ABSTRACT
The initial steps at revising teacher training in Allied-liberated territory had been taken in Naples during the first four months of 1944. A new teacher training curriculum was finally prepared by a ministerial commission of university professors, central inspectors and secondary and primary schoolteachers. The commission embraced a variety of ideological perspectives. In its preface the new curriculum continued to suggest that aspiring maestri would naturally acquire the "art of teaching" as they absorbed and reflected upon the classics of literary and scientific culture. But the program also called for the explicit discussion of the didactic problems and challenges of each elementary subject, particularly during the fourth and final year of the istituto magistrale. Of the three, the new primary school programma was clearly the most innovative. It met with varying responses within the classe magistrale.
