Introduction to Technological Education

Professor Tamborlini is the Director of the Centro Didattico per la Scuola Media in Rome, one of several national centers established during the 1950s to promote new programs and practices on all levels of education. He was a key figure in the school reform movement that culminated in the national law (of 1962) replacing the old Latin-oriented middle school and the vocational school — both for the 6th-8th year — with a new scuola media, common and compulsory for all, and no longer strictly preparatory for the (academic) liceo.