This contribution reconstructs the figures of the elementary school teacher and the ele- mentary school headmaster that emerge from an analysis of the main works of Giuseppe Lombardo Radice. These two models greatly influenced the professional culture of Italian teachers and school principals until almost the end of the 1960s. The teacher is portrayed as a ‘missionary’ who dedicates his life to the cultural and moral elevation of his pupils, while the headmaster appears as a ‘father’ or rather a ‘master’ of the teachers working in the school institution he directs. Lombardo Radice saw ‘collaboration’ as a way of anima- ting relations between the various participants in school life: headmaster, teachers, pupils, and families.
The figure of the elementary teacher and headmaster in the thought of Giuseppe Lombardo Radice
G. Zago
2023
Abstract
This contribution reconstructs the figures of the elementary school teacher and the ele- mentary school headmaster that emerge from an analysis of the main works of Giuseppe Lombardo Radice. These two models greatly influenced the professional culture of Italian teachers and school principals until almost the end of the 1960s. The teacher is portrayed as a ‘missionary’ who dedicates his life to the cultural and moral elevation of his pupils, while the headmaster appears as a ‘father’ or rather a ‘master’ of the teachers working in the school institution he directs. Lombardo Radice saw ‘collaboration’ as a way of anima- ting relations between the various participants in school life: headmaster, teachers, pupils, and families.
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