Albino Bernardini and the Representation of Italian School

Andrea Marrone

2024-01-01

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Abstract

Among the authors who collaborated to build and modify the collective representation of the Italian school in the sixties and seventies, Albino Bernardini was undoubtedly one of the most important and fortunate. The Sardinian teacher published successful school memoirs, which influenced the diffusion of a new representation of the education system, its protagonists, its problems, but also the solutions to overcome its injustices. Beyond the mere reconstruction of the author's pedagogical ideas and the inspirations that determined their elaboration, this contribution aims to deepen the main features of the scholastic representation proposed by Bernardini, with particular attention to the works Un anno a Pietralata [A Year in Pietralata] (1968), Le bacchette di Lula [The Canes of Lula] (1969), La scuola nemica [The Enemy School] (1973), La supplente [The Substitute Teacher] (1975). The spreading of Bernardini's work will then be explored, highlighting the multiple directions of its diffusion.