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The scenario that we have here outlined, allows us to highlight a series of historiographical issues and sectors, related to the fascist twenty-year period, which have not been explored yet, or which are worth to be studied in depth. For example, if, on the on hand, there are important studies concerning the strategies and features of the book production for the school put into action by the great publishers of the Centre-North Italy, on the other hand we lack of researches on other important publishers (such as Sandron, Carabba and a great part of the publishing houses from the South-Italy) (Galfré 2005 , pp. 51-57; Chiosso 1997 ; TESEO ‘900 ). Apart from the researches developed about the Florentine and Milanese reality, the state of the research is lacking, especially with regard to the relations among the school-publishing, the cultural and scientific institutions (universities, single secondary schools of the territory), the local lobbies, and the peripheral organs of the PNF. It should be added that, with the exception of the studies dedicated to the well-known figures of Giovanni Gentile, Ernesto Codignola and Giuseppe Lombardo Radice, it is not well examined yet the role played by those particular intellectuals, who were the editorial collaborators. A separate discussion should be reserved to the studies of the analysis of the real impact of the fascistisation process on the world of teachers and pupils themselves, and on the cultural and educational models which did the textbooks transmit. Such a kind of approach, in recent years, has renovated the modalities of use of the historical sources. With this regard, significant hints have come from the researches carried out about the school notebooks, and in general on the so-called «school children’s writings» of the fascist period (Meda 2009 ; Montino 2005 ).
The national Italian project of cataloguing FISQED – Fondi Storici di Quaderni ed Elaborati Didattici (Historical Collections of Textbooks and Didactical Works) should be mentioned, which is coordinated by the national observatory established by the Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell'Autonomia Scolastica (ex-INDIRE) in Florence. The project is aimed at promoting in Italy this kind of documentary patrimony, which is of great scientific interest, thanks to a detailed census of the collections, together with the institution of a documentary network, and consequently the implementation and development of an on line accessible collective catalogue. The gaps and the difficulties which emerge when one tries to deepen old trends of research or to follow new study sectors, are the direct consequence of applying a new historiographical approach, which starts from the awareness that the complexity of the historical reality cannot be explored without considering the political and ideological dynamics of a given historical period, and that we should necessarily take into account all that facets and aspects which, more in general, pertain to the cultural context, to the dynamics of the costume and of the mentality too.
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