Maestro/a nel corso della storia. La maestra nella scuola italiana fra Otto e Novecento

[Autom. eng. transl.] The essay outlines the evolution of the figure of the primary school teacher between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with specific attention to training courses, recruitment mechanisms, the social consideration of the profession, economic treatment and legal status. After having highlighted the reasons, already known, which led to the feminization of the teaching profession in our country, the research highlights the gap between the image of a teacher, which emerges from contemporary journalism, and a much more multifaceted reality. Alongside many teachers who suffer the events of life, subjected to school and local authorities and, in some cases, subjected to their abuses, more inclined to delegate to others the protection of their interests (of which they do not appear aware) than to fight for to see them recognized, there are many others, active protagonists of the school, cultural and social life of the time, of which, however, historical research has only begun to be interested in relatively recently