Il museo racconta la scuola tra passato e presente

Abstract

The Museums of educational heritage - especially those established in University Departments – represent an extraordinary resource for scientific research, education, and the Third Mission, which is aimed at promoting collaboration, dialogue and exchange between the University and its territory to generate knowledge and benefit of social, cultural, and economic nature as well. Within the Third Mission precisely lies Public History defined as "the communication of history outside academic environments" (AIPH 2018). In this framework the paper presents some examples of educational projects and activities carried out with local schools and communities by the "Mauro Laeng" Museum of school and education at the University of Roma Tre, and by the "Paolo & Ornella Ricca" Museum of school history at the University of Macerata. The final aim is to provide a methodological approach, project ideas, and operational tools for inspiring schoolteachers and professors, university researchers and museum educators.

Learning Sciences from the Past: Recovery, Study, and Cataloging of a Historical Natural History School Museum

“…The latter comprises not only teaching collections but also libraries and archives, e.g., [73][74][75], which still need to be correctly preserved and made known to students and teachers. To achieve this goal, Meda and D'Ascenzo [67,76] underlined the establishment of educational museums, mostly based on academic institutions [77], entirely devoted to preserving and displaying the school heritage such as the Museo della Scuola e dell'Educazione "Mauro Laeng" in Rome, e.g., [78], the Museo dell'Educazione in Padua, e.g., [79], the Museo della Scuola e del Libro per l'Infanzia in Turin, e.g., [80], the Museo Didattico e della Didattica in Piacenza, e.g., [81], the Museo della Scuola "Paolo e Ornella Ricca" in Macerata, e.g., [82,83], and the Museo della scuola e dell'educazione popolare in Campobasso, e.g., [84]. Furthermore, it is noteworthy the establishment of the Italian Society for the Study of the Historical-Educational Heritage (Società Italiana per lo Studio del Patrimonio Storico-Educativo, SIPSE) in 2017, aiming to recover, safeguard, and make accessible to scholars and the general public the school heritage kept in local museums, centers for documentations, and educational institutions, e.g., [85,86].…”

Learning Sciences from the Past. Recovery, Study, and Cataloging of a Historical Natural History School Museum

“…The latter comprises not only teaching collections but also libraries and archives, e.g., [73][74][75], which still need to be correctly preserved and made known to students and teachers. To achieve this goal, Meda and D'Ascenzo [67,76] underlined the establishment of educational museums, mostly based on academic institutions [77], entirely devoted to preserving and displaying the school heritage such as the Museo della Scuola e dell'Educazione "Mauro Laeng" in Rome, e.g., [78], the Museo dell'Educazione in Padua, e.g., [79], the Museo della Scuola e del Libro per l'Infanzia in Turin, e.g., [80], the Museo Didattico e della Didattica in Piacenza, e.g., [81], the Museo della Scuola "Paolo e Ornella Ricca" in Macerata, e.g., [82,83], and the Museo della scuola e dell'educazione popolare in Campobasso, e.g., [84]. Furthermore, it is noteworthy the establishment of the Italian Society for the Study of the Historical-Educational Heritage (Società Italiana per lo Studio del Patrimonio Storico-Educativo, SIPSE) in 2017, aiming to recover, safeguard, and make accessible to scholars and the general public the school heritage kept in local museums, centers for documentations, and educational institutions, e.g., [85,86].…”