Abstract
The Pious Institute for poor country deaf mutes of Milan was opened in
1854 and quickly gained fame and stability, allowing it to operate continuously for the education
of the deaf until the early 1990s when school activities ceased. Today, the legacy
of the institution has been taken up by a Foundation, which in recent years has promoted
various initiatives to enhance its historical-educational heritage. Firstly, a project was carried
out to arrange and catalog the library and then a significant part of the photographic
materials has been organized and digitized. This essay focuses on presenting both the
sources and the projects. Moreover, it aims to specify how the easier access to the heritage
allows the engagement of a wide variety of potential users and particularly of the Italian
deaf community, facilitated in the process of defining its linguistic and cultural identity
through the knowledge of its own history.
| Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Between words and images: the valorization of the historical-educational heritage at the Pio Istituto dei Sordi in Milan |
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| Lingua originale | Italian |
| Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Il patrimonio storico-educativo come fonte per la Public History of Education. Tra buone pratiche e nuove prospettive |
| Editor | Anna Ascenzi, Gianfranco Bandini, Carla Ghizzoni |
| Pagine | 745-760 |
| Numero di pagine | 16 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2024 |
Keywords
- Pious Institute for the Deaf of Milan
- historical-educational heritage
- XIX-XX century
- history of special education
- public history of education