Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023)
Non-Monographic Section Articles

East Harlem, from Frontier Neighborhood to Urban School Center of the 1940s. An Overview of Leonard Covello’s Work

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  • Carmen Petruzzi
Carmen Petruzzi
Università di Foggia
Leonard Covello
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-14436

Published 2023-12-31

Keywords

  • italian-american history,
  • educational processes,
  • history of education,
  • Leonard Covello,
  • community centered school

How to Cite

Petruzzi, C. (2023). East Harlem, from Frontier Neighborhood to Urban School Center of the 1940s. An Overview of Leonard Covello’s Work. Rivista Di Storia dell’Educazione, 10(2), 61–66. https://doi.org/10.36253/rse-14436

Copyright (c) 2023 Carmen Petruzzi

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Abstract

The research starts from the urban and domestic dimension for a historical-anthropological reading of the neighborhood that led the inhabitants of the largest Italo-American community in the United States to collaborate in a collective project of social uplift and rethinking of educational paths in an intercultural, intergenerational and progressive key.

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