Didattica delle discipline nella storia dell'educazione. Fonti e metodologia

To study school subjects text-books are an important source, which may be studied with different methodologies: quantitative, qualitative, and also new digital technologies. The study of school printing houses is also relevant, as well as the investigation into teacher training and teacher magazines and associations, that promoted cultural ad didactic updating. The history of school subjects teaching is in fact linked with the history of teachers and teacher magazines and associations. Another relevant source is that of teaching tools. Lastly, school-exercise books, text produced by pupils, teachers and pupils’ diaries, class registers, exams are relevant sources that allow to reconstruct how a school subject was really taught by teachers.