Material History of Schooling and Historical-Educational Heritage

Department

Dottorato in Scienze Psicologiche, Antropologiche e Pedagogiche, Università di Torino

Main research activities/topics/projects

Research activities focus on the study of the history of schooling through its materiality, by investigating historical teaching objects, school furniture, school archives, historical-educational documentary sources, school architecture, school museums, and collections.

Material sources are analyzed both to enhance knowledge and improve their identification, and as crossroads of interdisciplinary information (including social history, economic history, urban history, etc.).

The main research projects in which students will be involved concern the exploration of new epistemological possibilities related to school materiality through the innovative use of Artificial Intelligence applied to historical-educational sources.

Alongside activities based on documentary sources—such as historical commercial catalogues of companies producing educational materials—students will also engage in the direct study of historical school heritage preserved in schools today, as well as in the development of educational projects aimed at its didactic use, within the frameworks of public history of education and cultural heritage.

Special entry requirements

 Opportunity to participate in the research projects of the Research Center on School Materiality at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin; opportunity to access and study school museums in Turin and their heritage collections.

Duration in months (min-max)

Master Research: 2 - 6 

PhD sandwich: 2 - 12

Post Doc: 2 - 12