La formazione magistrale in Italia negli anni del secondo dopoguerra e i manuali scolastici di pedagogia (1945-1968)

Teacher’s training in Italy after World War II and the pedagogical textbooks (1945- 1968)

Abstract

In the history of Italian Istituto magistrale, the secondary school designed for the primary school’s teachers, the discipline of Pedagogy has represented a central element for the education of future teachers. To explore its features, the manuals offer an effective point of observation to evaluate the school model, the implicit and explicit pedagogical theories, the cultural and political debate. While several studies on these sources have already been published in other countries, there is a lack of research on the Italian case. The aim of this article is to start to fill to the brim this historiographical emptiness of a systematic study of Pedagogy manuals, analyzing the structure and differences between some of the main manuals used after Second Word War.