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Social Class, Language and Power

‘Letter to a Teacher’: Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana

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  1. Carmel Borg

    1. Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta

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  2. Mario Cardona

    1. Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK

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  3. Sandro Caruana

    1. Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta

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  • This book provides the basis for a process of schooling that serves as an antidote to the prevailing contemporary system, a system which gives pride of place to testing, standardization, league tables and vouchers.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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    1. Introduction

      • Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona, Sandro Caruana
      Pages 1-14

    2. Language Use and Style in ‘Lettera a Una Professoressa’

      • Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona, Sandro Caruana
      Pages 15-29

  3. Letter to a Teacher

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Part One — Compulsory Schooling Cannot Fail its Students

      • Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona, Sandro Caruana
      Pages 33-105

    3. Part Two — At the Magistrali you also Fail, But…

      • Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona, Sandro Caruana
      Pages 107-143

    4. Part Three — Documentation

      • Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona, Sandro Caruana
      Pages 145-163

    1. Notes and Commentary

      • Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona, Sandro Caruana
      Pages 165-211

    2. Epilogue

      • John P. Portelli
      Pages 213-218

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 219-221
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About this book

This book foregrounds the ideas of an important European pedagogue whose writings provide insights for a critical social justice oriented approach to education. Lorenzo Milani has all the credentials to be regarded as potentially a key source of inspiration for critical pedagogy. Milani’s approach to education for social justice gives importance to a number of issues, notably social class issues, race issues especially with his critique of North-South relations and cultural/technological transfer, the collective dimension of learning and action (emphasis is placed on reading and writing the word and the world collectively), student-teachers and teacher-students (a remarkable form of peer tutoring), reading and responding critically to the media (newspapers), the existential basis of one’s learning (from the occasional to the profound motive) and the fusion of academic and technical knowledge. There is also an anti-war pedagogy that emerges from his defence of the right to ‘conscientious objection’ with its process of reading/teaching history against the grain. There is much in the work of Milani and his students to provide the basis for a process of schooling that serves as an antidote to the prevailing contemporary system, a system which gives pride of place to testing, standardization, league tables and vouchers. -- Peter Mayo, University of Malta
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta

    Carmel Borg, Sandro Caruana

  • Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK

    Mario Cardona

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Class, Language and Power

  • Book Subtitle: ‘Letter to a Teacher’: Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana

  • Authors: Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona, Sandro Caruana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-479-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-479-6Published: 19 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 222

  • Topics: Education, general

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