The Birth of the School Subjects in Pre-Unification Piedmont

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The aim of the research is to investigate the birth and the development of the school subjects in Piedmont (the region around Turin) before the unification of Italy, when the Piedmont’s model of school was extended to all the Country becoming the national one.
This goal will be reached by exploring the history of the textbooks, but also of their authors and publishers, as well as the evolution of the laws and of the rules which directed the piedmont’s school between 1815 and 1861.

Sources used:

Edisco for HOL: data base which contains all the school books produced in Piedmont between 1815 and 1861, at least 3000 records
The data base of the piedmont’s educators, pedagogues and school men
The data base of the piedmont’s publishers
The documental digital library (laws, school programmes, textbooks)

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The Birth of the School Subjects in Pre-Unification Piedmont

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