The recent establishment of the Italian Society for the study of Historical-Educational Heritage (SIPSE)

During the III IInternational Conference on School Material Culture >>, Production, Use and Circulation of School Furnishings and Teaching Aids between Europe and Latin America in XIX and XX Centuries, which was held in Macerata in the days 12-13 September 2017, the SIPSE-Italian Society for the study of Historical-Educational Heritage was officially established. Following the model of the Sociedad Espaoola para el Estudio del Patrimonio Historico-Educativo (SEPHE) and of similar societies existing in other countries as well, the SIPSE targets several goals -as by its Statute, which is here reproduced. The main objects of the society are: to take a census and protect the Italian educational heritage; to promote research focused on this heritage and, at the same time, to form a new generation of historians specialised in the field and finally to foster and disseminate the knowledge of such heritage through specific educational and cultural initiatives, which imply a strong cooperation with the Italian centre for the historical educational research (CIRSE), with the universities who signed the Statute, with the schools and with the museums engaged in preserving and promoting the Italian iwidespread heritage of school and education >>.