Person and Education Sciences

The doctoral programme aims to introduce students to the sources, methods and operational instrumentation of scientific research in the priority field of investigation. Contextual to the direct experience in a guided research activity is the in-depth study of the most up-to-date methodologies and interpretative orientations with reference to the relationships between the history of society and institutions, the production and circulation of ideas and creative facts as they are realized in scientific practices, literature and the arts, aspects investigated as a particular expression of a historical universe innervated by the constitutive principles of tradition Italian and European cultural culture. The training activity makes use of cycles of lectures, seminars, exercises and guided research with the involvement of the professors of the college and external experts of clear reputation, partly common and partly specific to each address activated. Secondly, a further incentive is offered by participation in the research programs of the Institutes that coordinate the doctorate, by collaboration in the drafting of their scientific publications and in the organization of conferences organized by them.

In particular, the training and research programme covers the following areas: sources and methods of research on the modern and contemporary age; documentation and archival studies; political and institutional history; History of Political Thought; history of culture; history of the language of modern and contemporary politics; history of science; religious history; history of the European churches; social history; civilizations and cultures of the Mediterranean area; Western and Eastern Europe; history of historiography; contemporary historiography; history of literary and artistic genres; literary historiography; theory of literature; language, writing, literature; the poetics; criticism: concepts, theories and methods; criticism as a literary genre; critical writings; the criticism of the poets; criticism and didactics of literature; sociology of literature; the social influence of literature; teaching-learning processes in different theoretical perspectives; critical problems related to models of cognitive development and to the functional and structural aspects of thought activity.