This essay reconstructs the school culture overseas by analysing the work carried out by teachers at the vocational school in Tripoli and the industrial school in Benghazi. The methodology used is inspired by the heuristic sug-gestions developed by Nóvoa (2009) to understand how synergies, or disconnections, operate between different discourses, languages, histories and times in creating new communities. The article aims to verify the presence of these hybrid spaces within colonial school culture. The objective, therefore, is to explore the oscillating rela-tionship between repulsion and integration, functional to the regime’s projects, that existed between Italian teachers and the colonial context in which they operated.
Questo contributo ricostruisce la cultura scolastica d’Oltremare analizzando l’opera prestata dagli insegnanti nella scuola di avviamento professionale di Tripoli e nella scuola industriale di Bengasi. La metodologia adoperata si ispira alle suggestioni euristiche sviluppate da Nóvoa (2009) per comprendere come agiscono le sinergie, ovvero le disconnessioni, operanti fra discorsi, lingue, storie e tempi diversi, nel creare comunità nuove. L’articolo intende verificare la presenza di questi spazi ibridi all’interno della cultura scolastica coloniale. L’obiettivo, dunque, è quello di approfondire il rapporto oscillante fra il polo della repulsione e quello dell’integrazione, funzionale ai progetti del regime, esistente fra i docenti italiani e il contesto coloniale nel quale operarono.
Colonial school culture: teaching in indigenous schools in Libya
Domenico Francesco Antonio Elia
2025-01-01
Abstract
This essay reconstructs the school culture overseas by analysing the work carried out by teachers at the vocational school in Tripoli and the industrial school in Benghazi. The methodology used is inspired by the heuristic sug-gestions developed by Nóvoa (2009) to understand how synergies, or disconnections, operate between different discourses, languages, histories and times in creating new communities. The article aims to verify the presence of these hybrid spaces within colonial school culture. The objective, therefore, is to explore the oscillating rela-tionship between repulsion and integration, functional to the regime’s projects, that existed between Italian teachers and the colonial context in which they operated.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


