While the dominant philosophy in Italy at the end of World War II was not favourable to pedagogical experimentation, some initiatives aiming to innovate – in the activist sense – contents and methods of school teaching represented the remote causes of the start of educational studies with the positive method. These initiatives facilitated the action of empirical research pioneers in the field of education, which developed in Italy in the 1950s for three main reasons: 1) the influence of experiments conducted in US schools, 2) the spreading of Dewey’s thought, 3) the impetus given by the Institute of Pedagogy of the Salesians to the study of educational sciences. Calonghi and Visalberghi were the first to promote and organize two lines of empirical research on educational facts which contributed to the full scientific recognition of Experimental Pedagogy and Docimology in the mid-1970s. In order to avoid technicalities, the researchers who use the experimental method feel the need to frame their specialized studies within a vast pedagogical horizon.

Mentre la filosofia dominante in Italia alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale non era favorevole alla sperimentazione pedagogica, alcune iniziative, tese a innovare in senso attivistico i contenuti e i metodi dell’insegnamento scolastico, costituirono le cause remote dell’avvio dello studio dell’educazione con il metodo positivo. Esse facilitarono l’azione dei pionieri della ricerca empirica in campo educativo, che si sviluppò in Italia a partire dagli anni cinquanta del XX secolo per tre cause prossime: l’influsso delle sperimentazioni realizzate nelle scuole degli USA, la diffusione del pensiero di Dewey, l’impulso dato dall’Istituto Superiore di Pedagogia dei Salesiani allo studio delle scienze dell’educazione. Calonghi e Visalberghi, per primi, riuscirono a promuovere e a organizzare due scuole di ricerca empirica sui fatti educativi che hanno contribuito al pieno riconoscimento scientifico della Pedagogia sperimentale e della Docimologia a metà degli anni settanta. Per evitare di cadere nel tecnicismo, i ricercatori che usano il metodo sperimentale avvertono l’esigenza di inquadrare i loro studi specialistici all’interno di un vasto orizzonte di senso pedagogico.

Zanniello, G. (2014). L’avvio della ricerca empirica in campo educativo in Italia: il contributo di Calonghi e Visalberghi. JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES, 9(9/14), 185-201 [http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2014-009-zann].

L’avvio della ricerca empirica in campo educativo in Italia: il contributo di Calonghi e Visalberghi

ZANNIELLO, Giuseppe
2014-01-01

Abstract

While the dominant philosophy in Italy at the end of World War II was not favourable to pedagogical experimentation, some initiatives aiming to innovate – in the activist sense – contents and methods of school teaching represented the remote causes of the start of educational studies with the positive method. These initiatives facilitated the action of empirical research pioneers in the field of education, which developed in Italy in the 1950s for three main reasons: 1) the influence of experiments conducted in US schools, 2) the spreading of Dewey’s thought, 3) the impetus given by the Institute of Pedagogy of the Salesians to the study of educational sciences. Calonghi and Visalberghi were the first to promote and organize two lines of empirical research on educational facts which contributed to the full scientific recognition of Experimental Pedagogy and Docimology in the mid-1970s. In order to avoid technicalities, the researchers who use the experimental method feel the need to frame their specialized studies within a vast pedagogical horizon.
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Zanniello, G. (2014). L’avvio della ricerca empirica in campo educativo in Italia: il contributo di Calonghi e Visalberghi. JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES, 9(9/14), 185-201 [http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2014-009-zann].
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