THE PEDAGOGICAL AND SCHOLASTIC PRESS IN ITALY BETWEEN EIGHT AND NINE HUNDRED

ABSTRACT The essay takes place on two levels. The first part illustrates the historiographical changes that have affected Italy in the last decades. As has happened in other parts of Europe, new fields of research have opened up, interested in exploring not only the "ideal school", but also and above all the "daily school". In the second part he reports the results of a research conducted between 1987 and 1997 aimed at bringing to light 1273 school newspapers published in Italy between 1820 (date of publication of the first publication found) and 1943, the year of the fall of fascism. The research shows how it is possible, through the examination of school newspapers, to proceed with the reconstruction of Italian history through different points of view: that of the strategies put in place by the ruling classes and the State (the "high school" culture) and the reflection of the magisterial class (the school culture of everyday life) carried out on several levels, scholastic and pedagogical, practical-didactic, professional, literary (in relation especially to childhood readings), editorial, economic.