HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING AND CHILDREN'S BOOK

The course aims to develop a general knowledge about the spreading of educational publishing in the contemporary age. Attention will be mainly focused on the origins of books for popular education, schoolbooks and children’s books in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, proposing an analysis of the problems and conditions of children’s publishing in the contemporary cultural context.

The condition of popular educational books and school-books, the publishing system and educational praxis in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and their patterns and dynamics of development; Educational writings and models of popular education: cultural traditions and ideological references; Educational and school publishing and the education of Italian people after the Unification of Italy; Cultural production, publishing system and problems of Southern Italy between the Nineteenth and Twentieth century. Publishers, books and children’s literature in the contemporary cultural context.

Groundings :

• G. Chiosso, Libri di scuola e mercato editoriale. Dal primo Ottocento alla Riforma Gentile, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2013

• L. Todaro, Sante Giuffrida e il rinnovamento educativo nell’Italia unita, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2014 (pp.1-41; pp.106-140)

• L. Todaro (ed.), Spazi della parola, tempo dell’infanzia, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2016

Specialised Course:

- S. Sola, P. Vassalli (a cura di), I nostri anni ’70. Libri per ragazzi in Italia, Mantova, Corraini, 2014

• G. Rodari, La torta in cielo, Einaudi ragazzi, 2011

In order to pass their exams, students will also be required to study the new lecture notes prepared by the teacher, which will be made available during the academic lessons time