The contribution is the abstract of a presentation on the physical education of Italian children (aged 6-10) during the fascist period and its role in the regime’s educational project. Through the analysis of school programs, manuals for teachers and educational journals, the research documents how school Gymnastics became more and more a key instrument for disciplining not only children’s bodies, but also their ideas and values, and thus for inoculating childhood with the fascist ideology
Alfieri, P., Physical Education for Italian Children during the Fascist Totalitarian Regime, Abstract de <<International Conference “Education in Totalitarian Ideologies of the 20th Century”, promoted by the University of Trnava (Slovakia), the Central European Philosophy of Education Society (CEUPES) e the journal Historia Scholastica>>, (Smolenice Castle, 17-18 October 2019 ), Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, Trnava 2019: 62-63 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/145446]
Physical Education for Italian Children during the Fascist Totalitarian Regime
Alfieri, Paolo
2019
Abstract
The contribution is the abstract of a presentation on the physical education of Italian children (aged 6-10) during the fascist period and its role in the regime’s educational project. Through the analysis of school programs, manuals for teachers and educational journals, the research documents how school Gymnastics became more and more a key instrument for disciplining not only children’s bodies, but also their ideas and values, and thus for inoculating childhood with the fascist ideologyI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.