Digitisation
The digital reproduction of historical-educational documents enables innovative forms of research into the sources and the data they convey.
Laboratorio ricerca storico-educativa (RDCD)
Laboratory for Research on History of Education, Documentation, Preservation and Digitalisation (RDCD)
It is active in research in educational history, with a focus on material sources. The ambition is to bring together different professions - librarians, researchers - for a common valorisation and research project.
The Swiss education system
Research aimed at contextualising Ticino's school, its aims and organisation in the context of the Swiss education system.
History of education in Ticino
Archival research on educational policies, teaching practices and key figures in Ticino schools.
Studying archive fonds
Studying a personal archive or a corpus of documents (e.g. pupils' notebooks) allows one to study the "school culture" diachronically.
Transfer studies in education
Studies on the role of Italian-speaking Switzerland as a place of transfer, transformation and reuse of pedagogical ideas.
Mission and objectives
The Laboratory for Research on History of Education, Documentation, Preservation and Digitalisation's mission is the discovery, preservation in appropriate locations, care, scientific exploration and valorisation of historical educational materials from Italian-speaking Switzerland (textbooks, school curricula, exercise books and many other documents).
Department
The Laboratory for Research on History of Education, Documentation, Preservation and Digitalisation is part of the Department of Education and Learning / University of Teacher Education.
Head
Wolfgang Sahlfeld, Professor in History of EducationCollaborators
Luca Cignetti, Professor in Didactics of ItalianOrnella Monti-Jauch, Head of the Library of the Department of Education and Learning / University of Teacher Education
Stefania Petralia, Librarian
In the Bachelor's degree programmes in pre-school education and Bachelor's degree programmes in primary education, the Workshop offers in particular the possibility of conducting a Bachelor's thesis on a topic related to the history of education.
In the Master's programme in Teaching for Secondary I level, the workshop offers the course "Historical and educational system aspects", which proposes an interactive approach, in blended learning mode, to the very concept of the educational system and to some salient themes of the Ticino and Swiss educational system. These themes are developed both from the point of view of the evolution of the system over time and from the point of view of the most recent system monitoring results.
In the Teaching Diploma for Upper Secondary Education, the laboratory curates the module "Ethics, evolution and institutional role of the upper secondary school (SMS) in the Ticino education system", which enables trainee teachers to approach the concept of the baccalaureate school, the place of the SMS in the Swiss education system and some salient aspects of the Swiss and Ticino education system through blended learning courses and others that alternate between numerous presentations by external experts and managers of the Ticino SMS.​​​​
In the Master's programme in Teaching for Secondary I level, the workshop offers the course "Historical and educational system aspects", which proposes an interactive approach, in blended learning mode, to the very concept of the educational system and to some salient themes of the Ticino and Swiss educational system. These themes are developed both from the point of view of the evolution of the system over time and from the point of view of the most recent system monitoring results.
In the Teaching Diploma for Upper Secondary Education, the laboratory curates the module "Ethics, evolution and institutional role of the upper secondary school (SMS) in the Ticino education system", which enables trainee teachers to approach the concept of the baccalaureate school, the place of the SMS in the Swiss education system and some salient aspects of the Swiss and Ticino education system through blended learning courses and others that alternate between numerous presentations by external experts and managers of the Ticino SMS.​​​​
The Laboratory actively cooperates with the Library of the Department of Education and Learning / University of Teacher Education and other institutions in charge of preserving sources, such as the Salita dei Frati Library or the State Archives.
It collaborates intensively with researchers in the history of education in Switzerland and abroad. In particular, the laboratory is a founding member of the Swiss Educational History Association, which runs the national web portal History of Education Switzerland.
In addition, the laboratory is an active member of the 'history of education' working group of the Swiss Society for Research in Education.
It collaborates intensively with researchers in the history of education in Switzerland and abroad. In particular, the laboratory is a founding member of the Swiss Educational History Association, which runs the national web portal History of Education Switzerland.
In addition, the laboratory is an active member of the 'history of education' working group of the Swiss Society for Research in Education.
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Laboratorio ricerca storico-educativa, documentazione, conservazione e digitalizzazione
Dipartimento formazione e apprendimento / Alta scuola pedagogica
Piazza San Francesco 16
CH-6600 Locarno