A “história material da escola” como fator de desenvolvimento da pesquisa histórico-educativa na Itália

The paper aims to reflect on the school material culture by offering an analytical review of the most outstanding authors – particularly Spanish and Italian ones – and texts about this theme. The study is intended to analyse them in their cultural context in order to leverage them both as a reference point for current studies as well as a counterpoint to advance the research in the field. This article is organized into two possible approaches to a such complex historiographical category as the one of school material culture. The first approach particularly emphasizes the material aspects of this category, in order to retrace the relations with the original role and didactical function of material school objects in the classroom. The second one, however, considers the aspect of this “materiality” not only as the starting point of educational processes but also a point of arrival of a production process which originated in the growing demand of school supplies – which represents the true axis of this research.