INSPECTION VISITS TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ITALY: THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS (1859-1889)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15837/aijjs.v16i2.5139Abstract
This contribution focuses on an important chapter in the history of education that has not yet been investigated, that is the methods of inspections in government gymnasiums and lyceums in the first thirty years after the Unification of Italy. Starting from the legal framework and on the basis of archival documentation, the historical passages of a system centered on university professors are reconstructed. Between 1863 and 1889, they were called upon by the ministry as government inspectors to visit gymnasiums and lyceums to assess first and foremost the teaching activity of the teaching staff.