Training to be a Social Worker in Post World War in Italy: the Experience of the “Società Umanitaria”

Abstract

The article aims to reconstruct the history of the School of Social Work in Milan, started in 1946 at the Società Umanitaria and named, from 1967, to the memory of Alessandrina Ravizza, who, thanks to her work in the field of assistance, can be considered the precursor of today’s social workers, at a time when this professional figure did not yet exist. The articulated path of birth and development of this School is testified by the documents preserved at the “Società Umanitaria”, which allow us to understand the paradigmatic value that this institution assumed in the broader Italian context.