B015291 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Italian

Part I: approaches and interpretative categories of the "new history" in the
contemporary age which are relevant for this Degree: illness and deviance; care and cure; gender and generations.
Part II: history of childhood and youth in the XXth century Italy, professions, institutions and specialized sciences for minors in Italy and in Florence

Both attending and not attending students, have to choose 2 vols from a) and 2 essays from b):
A) P. Dogliani (ed.) Giovani e generazioni nel mondo contemporaneo, Clueb, Bologna, 2009 (fino a p. 161),
Or P. Sorcinelli, A. Varni (eds.) Il secolo dei giovani: le nuove generazioni e la storia del Novecento, Donzelli, Roma, 2004.
Perry Willson, Women in Twentieth-Century Italy, New York, Palgrave- Macmillan,2010(excl.chap.2 and 8)
Or P.Guarnieri, Senza cattedra. L'Istituto di psicologia dell'Università di Firenze, FUP, Firenze, 2012.
B). P. Guarnieri, Dall'accoglienza alla cura. La riforma sanitaria nel brefotrofio degl'Innocenti di Firenze 1890-1918, Medicina e Storia , IV, 2004, 57-94.
P. Guarnieri, Un piccolo essere perverso. Il bambino nella cultura
scientifica italiana tra '800 e '900,"Contemporanea", IX, 2006, pp. 253-
284 (also on line)
P. Guarnieri, Pericolosi e in pericolo: alle origini del Tribunale dei minori in Italia, "Contemporanea", XI, 2, 2008, pp. 195 -219 (also on line)
G. De Michele, "Un'inguaribile incapacità di reazione al nuovo ambiente
di vita". Bambini meridionali al Nord e classi differenziali negli anni '50 e
'60, "Rivista sperimentale di freniatria", 134, 2010, pp. 12-22 (also on
line).
C) for not attending students, also one of the following volumes:
A. Badino, Strade in salita. Figlie e figli dell'immigrazione
meridionale al Nord, Carocci, Roma 2012.
A. Frances, Saving Normal. An insider's Revolts Against Out of Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, Harper Collins publ, 2013, only I Part.
S. Bernini, A. Madalena (eds.) , Bambini e Bambine nel tempo, "Genesis", XIII, 2, 2014, pp-5-132.

Integrative exam , 4 CFU:
A) Wilson 2010, B)Guarnieri 2006; C)one of the three volumes

knowledge: learning perspectives of the discipline which are relevant to
the student's training;
ability: developing an appropriate independent judgment and awareness
of the variety of approaches to "knowledge and to the sense of the past"
relating to the present.
skills: critical ability in the analysis and presentation of primary and secondary sources

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Metodi didattici Lectures with presentation and discussion of the materials (movies,
iconographical and archival sources) that involve the active participation of the attending students

Any changes will be communicated during the course and in the e-learning
platform of the course that will be activated. Students have to register to it.
Program for the supplementary examination : see "Reading List" (testi di riferimento)

final oral exam and midterm presentation which have to be agreed with the professor

The course consists of a general part on the variety of approaches and
interpretations in contemporary history with a focus on issues of cure and care of minors. It intend to propose a path which is relevant to this Degree, from late XIXth C to XXth C on the interactions between the new scientific knowledge and specialized institutions for early childhood, the profound changes in the traditional ones (such as the foundling hospitals) and the establishment of new institutions (OMNI and the Italian Juvenile Court), modern professionals and volunteer. Characters, events and experiences will be explained by the specific case of Florence (the Innocenti Institut, the Umberto I, the School for Special teachers etc..), that is internationally known and yet in many ways still unexplored precisely in the XXth C.