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- Title
Tra educazione e assistenza: la scuola speciale per ragazzi rachitici di Torino.
- Authors
Morandini, Maria Cristina
- Abstract
The essay reconstructs the history of the Institute for rickets sufferers of Turin, the very first in Italy and in Europe, which was set up to cure and educate rachitic children in 1872, on the initiative of Count Ernesto Ricardi di Netro and some other prominent citizens of Turin. From its foundations, the Institute was a free primary school distributed across different parts of the city. This widespread diffusion of the Institute schools sought to meet the needs of the poorest people living in different districts of Turin. Not only were rachitic pupils taught according to ministerial programmes for the first grade, they also practiced daily gymnastics, with individual and group exercises. They were also given basic hygiene education and medicines prescribed by physicians. In the Eighties a significant change took place when, following example of the Institute of Milan, a single building was set up, with the infirmary next to the school, with beds for hospitalization, and an outpatient unit - a sort of day-hospital for medical visits and cures. This change towards medical care opened up a process that came to an end at the beginning of the new century, with the progressive loss of the educational dimension in favour of the hospital dimension.
- Subjects
ITALY; CHILD care; RICKETS; HEALTH facility-based child care; RICKETS treatment; SCHOOL-based child care; SPECIAL education
- Publication
History of Education & Children's Literature, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 2, p241
- ISSN
1971-1093
- Publication type
Article