;
M. Ferrari, G. Tognon (eds.), L'Umanesimo ri-formativo: leggere, scrivere, vivere nel Quattrocento italiano, in 'Annali di storia dell'educazione e delle istituzioni scolastiche', 27, 2020;
M. Morandi, La fucina dei professori. Storia della formazione docente in Italia dal Risorgimento a oggi, Brescia, Scholé, 2021;
M. Morandi, La scuola secondaria in Italia. Ordinamento e programmi dal 1859 ad oggi, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2014;
G. Ricuperati, Storia della scuola in Italia, Brescia, La Scuola, 2015;
S. Santamaita, Storia della scuola. Dalla scuola al sistema formativo, 3a ed., Milano-Torino, Pearson, 2021.
All students wishing to sit the exam are asked to agree on the reading material with the professors.

Professors: Monica Ferrari and Matteo Morandi. Course title: Ideas of school, teacher, student and citizen between the XV and XXI century: regulations, theories and educational practices.
During the course we will discuss some turning points in the history of the educational practices and institutions, from the XV century to the present day, with particular reference to the connection between given ideas of school, teacher, student and citizen and also the relationships between exclusive and inclusive processes throughout history. We will also discuss the history of the Italian national education system (from the Casati law to the present day), with particular reference to secondary-school teachers and their professional training, also in a comparative perspective with other European countries.