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The introduction of civic education in the scholastic curriculum has offered to schools new opportunities for coping with the study of Resistance movement and other events occurred in contemporary history. Through some relevant didactic unit, the paper aims at giving to teachers some pratical examples, using the methodology of the Public History of Education.

The paper deals with how Public History and Public History of Education can be applied in secondary schools. Several advantages can be achieved through their presence: firstly, they enhance the role of workshops in studying history; secondly, they increase the motivation in Special Education Needs students. Three project works will be presented as they show how Public History of Education can stimulate interdisciplinarity.

This paper aims at describing the experience carried on by some pupils attending the third years at the vocational institute "Sismondi-Pacinotti" in Pescia, in the scholastic year 2018-19. Thruogh lessons and theatral workshops, students have discussed the first article of the Italian Constitution.

The introduction aims at underlining how the Resistance movement has been dealt throughout the political debate hold in republican Italy, summing up how scholastic law deals with the topic. Eventually, it sums up the following parts of the volume.