Paper in the panel AIPH21 - Comparative Experiences and Perspectives on Teaching Public History in Different Countries and Continents. AIPH 2019 S. Maria Capua a Vetere

1. AIPH21 - Comparative Experiences and Perspectives on Teaching Public History in Different Countries and Continents
Public History in Italian University:
how to fill the gap between experimentation and tradition
Enrica Salvatori - UNIPI

2. Teaching officially
✤ postgraduate courses (Unimore - Fondazione
Feltrinelli+Unimi)
✤ single courses (es. Salvatori - Ravveduto)
✤ workshop-type initiatives or center (PublicHistoryLab
- Unica ; Unisalento)
✤ seminars (rounds of)

3. Other possibilities
✤ teacher training courses (generally NOT organized by
universities, but by institutes, centers, foundations,
associations)
✤ unofficial single courses (PH unlabeled activities,
probably numerous but not detectable)

4. Postcard of theWWI
✤ Ethnographic Museum - La
Spezia
✤ High School Students
✤ Course of Digital Public
History
✤ Course of Text Encoding
✤ Course of Digital Philology
course degree in
Digital Humanities

5. ✤ no degree courses (BA
or MA)
✤ no summer schools
✤ no path nor
curriculum within a
course degree

6. Reasons
✤ institutional and
administrative rigidity
(disciplinary sectors,
accreditation criteria)
✤ immaturity of the
educational proposal
(AIPH task/duty?)
✤ academic re-production
by budding or cloning
(low turn over)
✤ inadequacy of the
traditional teaching
methodology
(unprepared teachers)
almost all the possible roads
have been implemented, numbers are still low

7. Where to proceed
✤ institutional and
administrative rigidity
(disciplinary sectors,
accreditation criteria)
✤ immaturity of the
educational proposal
(AIPH task/duty?)
✤ academic re-production
by budding or cloning
(low turn over)
✤ inadequacy of the
traditional teaching
methodology
(unprepared teachers)

8. Filling the gap by
✤ structuring the pressure from below (label PH, Public
Historian) and strengthening the link between education and
work
✤ offering smart solutions to the “third mission” of the University
(SUMMER SCHOOL, JOINT COURSES, CURRICULA)
✤ stressing regulations to implement different teaching methods
✤ asking for the creation of an historical disciplinary
meta-sector that unites all the existing ones (M-STO)
while maintaining them

9. enrica.salvatori@unipi.it