NOTES ON THE ITALIAN DEBATE ABOUT THE TRAINING OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE FIRST TWO DECADES OF THE 20TH CENTURY

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the debate on the training of primary school teachers became very lively in some European countries: it started from a unanimous criticism of the initial training pathway, which was considered inadequate for many reasons. The animated discussion on this subject in Italy was set in a particular framework. Moreover, some interesting educational and didactic experiments saw the light in those years, partly also connected with stimuli from abroad. This contribution proposes an in-depth examination of some of the voices and themes of this debate through an analysis of the pages of one of the most popular Italian pedagogical journals at the time, La Coltura Popolare.