Literary education in the schools of the novels (1940-2010)

Abstract

A comparison of a corpus of forty school-themed stories, situated between the postwar years and the present, provides clues about the teaching of language and literature received at the secondary stage by writers even by generations of students in the historical period considered. They reflect practices of reading and writing, theatre and reading canon, in a context in which the teaching is heavily indebted to the historicist rote method. However, as from the sixties, there was a progressive modernization of teaching methods.