The Centre’s main goal consists in the documentation and research of South Tyrol’s educational history, based on defined key points and connected to over regional and international perspectives.
The theoretical foundation used for this research is the conception of school as “institutional actor“ theorised by Helmut Fend (2006), using a widened concept based upon action-theoretical, system-theoretical and institution centred approaches. This scientific background designs a theoretical concept of school fitted for the social and pedagogical research field.