I “reperti” delle pratiche possono aiutare a entrare in contatto con le didattiche disciplinari?

Abstract

The communication is about an interdisciplinary research project about school exercise books in mathematics and their use in a public history project. The occasion came from the initiatives for the 150 years of Canton Ticino’s University for Teacher education, founded in 1873. The exercise books come from the school’s archive and have allowed us to see teaching practices in the field of arithmetic in different school degrees by teachers with different degrees of scientific and didactic preparation. The results of the research were used in different initiatives such as a publication about how to study exercise books (with the aim to give our students a methodological handbook based on examples of studying teacher’s practices across exercise books) as well as in an escape game about our school’s past during the 150-years-celebrations. We consider that this kind of public historic history may be very useful for studies in didactics in general.