30/06/2026 14:30
- 17:30
HALL: Pola - A209
Contact:
Ruozzi F.
Chair:
Cadeddu F.
Catholic women who devoted themselves to education played a crucial role in the cultural, social, and religious formation of generations of children, young people, and adults, making a decisive contribution to the construction of both formal and informal educational systems between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This contribution aims to explore the plurality of these experiences - religious women, consecrated laywomen, educators, pedagogues, school principals, and missionaries - highlighting both their agency and the institutional, theological, and gender constraints within which they operated.
Drawing on a historical and interdisciplinary approach that combines Church history, history of education, gender studies, and cultural studies, the open panel proposes to analyze how these women developed original pedagogical practices, often in critical dialogue with male educational models and with the transformations of modernity. Particular attention will be paid to the religious and civic networks in which they acted, to the educational languages they employed, and to the ways in which their work contributed to redefining the relationship between Catholicism, society, and education.
