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Lorenzo Milani in our times
No full textThis article pays tribute to one of Europe's foremost critical pedagogues, the Tuscan Don Lorenzo Milani, on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth. It highlights the key moments in his life as priest and educator as well as his pedagogical approach directed at challenging the class-conditioned status quo in Italian society and at achieving greater social justice. His was a pedagogy which highlighted the collective dimensions of learning and teaching, pupils being students and educators at the same time, an approach to learning akin to what Paulo Freire would call critical literacy and what contemporary writers would call critical media literacy in the sense of reading and writing the word and the world. His pedagogy entailed a process of reading history against the grain as part of an attempt to generate a culture of non-militarization. All these elements make Don Milani and his student-teachers pedagogues for our times.peer-reviewe
Critical pedagogy and citizenship : Lorenzo Milani and the school of Barbiana
No full textThis article can also be found in:
Learning and Social Difference, Challenges for Public Education and Critical pedagogy. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm, 2006. Chapter 8,This paper discusses the pedagogical challenge of providing an education that stresses the connection between learning and power and the potential, for social solidarity, of a collective approach to learning based on a process of what Freire and other critical pedagogues would call ‘critical literacy.’
The stimulus for such a pedagogical approach to citizenship derives from the legacy of a radical and very controversial Tuscan priest, Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967), and the students from an isolated and impoverished farming community in the Mugello region of Tuscany who constituted the School of Barbiana. The pedagogical ideas emanating from Lorenzo Milani and his school of Barbiana remain a source of reference in debates about schooling and social activism in Italy and elsewhere. The key text to emerge from this school, Lettera a Una Professoressa (Letter to a Teacher), was an important source of reference during the turbulent ‘sessantotto’ (1968) period in Italy. The paper provides an analysis of this and other works with whihc Lorenzo Milani was connected.peer-reviewe
Italian signposts for a sociologically and critically engaged pedagogy : Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967) and the schools of San Donato and Barbiana revisited
No full textThis paper provides a critical exposition and analysis of the work of an acclaimed Italian educator, Lorenzo Milani, and ideas that emerged from his experiences in two Tuscan localities. His work is well known in Italy and many parts of southern Europe. Despite the translations of his works into English and Spanish, in the early 1970s, and their use in sociology of education classes in the United Kingdom, he seems to have had a very limited impact on the Anglo-North American-dominated critical education field. The paper revisits his ideas, in this 90th anniversary year, indicating their contemporary relevance and the signposts they provide for a critically and sociologically engaged pedagogy.peer-reviewe
Letters exchanged in July 1969 between Lorenzo A. Richards and Mathias C. Richards
No full textLetters exchanged in 1969 between Lorenzo A. Richards at Riverside, California, and Margaret and Mathias C. Richards at Durham, New Hampshire: (1) Letter dated 2 February (1969?) from Matt and Margaret Richards to Lorenzo and Zilla Richards; (2) Letter dated 21 July 1969 from Matt and Margaret Richards to Lorenzo and Zilla Richards; (3) Letter dated 23 July 1969 from Lorenzo A. Richards to Matt and Margaret Richard
Letters exchanged in January of 1969 between Lorenzo A. Richards and C. A. Black
No full textLetters exchanged in January of 1969 between Lorenzo A. Richards and C. A. (Charles Allen) Black, soil scientist and editor of a monograph on Methods of Soil Analysis: (1) Letter dated 16 January 1969 from Lorenzo A. Richards to Charles Black in response to his letter of 3 January; (2) Letter dated 3 January 1969 from editor C. A. Black to Lorenzo A. Richards as the author of an article in a soils science book, soliciting corrections prior to a second printingI O W A S T A T E UNIVERSITY of Science chnology AMES, IOWA 50010 Department of Agronomy January 10, 1968 To: Authors, Monograph on Methods of Soil Analysis From: C. A. Black £7!77$. Subject: Correction of errors before second printing Copies of the first printing are about gone. Before preparing the second printing, we wish to eliminate all discovered errors. We need your help in this matter because the author is more likely than anyone else to know of errors. To make it easy for you to get the information to us, an unbound copy of your contribution to the monograph is enclosed. Please indicate the errors in the margin, as for proof corrections. Make note of both typographical errors and errors of text content. If you find it necessary to replace certain passages with new material, make the length of the new material as nearly identical with the old as you can. The type is not being reset for the monograph as a whole. Please mail the copy of your contribution with corrections by March 31 to the writer. This timing will give me opportunity to review all modifications and carry out any needed correspondence with the authors before the revised copy is forwarded to Mr. Dinauer. Thank you for your cooperation. I suspect many of you have shared my observation that copies of Monograph No. 9 characteristically have a well-worn character that testifies to constant use. It is gratifying to know that our colleagues so appreciate our efforts on this project that they not only buy the books but use them as part of their daily work
Letter dated 21 Nov 1980 from Lorenzo A. Richards to J. C. Penney Company
No full textLetter dated 21 Nov 1980 from Lorenzo A. Richards to J. C. Penney Compan
Pinacoteca comunale di arte contemporanea Novoli
No full textCatalogo della pinacoteca civica di Novoli a cura di Massimo Guastella e dell'artista Corrado Lorenzo inaugurata il 17 novembre del 2001. Presenti opere dei secoli XX-XXI di artisti nazionali e internazionali
Gestione del suolo - Cap. 15
No full textIl capitolo (15) tratta i molteplici aspetti della gestione del suolo nei sistemi arborei prendendo in esame le complesse problematiche del sistema suolo-pianta-acqua-atmosfera.
Il capitolo è articolato in 10 paragrafi: 15.1. Il sistema suolo (C. Ciavatta); 15.2. Proprietà fisiche e chimiche del suolo: tessitura, reazione, capacità di scambio cationico, carbonati totali e attivi, salinità, potenziale redox (C. Ciavatta); 15.3. Correzione delle anomalie chimico-fisiche (C. Ciavatta);; 15.4. La sostanza organica: fuzioni agronomiche e ambientali (C. Ciavatta); 15.5. Biomassa microbica ed enzimi del suolo: motore della fertilità (C. Ciavatta); 15.6. Elementi totali ed assimilabili (C. Ciavatta); 15.7. Inquinanti inorganici ed organici (C. Ciavatta); 15.8. Interazione pianta-suolo-atmosfera (C. Xiloyannis); 15.9. Principi ecologici della gestione del suolo: le tecniche per favorire l'accumulo di carbonio nei suoli agricoli (R. Di Lorenzo, C. Intrieri, C. Xiloyannis); 15.10. Campionamento del suolo (C. Ciavatta)
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