Lorenzo Milani, The School of Barbiana and the Struggle for Social Justice

Cover
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Lorenzo Milani’s Relevance to Our Times
	Critical Pedagogy
	Other Italian Pedagogues
	International Following
	The Lettera and Other Texts
	Learning History in an Age of Militarization
	Anticipating/Complementing Critical Sociology of Education
	Antidote to Measuring Schools
	Rekindling Interest in Milani in a Period of Indignation
Chapter 2. Don Milani and His Time
	His Education and Conversion: The Years of Fascism
	The Italian Political Situation: After Fascism and the Birth of Christian Democracy
	Ordainment as Priest and the San Donato Years
	The San Donato Experience and Italian State Schools of the Time
	The Transfer
	The Barbiana School: The Beginnings
	Changes to the Italian School System in the Mid-1950s
	Pastoral Experiences: A Book Withdrawn from Publication
	The Late Period
Chapter 3. Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana’s Pedagogical Approach
	Milani and Other Critical Pedagogues: Any Influence?
	’68 and All That!
	Underlying Common Influence: Radical Christianity
	Gender and Other Forms of Difference
	Blood, Sweat, and Tears
	Education, Politics, “Class Suicide,” and Social Justice
	The Worlds of “Having” and “Being”
	Lessons from Lorenzo Milani and the San Donato/Barbiana Experiences
Chapter 4. Writing as Collective Literacy
	Writing as an Art Form
	The Letters to Mario Lodi’s Pupils
	Letter by the Barbiana Pupils to the Piadena Pupils
	The Second Letter by the Barbiana Pupils
	Steps to a Collective Approach to Writing
		Step 1: Choosing the Theme and the Reader
		Step 2: Collecting Ideas
		Step 3: Clustering Ideas According to Chapters and Paragraphs
		Step 4: Organizing Ideas within Chapters and Paragraphs
		Step 5: Writing the Full Text
		Step 6: General Revision of the Full Text
		Step 7: Simplifying and Improving the Full Text
		Step 8: Revision of the Full Text by External Actors
	Collective Writing as Critical Literacy Practice
Notes
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
References
Name Index
Subject Index