Pluriclassi, scuole rurali, scuole a ciclo unico dall’Unità d’Italia al 1948

This article traces the history of elementary schooling from the nineteenth century to 1948, focusing on «small schools», a seemingly marginal and peripheral element of public education. Such schools have been defined over the decades as: «elementary schools comprised of three sections», «rural schools», «unclassified schools», «merged schools entrusted to a single teacher», «singular multi-class schools». From a historiographical perspective this type of school will be considered beyond the stereotypes that have characterised the reconstruction of educational history in Italy. One such stereotype, which recent archival and documentary research has started to put into question, is the assumption that compulsory schooling coincided with the birth of Italy as a nation-state. The three historical periods presented, devoted to the multi-classroom school in liberal Italy, during fascism, and in the early years of the republic respectively, offer unexpected reflections on choices presently made regarding primary school by those on the educational shop floor, political decision-makers and communities

Il rapporto tra il sindacalismo rivoluzionario e le origini del fascismo

The Italian revolutionary syndicalism influenced the formation of the fascist ideology. For a long time, it had been a link between fascism and revolutionary circles in italy, useful for both the rise of fascist power during the early stages, and the maintaining of a revolutionary face during its authoritarian phase. But at the same time, the revolutionary syndicalism lost much of its own identity, getting lost in paths which would have contradicted some of his ideal cornerstones

Ricordando Tina Anselmi: la legge sulla parità di trattamento nel Lavoro del 1977 tra il contesto internazionale e la sua soggettività

After quoting some biographical contributions on Tina Anselmi, the article tries, at first, to propose a biography of her marked by essential moments and, secondly, to trace the instances of the subjectivity of Anselmi in the law on equal treatment in the Work of 1977, inserting the theme in the international context characterized by the debate on the female condition after 1975, International Women’s Year. The last part, finally, is dedicated to the memory of a “mother of the Italian Republic”