Social educators in boarding schools as described in the journal 'L’Educazione Nazionale' (1919-1933)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7346/PO-022022-20Keywords:
L'Educazione Nazionale, social educator, boarding school, History of educationAbstract
Starting with the journal L’Educazione Nazionale (1919-33), founded and directed by Lombardo Radice, we examine the role of social educator in boarding schools and other marginal educational settings in Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. Little seems to have been done so far to reconstruct their professional story in such institutions.
The journal published numerous contributions supporting the benefits of education in boarding schools, promoting them as an educational question.
Often in the form of interviews with educators, censors and governesses, accounts of life in boarding school reveal the gap between academia’s idea of education theory and the reality of these institutions, between a theory of welcoming and acknowledging, and a daily practice of obedience, punishment and control, and of people serving as educators for want of a better job.
