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The idea of pedagogically reconsidering the figure of the maternal mother, that I nurtured in my heart and in my mind had some positive repercussions. Indeed certain preconceptions resulted as being rather relative as well as a number of basic premises were elaborated for an informed reading of the "mother´s mother´s" care and educational practices. In such a context, the maternal grandmother´s peculiarity is that of cooperating, even more than other grandparents, to the psychic and affective integration of the grandchild, through her presence and her educa-tional and caring practices (which are renewed or de-structured from mother to mother) as well as through her family tales and narrations, which, when grandchildren become adults, will form the cherished memories of the "birth home".

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Massimiliano Stramaglia is Associate Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the University of Macerata. His main research fields are represented by family educational relationships and pop culture. He´s the author of: Amore è musica, 2011; Pop pedagogia, 2012 (Editor) and Jem e Lady Gaga. The Origin of Fame (2014).

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