- Angelo Patri
Angelo Patri (
26 November ,1876 – 1965) was an Italian-American author and educator.His real Italian surname was Petraglia and he was born in Piaggine (salerno).Patri came to the United States in the 1880s. ["Current biography: who's new and why", 1940] He gained a B.A. at the College of the City of New York in 1897, and an M.A. at Columbia University in 1904. A schoolteacher in New York from 1898 to 1908, he was the first Italian-born American to become a school principal in the United States. In attempting to engage the student with tasks that went beyond book learning, he was influenced by the writings of
John Dewey . From 1908 to 1913 he was Principal of Public School No. 4, and in 1913 he became Principal of Public School 45, Bronx, New York. ["Italian-American Who's Who", 1938] He wrote a syndicated column, "Our Children", on child psychology for newspapers and magazines.Works
Books for parents and teachers:
*"A School Master of the Great City", 1917
*"The School That Everybody Wants", 1922
*"Child Training", 1922
*"School and Home", 1925
*"Problem of Childhood", 1926
*"What Have You Got to Give?", 1926
*"The Questioning Child", 1928Books for children:
*"White Patch", 1911
*"Pinocchio in Africa", 1911 (tr.)
*"Spirit of America", 1924
*"Pinocchio in America", 1928 (tr.)
*"The Adventures of Pinocchio", 1937 (tr.)References
External links
*gutenberg|5327|name=Pinocchio in Africa
*worldcat id|id=lccn-n91-79923
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