Created by the City of Milan in the aftermath of Unity to provide education and preparation for employment in industry, commerce or offices to young people of both sexes, who could not continue education after primary school and were already working, the evening and festive secondary schools met with a great consensus among the city’s population at the beginning of the twentieth century. In both of institutions the business courses were more popular than those for workers, as they provided the necessary background for clerical jobs, office workers and clerks, which were most requested in Milan. In 1915 a profound reform of these schools was undertaken, which showed a strong attention to the preparation of factory workers and housewives, taking as a model the initiatives of vocational training of the Umanitaria. The article, based on a large number of archival and printed sources, sheds new light on the relationship between schooling and progressive consolidation of the white-collar middle-class and, inside, of its female component from war to post-war period in Italy.

Create dal Comune di Milano all’indomani dell’Unità per fornire un’istruzione e una preparazione al lavoro nelle industrie, nel commercio o negli uffici a giovani di entrambi i sessi che non potevano continuare gli studi dopo le elementari e che già lavoravano, le Scuole serali e festive superiori risossero un deciso consenso fra la popolazione cittadina agli inizi del Novecento. Più apprezzati erano gli indirizzi commerciali di entrambe le istituzioni, rispetto a quelli per operai, in quanto fornivano le nozioni necessarie alle professioni di impiegato o di commesso maggiormente richieste a Milano. Nel 1915 si intraprese una profonda azione di riforma di queste scuola, da cui emerge una forte attenzione alla preparazione dei lavoratori delle fabbriche e delle donne di casa, assumendo come modello le iniziative di formazione professionale dell’Umanitaria. L’articolo, sulla scorta di una ricca documentazione archivistica e a stampa, getta nuova luce sul rapporto fra scolarizzazione e progressivo consolidarsi del ceto medio impiegatizio e, al suo interno, della componente femminile fra guerra e dopoguerra nel Italia.

Ghizzoni, C. F., Le Scuole serali e festive superioridel Comune di Milano frasocialismo e avvento del fascismo, <<HISTORY OF EDUCATION & CHILDREN'S LITERATURE>>, 2011; VI (2): 281-320 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/4970]

Le Scuole serali e festive superiori del Comune di Milano fra socialismo e avvento del fascismo

Ghizzoni, Carla Francesca
2011

Abstract

Created by the City of Milan in the aftermath of Unity to provide education and preparation for employment in industry, commerce or offices to young people of both sexes, who could not continue education after primary school and were already working, the evening and festive secondary schools met with a great consensus among the city’s population at the beginning of the twentieth century. In both of institutions the business courses were more popular than those for workers, as they provided the necessary background for clerical jobs, office workers and clerks, which were most requested in Milan. In 1915 a profound reform of these schools was undertaken, which showed a strong attention to the preparation of factory workers and housewives, taking as a model the initiatives of vocational training of the Umanitaria. The article, based on a large number of archival and printed sources, sheds new light on the relationship between schooling and progressive consolidation of the white-collar middle-class and, inside, of its female component from war to post-war period in Italy.
2011
Italiano
Ghizzoni, C. F., Le Scuole serali e festive superioridel Comune di Milano frasocialismo e avvento del fascismo, <<HISTORY OF EDUCATION & CHILDREN'S LITERATURE>>, 2011; VI (2): 281-320 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/4970]
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