Teachers, educators, mothers. Training for pre-school staff and the revival of Agazzi method in the sec-ond half of the 1920s

Abstract

The essay intends to reconstruct the development of training for pre-school educators in the years immediately following the promulgation of the Gentile reform. In compliance with the figure of the mother educator as outlined in the articles of the law drafted by Lombardo Radice, the pedagogical group of Brescia orbiting around Editrice La Scuola, in collaboration with Alessandro Alessandrini's Associazione educatrice italiana, decided to set up teacher training school centred on the revival of Rosa and Carolina Agazzi's experience. Lombardo Radice's direct participation in this project, with the Sicilian pedagogist being a great admirer of the Agazzi method, was one of the factors that brought together the pedagogical reflection carried out by the pedagogical group of Brescia and Lombardo Radice's thought, laying the foundations for the birth of the Italian infant school.