A school for each and every one of us
Vanessa Roghi
After World War II, Bruno Ciari, a Tuscan teacher, together with a group of colleagues, developed a system of teaching techniques that would give concrete expression to the great transformation put into motion by the democratic Constitution. To him, more than to others, however, falls the task of responding to the criticism of those who see an excess of optimism and naivety in relying «solely» on a didactic reform in schools in order to establish democracy. Through an original reworking of Dewey and Gramsci and a fruitful encounter with Célestin Freinet, Bruno Ciari and his companions from the school printing house cooperative, later MCE, instead work under the conviction that democracy is achieved by including everyone in the learning process. His idea of democracy, in fact, is not purely formal but decidedly practical: teaching techniques include everyone, activating learning and research processes that constantly confront a larger political dimension that includes the parallel development of the family and the city.
Keywords
Bruno Ciari, John Dewey, Antonio Gramsci, Inclusion, Democracy, Teaching technique, Pedagogy.
