Textbooks and Citizenship in modern and contemporary Europe

The essays in this book are focused on the production and the use of textbooks in different countries and different periods of European history. By indicating some particularly important moments in the evolution of textbooks, they allow a better understanding of the educational history and of some other related topics.

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Paolo Bianchini is associate professor in History of Education at the University of Turin. His main topics are the history of education and culture between 18th and 20th centuries and the history of textbooks. Roberto Sani is full professor at the University of Macerata. He is promoter and editor of the international journal «History of Education and Children s Literature» and author of many important essays.

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Inhalt: Paolo Bianchini/Roberto Sani: The history of education between «Invented Archives» and Actual Research Paolo Bianchini: Didactics and Politics. The Birth of School Subjects in Pre-Unification Piedmont (1814-1839) Gianfranco Bandini: Teaching geography after the unification of Italy. A GIS application for the history of education Ebubekir Ceylan: An Analysis of History of Turkish Education: Sources, Pioneers and Approaches Roberto Sani/Juri Meda/Anna Ascenzi/Marta Brunelli: Publishing for the School and Textbooks in the Fascist Twenty-Year Period. From the Gentile Reform to the End of The WWII (1923-1945) Lambros Varelas: Dictatorship and Literature Teaching in Modern Greek Secondary Education (1936-1940) Ana María Badanelli Rubio/Kira Mahamud Angulo/Miguel Somoza Rodríguez: Gender Identities and Political Power in Francoist School Textbooks (1940-1975) Doina-Olga tef nescu/Alexandra Florea/Cristiana Petru/Andra Maria Roescu: 20 Years Of School Textbooks History in Romania (1989-2009) Giorgio Chiosso «Forming the eminently moral and able man». The reading books after Unification.