1st Edition

Progressive Renaissance America and the Reconstruction of Italian Education, 1943-1962

By Steven F. White Copyright 1991
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1991. This book concerns the reception and spread of American-style progressivism in post-Fascist Italy. It places educational reconstruction in fuller historical perspective referring to newly-available archival sources. Documenting the Allied input to reconstruction efforts and the response of the Italian bureaucrats and the Church, the book shows the struggle over... Read more

1. Introduction  2. An Authoritarian Educational Heritage  3. The South Under Allied Military Rule: July, 1943 to February, 1944  4. Return of the Repressed: Politics and Education, February to December, 1944  5. The Maturation of Didactic Reform 

Biography

Steven F. White