Graduate at the Università di Pavia under the lead of X. Toscani, Maurizio Piseri has been Researcher of Storia della Pedagogia (M-PED/02) at the Università della Valle d’Aosta-Université de la Vallée d’Aoste from March 01th 2005 until September 30th 2011. Since 1 October 2011 he is Associate Professor in the same University. Actually he is teaching History of Pedagogy and Education and Comparative Education at the Università della Valle d’Aosta.
He has begun to collaborate with the Historical and Geographical Department “C. M. Cipolla” of the Pavia University soon after his degree. Afterwards he started collaborating with the Pedagogy Department of the Università Cattolica of Milan in 1998. He has held courses of the SSD M-PED/02 from 2001 to 2005 at the Università Cattolica (seat of Piacenza). He has taken part from 2002 until 2009 to the PRIN coordinated by Prof. Angelo Bianchi like a member of the unity of Pavia (leaded by Prof. Giovanni Vigo). Overall the focuses of his studies are the institutional and social history of schooling (with particular care towards the educational rules of Hapsburg monarchy), the history of literacy, and the history of infant schools. The most meaningful nucleus of his publications pertains to the study of the social and educational reality of the Lombardy among XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, focusing on the popular literacy, the life and the training of the teachers and the social background of schooling. By the way, a monograph and essays have been dedicated to social stratification of literacy and schooling in lombard area. Regarding the Hapsburg compulsory schools he has realized a series of works concerning the scholastic reform of Maria Teresa, among which an articulated and ample monograph. About the infant schools, it is to signal a preparatory research for a mapping of the kindergartens in Lombardy, a series of contributions concerning Ferrante Aporti and a monograph concerning the origins and legacies of Ferrante Aporti educational thought. During the PRIN 2002 he has conducted a census of the grammar schools in the countrysides of Lombardy between 1750 and 1850. This research has produced some essays and a monograph published in 2012. During PRIN 2002 he has begun and accomplished the mapping of the elementary schools in Napoleonic age in Lombardy. During PRIN 2005 he has fulfilled the mapping of the elementary schools in the Regno Italico. At the moment he is dealing with the census of elementary schools in Piedmont and Aosta Valley 1750-1850. To signal, finally, his participation in conferences of national and international relevance (Saint Petersburg, Krakow, Smolensk).
