"Διδακτήρια άθλια, ρυπαρά και ετοιμόρροπα, δυσώδη και σκοτεινά...": Η υγιεινή κατάσταση των σχολικών κτηρίων στα τέλη του 19ου αιώνα μέσα από τα θεσμικά κείμενα της εποχής

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to capture the image of Greek schools buildings through institutional texts. The last quarter of the 19th c. there is a strong scientific and legislative interest in improving the conditions of schooling in Greece, a fact that has gradually highlighted the need to institutionalize school hygiene. This field, although belated for the Greek educational reality, marks the transition to a framework of necessary institutional activities, complementary to the new economic transformations and socio-cultural changes that are "triggered" from the 1870s onwards. It seems that the coexistence of pedagogical and medical science, but also reasons of social balance, make it imperative the need to monitor the health of students and the school environment. The issue of doctorates and their quality suitability emerges directly intertwined, as a central axis around which dysfunctional elements are wrapped, contrary to the purpose of education. The findings of the research, through the qualitative detection of institutional evidence, confirm and confirm the concerns of the educational world about the deteriorating school hygiene, the shortages, and the general misery of the schools buildings at the end of the 19th century.