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The aim of the contribution is to reconstruct the events connected to the take-off of the democratic school in Italy starting from the end of the Second World War, outlining the contribution and the central role offered by the group of communist intellectuals, including Mario Alighiero Manacorda, Lucio Lombardo Radice, Mario Alicata, Dina Bertoni Jovine, just to name a few of the best known. Starting from 1955, the latter gathered around the PCI area magazine "Reform of the school" promoting a rigorous reflection on the role of public schools in an advanced democracy.
In particular, the article investigates the way in which the Roman pedagogist Bertoni Jovine has placed the Gramscian methodology at the center of her educational reflection centered on the analysis of the hegemony exercised by the liberal ruling classes, starting from the unification of Italy, founded on a selective channeling of training courses, to counter it with an alternative model of democratic school open to all according to the constitutional provisions.
Democratic School; Constitution; Equal Opportunity; Hegemony and Education.
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