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Record Nr.

UNINA9910899897903321

Autore

Tasca Luisa

Titolo

The Science of the Child in Liberal Italy / / by Luisa Tasca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031657788

3031657780

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood, , 2634-6540

Disciplina

320.51

Soggetti

Italy - History

Europe - History - 1492-

Intellectual life - History

Education - History

Children's literature

History of Italy

History of Modern Europe

Intellectual History

History of Education

Children's Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. The Massacre of the Innocents -- 2. How Italian Children Lost Their Souls -- 3. The Century of the Child in Italy -- 4. Giannetti and Giannettini -- 5. The Margins.

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates a forgotten chapter of history: the role of Italian sciences within the child study movement. Between the 1880s and the First World War, children became the focus of unprecedented professional and scientific interest in Europe and the United States. The bodies and psyches of children, their care and growth, their development, 'normal' and 'abnormal', intelligence, and moral sense, constituted a new field of research. Italy, which had just become a nation, also took part in this international movement: on the study of the child, a substantial part of the Italian ruling class launched itself,



with a mixture of enthusiasm, hope and concern, on the frontier between different areas of knowledge. Using a broad spectrum of sources, this book offers the first overview of the Italian scientific movement of child study. Luisa Tasca is an Independent Researcher based in Florence, Italy.