HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND MINORAL MARGINALITY

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Letterio TODARO
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: M-PED/02 - HISTORY OF EDUCATION
Taught classes: 54 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course aims at developing a historical perspective on the condition of the Childhood in the latest Century.

The 'Discovery of Childhood' in the bourgeois model of civilization.

Main topics in the Children's History: abandoned children, missing and exploited children, kidnapped and soldiers children.


Course Structure

Readings.

Multimedial materials.


Detailed Course Content

The History of Childhood: Concepts and Methods.

The Children's care and protection in the XXth Century.

Specialised course: the Children's involvement in the XXth Century wars


Textbook Information

1. E. Macinai - Pedagogia e diritti dei bambini. Uno sguardo storico. Roma, Carocci, 2013. (limitatamente alle pagine 27-161).

2. B. Maida - L'infanzia nelle guerre del Novecento. Torino, Einaudi, 2017.

3. L. Todaro - Women’s Activism and Innovation in Education: the Role of the Unione Femminile Nazionale in Sicily for the Transformation of Italian Pedagogy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, 2017. (available on Studium.Unict).

4. Lecture notes (available on Studium.Unict).