Elementary Schools and Teachers in the Province of Sassari during the Years of the Destra Storica
Abstract
This essay investigates the spread of elementary education in the province of Sassari during the years of the Destra Storica, as a case study focusing on the implementation of the Casati law in a socio-economic contexct of backwardness. The difficulties due to the lack of finances, the scarcity of qualified teachers and the potency of scepticism towards female education are analysed from existing archival sources, as well as the impact on local literary rates of those provincial and governmental subsidies which were managed by the superintendents Giovanni Pasquale (1860-1868) and Salvator Angelo De Castro (1868-1878). The importance of evening and Sunday education for adults as an instrument of social development is likewise highlighted, and some final conclusions on the cultural and structural limits that affected the educational policies of the time are drawn.
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