Gli archivi scolastici in classe. Un laboratorio alla scuola primaria per ricostruire la storia della scuola attraverso i registri dell’insegnante

Abstract

In the last thirty years there has been a real historiographical revolution that has introduced a new way of making history of education and school. Historians of education have begun to investigate a wide range of new sources and to focus more attention on places dedicated to the preservation of the historical-educational heritage in an attempt to open what has been called the «black box of schooling». These places are represented not only by libraries and school museums but also by school archives. These are privileged spaces for the implementation of public history practices. Thus, this article aims, to highlight the heuristic potential of school archives and how the research carried out in them by the educational historian can be spread outside academic environments and transformed into educational pathways for schools, as those that were made with some primary schools of Macerata.