Project History on line University of Macerata

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Project History on lineUniversity of Macerata
Chapter Laws and Official Texts

• WP3 Studying History On Line
• Action 1 Creation of a Training Package
• for the historical research

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Creation of a training package for the
historical research

• The Macerata University Unit the topic
• Laws and official Texts concerning the choise and
  adoption of textbooks in italian schools from the
  Unification of the italian State (1861)
• through the early fascist twenty-ears period
  (1928),
• up to the end of the Second World War (1945)

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The Training Package

• The Training Package is aimed at providing a
  guide to the study of history for everybody who
  would like to approach the historical research,
  such as students of secondary school, university
  students, PhD students, researchers
• and also aimed at assisting them in acquiring
• 3 important skills, which are

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Training Package

• 1) a correct methodology of research which
  include the knowledge and comprehension of the
  diverse typologies of historical sources
  (normative text for the school)
• 2) the ability in searching, finding and
  selecting the above-mentioned sources both in
  Libraies or Archives and in the digital world
  (electronic databases and Web)
• 3) the competency in correctly making use of the
  sources (analysis, description, quote) within the
  historiographical research

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The GRID

• The Macerata Unit had decided to strictly follow
  the grid which has been discussed among the
  partners during the Berlanga de Duero meeting
  (10-13 September 2008).
• A detailed structure has been developed in order
  to facilitate the assemblage of the various
  chapter into the final document (the Training
  Package).
• The specified paragraphs can guide the various
  partners in elaborating the assigned chapter in a
  omogeneus way

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The GRID

• The Laws and official Textes has been
  developed, in hypertextual format (i.e. with the
  use of external links, both to on line resources
  in the Web, and in the Portal HOL), and the
  following (5) points which constitute the
  above-mentioned grid
• description of general features of the law-texts
  as historical sources definition, hierarchy and
  typologies of laws, and general aspects of laws
  as shaped by the values of each particular
  social-cultural environment
• 2) description and analysis of specific
  features of the law-texts regarding the
  school-system, and their role as source for the
  historical-educational field

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The GRID

• 3) example of use of this particular
  historical source (the law-texts for the school),
  with regard to a specific historical-educational
  topic the case of the work of the Commission for
  the revision of textbooks in Italy during the
  fascist regime (1923-1928). The exemplification
  will be carried on by making use of the full-text
  of the Circulars and other official texts which
  have been digitised inside the national database
  prepared by the Macerata unit-partner
  (ITL-Italian textbooks legislation,
  http//www.history-on-line.eu/itl.aspx)
• 4) practical examples of documents are
  analysed and described in order to make
  history-students gain competency in correctly
  analysing, describing, citing and quoting this
  kind of source inside a written historical
  research
• 5) detailed instructions are given in order
  to make history-students able to search and find
  this particular kind of sources, both in
  historical archives, paper indexes, specific
  data-bases, and finally in the digital world of
  the web (on line repertories, collections and
  data-bases).