Title: The Necessary Step
Subtitle: Cataloguing to Recognize and Enhance the Value of School Heritage
Subject Classification:  Education, History, Anthropology  
BIC Classification: JN, HB, JH
BISAC Classification: EDU016000, EDU034000, SOC002010
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Apr 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-100-8
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-101-5

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Description

This book represents the conclusion of the first comprehensive research project conducted in Italy within the Italian Scientific Society dedicated to the study of historical-educational heritage (SEPSI) to promote the legal recognition of school heritage. The aim is to establish a base to future research in the field, providing the scientific community with tools for the safeguarding, protection, and enhancement of the historical school heritage.

There is much of value in historical educational materials conserved in schools, which may be at risk of dispersal due to their obsolescence. This edited collection illustrates the numerous creative and innovative methods through which teachers can use this heritage, not only for history teaching but for interdisciplinary educational purposes.

One of the most straightforward and sustainable methods is the cataloguing of these objects within the classroom, which can be employed as a learning methodology. To this end, a comparative analysis of existing cataloguing tools is conducted, to identify solutions and new sets of descriptors for the effective, simple, yet scholarly cataloguing of “obsolete” objects still in the possession of educational establishments. The aim is to demonstrate the effectiveness of what authors have defined as “pedagogical cataloguing”; an educational technique that can assist in the development of disciplinary and transferable competencies.

The book will be of value to educators, researchers, and academics engaged in the field of education sciences, as well as educational, government and administrative institutions.

Biography

Editor(s):  Marta Brunelli is an Associate Professor of General and Social Education at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage, and Tourism of the University of Macerata (Italy). In addition to teaching courses in Heritage Education, Museum Education and Educational Tourism, since 2012 she has been in charge of the educational services of the "Paolo & Ornella Ricca" School History Museum of the same University, of which she has been Vice-Director since 2021.

Francesca Davida Pizzigoni is Researcher at the University of Turin (Italy), where she teaches on History of Education and Children’s Literature. As a Researcher at the National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research (INDIRE) of the Italian Ministry of Education, she worked on the material culture of schools as driving innovative education and she promoted the creation of the School Museums Network

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