Secondary Education in Europe Between Discrimination and Social Mobility During the 1960s-1970s

Abstract

This article aims at studying some aspects of secondary school history in the context of comparative studies on the educational systems of European and East-European countries produced at the end of the 1970s. After an introduction that sheds light on the intellectual path of the Italian scholar Corrado Ziglio, the first part reflects on the epistemology of the comparative paradigm adopted to investigate the characteristics of national school structures. The second and third parts respectively describe the mechanisms of social mobility of secondary school systems, trying to clarify the existing discrimination with respect to access to higher education between historical legacies and newly initiated reforms.