Vol. 29 No. 1 (2026): Anno XXIX, 1-2026
Dossier - L'attualità di Ernesto Codignola per interpretare le sfide del XXI secolo

Ernesto Codignola e le origini di Scuola-città Pestalozzi: tra neoidealismo, attivismo e educazione del cuore

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  • Tommaso Codignola
Tommaso Codignola
Docente - I.S.I.S. Gobetti Volta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ssf-17497

Published 2026-06-30

Keywords

  • autonomy,
  • self-government,
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
  • John Dewey,
  • humanism

How to Cite

Codignola, T. (2026). Ernesto Codignola e le origini di Scuola-città Pestalozzi: tra neoidealismo, attivismo e educazione del cuore. Studi Sulla Formazione Open Journal of Education, 29(1), 55–59. https://doi.org/10.36253/ssf-17497

Copyright (c) 2026 Tommaso Codignola

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Abstract

The paper explores the genesis of the main philosophical ideas that led Ernesto Codignola and his wife Anna Maria Melli to found the experimental school “Scuola-città Pestalozzi” in Firenze in 1945. His intellectual path was long, rich and complex, from his neo-idealistic Bildung by Scuola Normale di Pisa to the discovery of activism, particularly in the deweyan pragmatist version, which, as well known, emphasizes the deep ties between education and democracy. In fact, Scuola-Città was grounded on the general idea of a self-government community of children and teachers, aiming at the education to democratic life and to the development of personality in a global sense.

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