Philosophy of education in the «Rivista Pedagogica» (1908-1939)

Founded and directed by Luigi Credaro (1860-1939), «Rivista Pedagogica» (1908-1939) was the most important early 20th century Italian pedagogy journal. It developed Herbart’s model of pedagogy in a critical, anti-dogmatic view, combining the gnoseological priority that positivism attached to empirical and experimental sciences and the Kantian ideas of the transcendental foundations of experience and of the «primacy of Practical Reason». This resulted in a theory of education focused on such concepts as relationality and antinomicity and a view of the purpose of education as strongly bound to the historical and social context but in a dynamic way that refused conforming.