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Journal of History of Education RSE  is an international, peer-reviewed and open-access journal focused on the global significance and impact of history of education. It covers all the theoretical and practical aspects of the history of education, as well as scholarship and applied research. It is the official journal of CIRSE (Italian Center for History of Education), the field’s leading scientific society in Italy, and has been published since 2014 (since 1982 with another title). The journal is biannual and publishes both special and miscellaneous issues. It encourages submissions from a range of intersecting sub-fields in intellectual, social, political, economic, and cultural history including (but not limited to): sociology of knowledge, history of childhood and youth, public and urban history,  cultural and comparative history, history of ideas, history of emotions.


 

Current IssueVol 12, No 2 (2025)

Published December 11, 2025

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Table of Contents

Non-Monographic Section Articles

A history of educational modernity between science and politics
Camilla Boschi, Anita Gramigna
3-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-16730
Faith and Education: the Catholic Church’s influence on educational policy during Getúlio Vargas’s provisional government (1930-1934)
Nicola Riccardi
11-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-16845
The Sound of Images. Musical Resonances Between Story and Illustration
Leonardo Acone
21-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-17903
Imperial sequential art: internal and foreign policy in the pages of Il Giornale del Balilla
Domenico Francesco Antonio Elia
31-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-17918
Childhood and folklore in illustrated books: the collections “Cuentos de mi país” (1986-1993) and “Cuentamérica” (1997-2005)
Sabrina Luján Martín
47-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-17956
Deformity in Children’s Illustrations: A Historical and Interpretative Journey between the Uncanny and the Educational Dimension
Silvia Pacelli
59-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-17961
Teaching Careers and Mobility in the Province of Sassari at the Turn of the 20th Century: A Statistical Approach
Federico Piseri
73-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-18094

Book Reviews

C. Gunderman et al., Key Terms of Public History. Berlin, De Gruyter Brill, 2025, pp. 292
Chiara Martinelli
87-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-17471
C. Petruzzi, Due maestri a colloquio. Giuseppe Lombardo Radice e Angelo Patri. Roma, Anicia, 2024, pp. 279
Antonella Cagnolati
91-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-17500
G. Armenise, D. De Leo, Immaginario: intreccio di vivenze. Viperetta vs Violetta. Prefazione di Antonella Cagnolati. Lecce, Milella, 2024, pp. 100
Carmen Petruzzi
93-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-17506
E. Girotti, Citizenship Education and the Curriculum in the European Schools System. A multidimensional history (1957-1994). Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2024, pp. 188
Luigiaurelio Pomante
97-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-18103

Report

The Higher Council of Public Education and the Governance of the University System in the Republican Age
Giorgia Lattanzi
99-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-18054
Reconstructing Memory, Imagining the Future. Dialogues among New Generations of Scholars
Chiara Lepri
103-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-18203
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Journal of History of Education RSE  is an international, peer-reviewed and open-access journal focused on the global significance and impact of history of education. It covers all the theoretical and practical aspects of the history of education, as well as scholarship and applied research. It is the official journal of CIRSE (Italian Center for History of Education), the field’s leading scientific society in Italy, and has been published since 2014 (since 1982 with another title). The journal is biannual and publishes both special and miscellaneous issues. It encourages submissions from a range of intersecting sub-fields in intellectual, social, political, economic, and cultural history including (but not limited to): sociology of knowledge, history of childhood and youth, public and urban history,  cultural and comparative history, history of ideas, history of emotions).


ISSN 2384-8294 (print) ISSN 2532-2818 (online)
Rivista Italiana di Storia dell'Educazione, Registration at Pisa Law Court no. 1407
 
Editors in Chief
Caterina Sindoni (University of Messina), CIRSE president
Carla Callegari (University of Padua), CIRSE vice-president
Stefano Oliviero (University of Florence), CIRSE secretary

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