Belgium as a cultural model for building the Italian secondary school and training its teachers (1860-1900)

The author proposes to explore the interest shown by Italian legislators towards a lesser-known cultural model: the Belgian school system. After tracing the origins of the curiosity of European and Italian legislators for foreign models, she will study in depth the interest shown by the Italian political class towards some aspects of the Belgian scholastic model. The author will then show the methods they used to study this model and the limitations they faced in transferring some of its characteristics. As the contribution tries to demonstrate, even if a series of features of the Belgian mode... Mehr ...