Università Roma Tre

The course will be articulated in a general part and a workshop part.
The general part will tackle, in the first semester, the main authors of the history of education of modern and contemporary age through the analysis of the principal schools of thought.
In the first semester the workshop part will be dedicated to the analysis of some specific themes of the history of education in the contemporary age, in particular as regards the history of Italian pedagogical Marxism through the analysis of the thought of its major interpreters: Mario Alighiero Manacorda, Dina Bertoni Jovine, Lucio Lombardo Radice and Bruno Ciari. For this purpose, Carmela Covato's book, "The pedagogical itinerary of Italian Marxism" will be examined.

In the second semester the workshop activity will continue focusing especially on the educational thought of Antonio Gramsci will be studied in-depth through the reading of a particularly relevant place concerning the prison notes, the Notebook 12, in which Gramsci outlines his idea of school and education in opposition to the model offered by Giovanni Gentile’s Reform of 1923.
It will also be taken into consideration, again in the second half of the year,the educational thought of one of the major authors of the Twentieth century, John Dewey. A particularly significant work of the American pedagogist will be analysed, The School and Society, in which Dewey, putting school in relation with the social process in its entirety, outlines the idea of the formation of a new democratic citizen endowed with scientific spirit and a historical and critical sense.

The following volumes will be analysed:

S. Santamaita; Storia dell’educazione e delle pedagogie, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2013.
A.Gramsci, Quaderno del carcere n. 12. A cura di Chiara Meta, Edizioni Conoscenza, Roma, 2018.
J. Dewey, Scuola e società. A cura di F. Borruso, Edizioni Conoscenza, Roma, 2018.
C. Covato, L’itinerario pedagogico del marxismo italiano, Edizioni Conoscenza, Roma, 2022