Aurelia Josz’s Educational and Didactic Experimentation in Milan at the beginning of the 20th century. L’Expérimentation éducative et didactique d'Aurelia Josz à Milan au début du vingtième siècle

In the first decades of the twentieth century, in Milan, there was a climate of particular fervour and innovation in the field of education and training. Within this framework, the experimentation of Aurelia Josz is interesting and little known: she was a teacher, trainer and writer who founded in 1902 the Scuola Pratica Agraria Femminile. It was a training course for girls who wanted to become professionals in agriculture, breeding, floriculture, gardening. The experimentation was connected with European models that the author knew and was in line with the requests of the new schools with regard to the methodologies adopted, focused on the concreteness and spontaneity of learning, laboratory activities and group work. This contribution will analyse Josz’s experimentation and compare it with the contemporary pedagogical debate