Tracce di scuola vissuta: i diari di esperienza magistrale dell’Archivio Didattico Lombardo-Radice

Traces of lived school: the diaries of master’s experience from the Lombardo-Radice Educational Archive

Abstract

Among the individual and autobiographical memories, the school diaries written by the teachers themselves have particular significance for school history. Such diaries are sometimes compiled to comply with an institutional obligation, while in other cases, they are true private autobiographical writings centered on self-narrative reflective of one’s teaching experience. These writings are precious, as they are capable of penetrating the ‘substratum’ of school life intercepted in the flow of daily life and from the voice of its direct protagonists. In this contribution we analyze some of the teachers’ diaries contained in the Archivio Didattico Lombardo Radice (MuSEd – Roma Tre University), with the aim of reconstructing the reception and applicability of the Gentile reform in rural schools in relation to the programs for the elementary school written by Lombardo-Radice.