Reorganization of the public education system in the Kingdom of Naples during the French period

This article examines the school reforms that took place in the Kingdom of Naples during the French period. Between 1806 and 1814, the public school system was radically redesigned. A complex of norms and regulations, largely borrowed from the Napoleonic model, gave public schooling an entirely new look, very different from that of the ancien régime. Despite its importance, this effort at reform has been little studied. This examination looks in particular at institutional aspects. Legislation regarding schools was progressively refined, culminating in the Organic Decree for Public Education of 1811. With this, the south had, for the first time, a public education system that was conceived, and thus regulated, as a complex of parts that were closely linked together. What effects did this have? In the short term, it seems that the results differed not only by economic, social and cultural group, but also according to the sensibilities with which each local administration translated the central government's directives into actual practice. Looked at in a longer‐term perspective, the impact of the reforms is much clearer: the reorganization of the scholastic system, affecting the equilibria between demand for and supply of education, was destined to modify permanently the relations between school and society in the south

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• Secondary schools in Napoleonic Italy (1802–14)

  Alexander Grab•Journal of Modern Italian Studies•2015

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