Précepteurs: instruction et éducation domestique dans l'Italie du XVIIIème siècle
- Autores: Patrizia Delpiano
- Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 43, Nº. 4, 2007 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Servants, Domestic Workers and Children. The Role of Domestic Personnel in the Upbringing and Education of the Master�s and Employer�s Children from the Sixteenth to Twenty-first Centuries .), págs. 525-545
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
This paper 1 1 Traduction révisée par Sylvie Pipari. View all notes examines the conditions and the role of the tutor in Italy in the eighteenth century: a �shadowy� figure, whose features are somewhat indistinct, often due to the transitory nature of the profession. Through the use of and cross-referencing with a variety of sources�handbooks of conduct written for parents, young people as well as tutors themselves and letters, diaries and autobiographies�the study is framed around four different areas: the social, cultural and geographical background of the tutor in an attempt to ascertain any role as mediator in the broader sense; the context in which the tutor acts, with an aim of assessing not only his position within noble and non-noble families but also his work with boys and girls; his double and contradictory role of teacher and educator, paying particular attention to the curricula (syllabus, books and methods) and, at the same time, to the civilisational norms used in the teaching of the rules of etiquette; and the relation between the domestic domain of education and instruction and external spheres (boarding schools, universities and so on) in an effort to determine any gaps (innovative or conservative) between the �private� area, free from didactic control, and that of the State, subject to the surveillance of the censor. What emerges is the hazy outline of a figure that offers scope for further study under the themes of both the history of the family and that of the spread of knowledge in the Old Regime.
