Pedagogic culture and school manuals. The experience of the Normal School for male teachers in Campobasso (1872-1898)

Abstract

This contribution places itself within a renewed study cycle with the purpose to illustrate a new line of research aimed at investigating on the inner aspects of school life: the teaching function, the practices used for transferring a set of knowledge on school subjects, as well as educational and behavioral models. In particular, the focus lies on the analysis of pedagogy textbooks used in the Normal School for male of Campobasso. The choice of those books was influenced by factors such as the ongoing pedagogical/cultural changes, the conditions of the schoolbook market, the development of distribution channels and the evolution of the schoolbook-related policies in the 2nd half of XIX century. This kind of analysis allows a better understanding of the degree of establishment and diffusion of the renewal that School underwent from the end of the XIX century. How to reference this article Miceli, V. (2015). Cultura pedagogica e manualistica scolastica. L’esperienza della Scuola Normale maschile di Campobasso (1872-1898). Espacio, Tiempo y Educación, 2(1), pp. 231-252. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14516/ete.2015.002.001.012

Keywords

• storia dell’educazione
• storiografia
• Scuole Normali
• libri di testo