Tracce di patrimonio scolastico-educativo: un recente e importante contributo di Francesca D. Pizzigoni

Traces of educational heritage: a recent and important work by Francesca D. Pizzigoni

Abstract

The historical heritage produced by schools represents a recent area of research around which educational historians have been practicing for a few years now, including through a transnational approach. Within this new perspective of investigation, there is still limited scholarly production oriented to deepen the epistemological and methodological aspects that support research on school culture. Francesca Davida Pizzigoni’s essay Tracce di Patrimonio is located within this trajectory and examines some unpublished sources that can help shed light on the historical material dimension of schooling and contribute to the renewal of historiographic practice in the field. The documentary nucleus constituted by the collection with a didactic-educational character of the Royal Industrial Museum of Turin, the manuals produced in the second half of the nineteenth century dedicated to school museums, the school collections present in national exhibitions, and trade catalogs represent the framework around which the scholar’s rich and articulate reflection unfolds.