School memories: educational practices through the oral testimonies of former teachers and students of the Italian Marche region Authors Lucia Paciaroni Università degli Studi di Macerata (Itàlia) Keywords: oral history, 20th century, fascism, Republic, Italy. Abstract This article aims at investigating some educational practices used in the classroom by former teachers through the oral statements of both teachers and students. The research carried out has centered on those who attended primary school in the Italian region of Le Marche from the 1930s to the early 1960s. The main topic of this research refers to corporal punishment, which was inflicted in Italy until the 1960s, as described in this study. Taking into account the legislation at that time, it will be demonstrated that slapping, hitting with a stick and kneeling on chickpeas or corn were daily practices which did not provoke any reaction from the families. After explaining the methodology, with the compilation of oral statements –which make us encounter other serious problems– in the first part of the paper some excerpts of the interviews with former students who attended school during the fascist period will be provided and the teachers’ educational practices will be analyzed on the basis of their memories. In the second part, the testimonies of former teachers will be presented and through the description of anecdotes and daily routines their point of view on punishments will become quite clear.Keywords: oral history, 20th century, fascism, Republic, Italy. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF (Español) PDF Issue No. 35 (2020): gener-juny Section Monographic theme License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.