This article examines the dissemination of agricultural education in primary schools in the Romagna, an important rural area in post-unification Italy. The topic is explored within a wider perspective, analysing the impact of institutional changes – at both the national and local levels – on the transmission of agricultural knowledge in primary education during the final quarter of the nineteenth century. Two particular elements of the process are examined: students, as the intended beneficiaries of the educational process; and teachers, who as well as having a key role in reducing the extent of illiteracy were sometimes also involved in disseminating agricultural knowledge. The transfer of that knowledge appears to have been a very challenging task, not least because of the scant interest that Italy's ruling class showed towards this issue. However, increasing importance seems to have been given to agricultural education in primary schools during the economic crisis of the 1880s, when the expansion of this provision was thought to be among the factors that might help to prepare the ground for the hoped-for ‘agricultural revolution’.

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农业教育和意大利小学教师：十九世纪后期的罗马涅

本文考察了意大利统一后重要农村地区罗马涅地区小学农业教育的传播情况。该主题在更广泛的视角下进行了探讨，分析了 19 世纪最后 25 年间国家和地方层面的制度变革对农业知识在小学教育中传播的影响。考察了该过程的两个特定要素：作为教育过程的预期受益者的学生；和教师，他们不仅在减少文盲程度方面发挥关键作用，有时还参与传播农业知识。这种知识的转移似乎是一项非常具有挑战性的任务，尤其是因为意大利统治阶级对这个问题表现出的兴趣不大。