Publications

The experimental introduction of multilingualism, starting from 2014, in the schools of the Republic of San Marino has produced significant results on an educational level and at the same time has highlighted some critical issues in terms of linguistic competence, especially for those whose educational paths did not include the encounter with other languages.
The volume documents the path and the results of a research on multilingualism in schools – conducted by the Department of Human Sciences of the University of San Marino a decade after the start of the experiment – ​​which allowed to analyze its strengths and to identify its most problematic aspects, bringing out suggestions and proposals for the revision of the legislation.

The text collects data from a monitoring of the first three years of experimental implementation of the teaching of “Ethics, culture and society” (ECS), as an alternative to the teaching of the Catholic religion for students of the Republic of San Marino who do not avail themselves of it.
After having presented the cultural context in which – at an international level – the debate on religious teachings in public schools takes place, the volume illustrates the path that led to the introduction of ECS teaching and its profound pedagogical structure.
The second part of the volume is dedicated to the analysis of monitoring data: questionnaires, interviews and focus groups through which the opinions of teachers, students, parents and school principals were surveyed.
A generally positive picture emerges, in which the people interviewed express appreciation for this initiative and help to outline possible developments of the same.

In the field of cultural memory studies, the representation of trauma at the family level is certainly a central theme. Among the authors who have contributed most to this debate is the feminist scholar Marianne Hirsch who, starting in the 1990s, coined a concept that would later be globally recognized as one of the main paradigms for interpreting the mediation processes of the past: postmemory. How is the memory of a trauma transmitted at the family level? Is it right to talk about transmission? Or is it necessary to adopt a different perspective? What role do subsequent generations have who inherit trauma as a "family language"? What contribution can art make in the reconstruction of this difficult past? Starting from these questions, this book discusses the concept of postmemory from an interdisciplinary perspective, proposing for the first time to the Italian public the translation of three texts by Marianne Hirsch (one co-written with Leo Spitzer) that marked three fundamental moments in the evolution of the concept.

Studies on the social construction of masculinity draw inspiration from the definition of plural masculinities, proposed in the 1990s by Raewyn Connell in her «Masculinities». Following several critical rereadings of the proposed theoretical framework, Connell publishes two contributions that attempt to frame the concept of hegemonic masculinity in a contemporary sense and according to the challenges posed by the global world. Starting from the rereading of the texts of the Australian sociologist, proposed for the first time in Italian translation, the volume questions the new forms of masculinity fueled by the digital, with a specific focus on the forms of defensive masculinity constructed within the so-called «manosphere». The contemporary construction of masculinities also moves in the virtual territory, configuring a variegated, stratified and sometimes blurred fresco. The systematic theorization proposed by Connell constitutes a valid compass for orienting oneself within this variegated and complex geography.

How are migrations narrated and how is their memory transmitted? If the museum, the archive and the monument are the institutional forms of the memory of the nation-state, migratory movements challenge the social and semiotic framework within which the past is narrated and its memory is transmitted. Born from a project at the Emigration Research Centre of the Republic of San Marino and its Emigrant Museum, the volume collects ten contributions that reflect on the forms of public memory in the narration of migrations. The choice to bring together the points of view of scholars and cultural operators offers the reader a reflection on the ways of narrating and transmitting the memory of migrations in the contemporary world starting from case studies and concrete design experiences.

By comparing the results of research conducted by scholars from different disciplines – demography, pedagogy, political science, sociology, history –, the book analyses the basic characteristics of the youth condition in Italy, reconstructing its evolution between the 20th and 21st centuries. The essays examine the reasons that have fueled the progressive delay in the transition to adulthood and the social costs that this forward slide has determined; the size and trajectories of migratory movements animated by young people, paying attention to the causes that have favoured this exodus and the impact that the latter has had on the demographic structure of the country and on its possibilities for economic recovery; the transformations that the multifaceted and complex relationship between young people and consumer practices has undergone from the Second World War to today; the evolution of the forms of political participation of young people, starting from the student protests of 1968; the persistent and significant gender inequalities present in the labour market and more generally in society; finally, the essential features of the process that led to an increasing participation of foreign students within Italian universities.

Starting from a brief exposition of museological reflections of recent years and from an analysis of the perception of the change of museums in public opinion, the volume aims to reaffirm the capacity of the museum to be an educational and learning tool and, above all, in the territories, to be a strong element of integration and promotion of citizenship paths. A text for educators, teachers, curators and administrators of museum institutions.

Starting from a brief examination of the contemporary debate on the issue of combating gender violence, the volume presents the consequences that the Law of 20 June 2008 n. 97 "Prevention and repression of violence against women and gender" has had in terms of training results and awareness on the population involved in the Republic of San Marino.

The volume addresses the fascinating theme of the connections between theater and citizenship, enhancing its educational dimension. The reflection that emerges is more necessary than ever today in the worlds of education called to develop and build new knowledge and skills to match a political, social, cultural and human complexity that always presents strong ambivalences and not only opportunities. Theater becomes necessary for education precisely because of its ability to achieve a synthesis of knowledge, overcoming fragmentations, going beyond the boundaries of disciplines in order to recompose in a dialogic, problematizing way, through a language that reconnects mind and body, the cognitive aspect with the emotional one. The connection between theater and citizenship is also strengthened in the recognition of the dimension of memory and denunciation, of the unveiling of uncomfortable and forgotten realities: the possibility of looking at the world with different eyes, of imagining and building new citizenships, of communicating our respective narratives of possible alternative worlds, opens up.
The volume includes contributions from directors, actors and university professors.

The socially expected behavior patterns related to status both the male and female ones still appear capable of orientation preferences and ways of acting of girls and boys in the different spheres of social life: from school to the world of work, from family relationships to friendships, through consumer styles, the relationship with the media, science and new technologies. The volume presents the results of a survey on the daily life and imagination of over 1.000 high school students between the ages of 14 and 19, aimed at detecting and deconstructing persistent differences and inequalities in the different spheres of social life linked to gender belonging. The picture offered by the survey, however, does not limit itself to reflecting a youth reality characterized by the persistence of differences, even notable ones, that refer to gender and, to an equally significant extent, to social origin. In fact, there are numerous signs of a rapprochement between boys and girls with respect to some daily practices. It is the stereotypical visions of gender roles, instead, that seem to transform much more slowly than social practices.