At first sight the pupils’ school copybooks, dated around the mid 1930s, reveal peculiar aspects of the Giuseppina Pizzigoni “method”. The report contains queries aimed at pointing out interpretative solutions through text analysis and a comparison between “lessons” and the pupils’ “products”. Particular attention is, in any case, reserved, bearing in mind that both a diary and correspondence lend themselves to various levels of readings. Two lines of analysis in particular: 1)the organization of stress of didactic content, as achieved through the “method”; 2) the method affords the pupil the freedom to express individual originality. Pizzigoni is against every type of scholastic rhetoric. Do the copybooks reveal such a framework? Our data-supported hypothesis, Fascism apart, lends considerable weight to “evidence” pointing to correspondence between the pupils and soldiers.
"Looking for the Lost School": Excercise Books and Compositions of Pupils of the Rinnovata-Pizzigoni in Milan during the 1930s
ROSSI, OLGA
2010-01-01
Abstract
At first sight the pupils’ school copybooks, dated around the mid 1930s, reveal peculiar aspects of the Giuseppina Pizzigoni “method”. The report contains queries aimed at pointing out interpretative solutions through text analysis and a comparison between “lessons” and the pupils’ “products”. Particular attention is, in any case, reserved, bearing in mind that both a diary and correspondence lend themselves to various levels of readings. Two lines of analysis in particular: 1)the organization of stress of didactic content, as achieved through the “method”; 2) the method affords the pupil the freedom to express individual originality. Pizzigoni is against every type of scholastic rhetoric. Do the copybooks reveal such a framework? Our data-supported hypothesis, Fascism apart, lends considerable weight to “evidence” pointing to correspondence between the pupils and soldiers.
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