About a history of periodical press for teachers and schools in a united Italy (1861-1945)

On the basis of a research conducted over the last thirty years, A. reconstructs the origins and the developments of periodical press for teachers and schools published in Italy between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries and, in particular, between the national unification (1861) and the fall of Fascism and the end of World War II (1945). Among more than a thousand twelve hundred periodicals published in this period, A. examines their objectives and realizations, in addition to their typographical and editorial features, offering an extraordinarily rich and suggestive cross section of the role which this periodical press had in the implementation, the growth and the modernization of the Italian school system, as well as the specific function it performs on the pedagogical and didactic school innovation, the professional continuing education for teachers and the legal and economic improvement of the entire teaching category.