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B026185 - HISTORY OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN THE CONTEMPORARY AGE
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2016-17
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-STO/04 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
19/09/2016 ⇒ 22/12/2016
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian and 6 hours in English if possible for the students.
Course Content
Children, young people of both geneder and women have been often neglected in general history. This course shows that without them, gemeral history cannot be told as such. The relevance of the historical perspective for a better understanding and awareness of the present and of the future. with special regards for the aim of this curriculum.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
2 vols from a) and 2 articles amomng those in b) Moreover, the not attending students have to choose 1 item from c)
A) P. Willson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010, non chpt. 2 e 8.
P. Dogliani Storia dei giovani, Bruno Mondadori, 2003;
or Ead (ed. by) 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.
B) Save the Children, Le equilibriste. Rapporto mamme 2016 (on line) http://images.savethechildren.it/IT/f/img_pubblicazioni/img294_b.pdf?_ga=1.177695525.1242585949.1462801475,
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 (anche on line)
P. Guarnieri, Pericolosi e in pericolo: alle origini del Tribunale dei minori in Italia, "Contemporanea", XI, 2, 2008, pp. 195 -219 (anche 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 (anche on line).
Silvana Patriarca, Fear of Small Numbers: «Brown Babies» in Postwar Italy, Contemporanea, 18, 2015, pp. 537-567.
C) Not attending students have to choose 1 among the followings :
P.Guarnieri, Senza cattedra. L'Istituto di psicologia dell'Università di Firenze, FUP, Firenze, 2012.
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.
A) P. Willson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010, non chpt. 2 e 8.
P. Dogliani Storia dei giovani, Bruno Mondadori, 2003;
or Ead (ed. by) 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.
B) Save the Children, Le equilibriste. Rapporto mamme 2016 (on line) http://images.savethechildren.it/IT/f/img_pubblicazioni/img294_b.pdf?_ga=1.177695525.1242585949.1462801475,
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 (anche on line)
P. Guarnieri, Pericolosi e in pericolo: alle origini del Tribunale dei minori in Italia, "Contemporanea", XI, 2, 2008, pp. 195 -219 (anche 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 (anche on line).
Silvana Patriarca, Fear of Small Numbers: «Brown Babies» in Postwar Italy, Contemporanea, 18, 2015, pp. 537-567.
C) Not attending students have to choose 1 among the followings :
P.Guarnieri, Senza cattedra. L'Istituto di psicologia dell'Università di Firenze, FUP, Firenze, 2012.
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.
Learning Objectives
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 in understanding the past,
relating to the present.
skills: critical ability in the analysis and presentation of primary and
secondary sources
the student's training;
ability: developing an appropriate independent judgment and awareness
of the variety of approaches in understanding the past,
relating to the present.
skills: critical ability in the analysis and presentation of primary and
secondary sources
Prerequisites
none
Teaching Methods
Metodi didattici : Lectures and seminars with presentation and discussion of sources and research projects (movies,
iconographical and archival sources). Students are encouraged to have an active participation, and to create their own proposal of research.
iconographical and archival sources). Students are encouraged to have an active participation, and to create their own proposal of research.
Further information
Any changes will be communicated during the course and in the e-learning
platform . Students have to register to it.
platform . Students have to register to it.
Type of Assessment
final oral exams and seminar presentations during the course will be considered, evaluating knowledhe, abilities and expertises.
Course program
The course consists of a I 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.
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.