Periodical press of Italian primary teachers' associations in the second half of the XIX century

In the second half of the XIX century, journals and gazettes which were the expression of teachers' associations spread also in Italy, as a consequence of the building of a national school system and of the evolution of the school publishing market. It was a phenomenon which in the wider framework of the development of the educational and school press, was closely linked to the need of building a stronger professional identity of Italian teachers. Indeed, in that period they began to structure themselves as a social group with the ambition to manage to count in the political arena and in school policy making. This article aims to analyse the origins and the development of the magazines which in the second half of the XIX century gave voice to the associations' world of Italian male and female schoolteachers.