Una scuola per leggere la vita: il mondo del lavoro nella collana Biblioteca di lavoro e nei giornali di classe di Mario Lodi

A school for reading life: the world of work in the dossier series Biblioteca di Lavoro and in Mario Lodi class journals

Abstract

The contribution aims to relate the representation of work emerging in the dossier series Biblioteca di Lavoro, directed by Mario Lodi, and in Lodi’s class journals to the social, pedagogical and political ideas of Lodi and other teachers’ afferent to Movimento di Cooperazione Educativa in Italy in the Seventies. In the dossiers and the journals considered, the teachers start from the child’s experience of work, mostly lived within the family, to stimulate a debate on the social problems and dynamics. The various representations of work, in Lodi’s idea, contributes to develop a critical attitude in the students and an awareness of their role in a democratic society.