Innovation in the schools of Turin in the sixties and seventies (video interviews)
Turin in the Sixties and Seventies was one of the capitals of school innovation.
To cope with the emergencies of a city that, due to the FIAT effect, had suddenly seen its inhabitants multiply with the consequent strong social changes, the schools of Turin tried to address the new needs.
Consequently, experimental teaching practices renewed in their methods, new learning spaces, a different organisation of the time of the lessons and a new consideration of the student emerged. In the video, some of the protagonists of this significant change, inspired by Freinet and carried out by the Educational Cooperation Movement, expose the salient points of what, according to their experience, was INNOVATION at school at that precise historical moment.
Workgroup
Research and coordination: Francesca Davida Pizzigoni
Development of activities: students of the Laboratory of History of Education and Children’s Literature of the University of Turin a.y. 2015/16 and 2016/17
Respondents who appear in the video:
- Fiorenzo Alfieri
- Domenico Chiesa
- Marcella Ciari
- Mariangela Colombo
- Francesco De Bartolomeis
- Gianni Giardiello
- Oscar Perino
- Daria Ridolfi
The themes are:
- Full-time school
- Techniques and activities
- The conversation
- The inter-school correspondence
- The class library
- The classroom
- Educational cooperation
Video credits:
Interviews conducted by Francesca Davida Pizzigoni and the students of the Laboratory of the History of Education and Children’s Literature of the University of Turin a.y. 2015/16 and 2016/17 .
Video editing:
Cinedumedia (Interdepartmental Research Centre – University of Turin)
Crediti video
Interviste realizzate da Francesca Davida Pizzigoni e dagli studenti del Laboratorio di Storia dell’Educazione e della Letteratura per l’Infanzia dell’Università di Torino a.a. 2015/16 e 2016/17
Montaggio video: Cinedumedia (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca – Università degli Studi di Torino)