The interpretive category of “school memories” has recently come to prominence within international historiography and is also gaining ground within Italian historical-educational research. Education journals are a source that can contribute significantly to the re-evoking of a shared school past. The present study follows in this line of inquiry by examining the contents of the journal Pro Infantia from its foundation in 1913 up to the period following World War I. Focusing on articles written by the journal’s editors and contributors as well as on personal accounts submitted by subscribers, it points up elements of both continuity and discontinuity between infant school as it was concretely experienced and infant school as it was represented in the individual, collective, and public imaginary. It also brings to light discrepancies – at times substantial ones – between contemporary educational theory and both ministerial directives and everyday teaching, human, and material practices in infant schools.
La “memoria scolastica” rappresenta una categoria interpretativa recentemente introdotta dalla storiografia internazionale e che si sta facendo strada nella ricerca storico-educativa italiana. I periodici didattici costituiscono una delle fonti utili a fare riaffiorare la rievocazione di un comune passato scolastico. Il presente studio si inscrive in questo ramo di ricerca prendendo in esame la rivista Pro Infantia negli anni tra la sua fondazione (1913) e il primo dopoguerra. L’attenzione si è focalizzata, in particolare, sugli articoli redatti dalle direttrici e dalle collaboratrici e sulle testimonianze delle abbonate. Ciò ha permesso di sondare gli scarti e le continuità tra la scuola vissuta e quella elaborata dall’immaginario individuale, collettivo e pubblico e di portare alla luce lo scollamento, a volte profondo, tra le elaborazioni della pedagogia e le direttive ministeriali, da un lato, e la quotidianità didattica, umana e materiale degli asili, da un altro.
Bressanelli, R. G., Un porto fuor d’ogni tempesta, un rifugio fuor d’ogni pericolo, una fonte per tutte le seti dell’infanzia, non favorita da fortuna”: l’immagine degli asili attraverso la rivista Pro Infantia, <<PEDAGOGIA OGGI>>, 2020; (2): 225-232 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/168662]
Un porto fuor d’ogni tempesta, un rifugio fuor d’ogni pericolo, una fonte per tutte le seti dell’infanzia, non favorita da fortuna”: l’immagine degli asili attraverso la rivista Pro Infantia
Bressanelli, Renata Giovanna
2020
Abstract
The interpretive category of “school memories” has recently come to prominence within international historiography and is also gaining ground within Italian historical-educational research. Education journals are a source that can contribute significantly to the re-evoking of a shared school past. The present study follows in this line of inquiry by examining the contents of the journal Pro Infantia from its foundation in 1913 up to the period following World War I. Focusing on articles written by the journal’s editors and contributors as well as on personal accounts submitted by subscribers, it points up elements of both continuity and discontinuity between infant school as it was concretely experienced and infant school as it was represented in the individual, collective, and public imaginary. It also brings to light discrepancies – at times substantial ones – between contemporary educational theory and both ministerial directives and everyday teaching, human, and material practices in infant schools.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.