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

by Steven F. White

Overview

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 schooling that sheds light on other political and social questions in this period. This is an in-depth study of the Anglo-American reconstruction policy in education which is a substantial contribution to understanding America’s post-war cultural and social influence throughout Western European society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138544192
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/02/2018
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education , #20
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steven F. White

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Documents the Allied-sponsored purge of Fascist influence from Italian schools after the fall of Mussolini. Unlike later similar efforts in Germany and Japan, the new system could not be imposed on a defeated people, but had to be negotiated with an intact government, the Catholic Church, and leftist resistance forces. Revised from the 1985 dissertation, "Progressivism, Italian style". No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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