Agricultural education and Italian primary school teachers
The Romagna in the late nineteenth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12535238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Omar Mazzotti (0000-0003-0920-706X, University of Bologna, corresponding author), Massimo Fornasari (University of Bologna) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-66 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Italy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-2944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9877 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/mit.2020.68 |
| OpenAlex | W3115083323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article examines the dissemination of agricultural education in primary schools in the Romagna, an important rural area in post-unification Italy. The topic is explored within a wider perspective, analysing the impact of institutional changes – at both the national and local levels – on the transmission of agricultural knowledge in primary education during the final quarter of the nineteenth century. Two particular elements of the process are examined: students, as the intended beneficiaries of the educational process; and teachers, who as well as having a key role in reducing the extent of illiteracy were sometimes also involved in disseminating agricultural knowledge. The transfer of that knowledge appears to have been a very challenging task, not least because of the scant interest that Italy's ruling class showed towards this issue. However, increasing importance seems to have been given to agricultural education in primary schools during the economic crisis of the 1880s, when the expansion of this provision was thought to be among the factors that might help to prepare the ground for the hoped-for ‘agricultural revolution’
Agricultural education · Agriculture · Economic growth · Economics · Functional illiteracy · Geography · Pedagogy · Political science · Primary education · Quarter (Canadian coin · Social science · Sociology · Unification · Historical Education and Society · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Law
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |