Giuseppe Lombardo Radice was one of the main figures in Italian pedagogy in the first half of the 20th century. He was part of the International New School Movement. His work ‘for’ and ‘with’ many elementary school teachers also left important and long-lasting traces beyond Italy’s borders in teacher training processes.
Author(s): Evelina Scaglia
Series: Erziehung in Wissenschaft und Praxis, 16
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 172
City: Berlin
Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction. The reasons for a rediscovery
The first steps of the young Giuseppe Lombardo Radice
Between public involvement and the discovery of new borders of educational research
The aim and structure of the book
Printed sources
Section 1 The Italian Context
The education of children in the Lombardo Radice household
The pedagogical laboratory at Caronda street
An anti-fascist education
Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and the National Association for the Interests of the Italian Mezzogiorno (1910–1938)
The political persecution of Giuseppe Lombardo Radice by the fascist regime (1924–1931)
The resignation from the Direzione generale dell’Istruzione elementare e popolare and the gradual departure from Gentile
Lombardo Radice became a person under ‘special political surveillance’
Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and physical education in elementary schools
The originality of Lombardo Radice’s contribution to physical education in Italian elementary schools
The Lezioni di didattica of 1913
The question of national education and the Ente Nazionale per l’Educazione Fisica
The physical education programmes of 1923
Concluding remarks
Printed sources
Giuseppe Lombardo Radice anti-Montessorian
The comments from 1921
‘Montessori yes, but without Montessorism’
Anti-montessorism and politics
The figure of the elementary teacher and headmaster in the thought of Giuseppe Lombardo Radice
The representation of the elementary teacher between ‘mission’ and ‘collaboration’
The representation of the headmaster between ‘discipline’ and ‘collaboration’
Conclusion
Section 2 The European Context
Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and his reception in Spain in the first third of the 20th century1
Printed sources
Giuseppe Lombardo Radice – Adolphe Ferrière. The contentious Swiss-Italian relationship and their disputes regarding New Education
Introduction
The Swiss-Italian relationship and their discussions on New Education
A ‘corporation of silent teachers’ for Active Schools
Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and the teachers’ network in Tessin: Tracing an ‘educational-cultural transfer’ through the pages of L’educatore della Svizzera italiana
The first steps in Tessin
Positively evaluating the scuole serene: Between critica didattica and new pedagogical paradigms
The dissemination of the Pasquali-Agazzi method
Latest achievements
Printed sources
Central European influences on Giuseppe Lombardo Radice’s concept of ‘national education’: His relations with Italian teachers in Austria-Hungary
The discovery of Venezia Giulia’s schools
The educational ideal and the national school
Adriatic socialism
To conclude
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