Secondary schools in Napoleonic Italy (1802–14)

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ID12548754
AuthorsAlexander Grab (University of Maine, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume20
Issue4
Pages527-546
Publication date2015-08-08
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1354571x.2015.1066150
OpenAlexW1768185858
LanguageEN
References cited7

Napoleon conceptualized public education, especially at the secondary level, as a tool designed to unify and strengthen the state. In France, he set up forty-five secondary schools, lycées, characterized by uniformity, a hierarchical structure, centralization, state control, and a standardized curriculum. He exported the French education system to his satellite states to help in ‘frenchifying’ them. This article discusses the establishment of secondary schools, licei, in the Republic and Kingdom of Italy (1802–14), exploring educational legislation and its implementation and the Direzione generale di pubblica istruzione that ran public education. The government created a liceo in each of the twenty-four departments. This article studies academic disciplines, teachers, books, student numbers, and other aspects that concerned the functioning of the schools. It assesses the consequences of the educational reforms and argues that the Napoleonic authorities laid the foundations of a modern public secondary school system in Italy

Curriculum · Government (linguistics · Legislation · Pedagogy · Political science · Public education · School system · Secondary education · Sociology · State (computer science · European Political History Analysis · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Public Administration

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