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A New Education for a New Era: The Contribution of the Conferences of the New Education Fellowship to the Disciplinary Field of Education 1921–1938
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, vol. 40, no. 5-6
Date: 2004
Pages: 733-755
New Education Fellowship, New Education Movement, Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Abstract/Notes: This article examines the role played by the conferences of the New Education Fellowship (NEF) in the emerging disciplinary field of the sciences of education between the two world wars. As Fuchs points out in an article in the present issue, the field of education at this time was being internationalized, and, being an international movement, the field impacted on by the NEF was international in scope.1 As will be seen, the ideas and practices of the new education were mediated by national cultural differences and thus their impact on the disciplinary field varied from nation to nation.2 In addition, the development of the field in terms of journals, conferences and its institutionalization within nations was uneven, which presents further difficulties when trying to evaluate the impact of the NEF's conferences. Much of the following discussion focuses on their impact on the disciplinary field in England though, as will be seen, not exclusively so. One of the distinguishing features of the NEF other than its international scope was that it was a movement that connected lay enthusiasts for the educational reforms associated with the new education with major figures in the developing disciplines of psychology and education, such as Carl Gustav Jung, Jean Piaget and John Dewey. The relation between these lay and professional constituencies is examined and conclusions drawn regarding the professionalizing process in the field and the impact of the conferences on educational research and its institutionalization.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/0030923042000293742
ISSN: 0030-9230, 1477-674X
Book
Towards a New Education: A Record and Synthesis of the Discussions on the New Psychology and the Curriculum at the Fifth World Conference of the New Education Fellowship held at Elsinore, Denmark, in August 1929
Conferences, Denmark, Europe, International Conference of the New Education Fellowship (5th, Helsingør/Elsinore, Denmark, 8-21 August, 1929), International Montessori Congress (1st, Helsingør/Elsinore, Denmark, 8-21 August 1929), New Education Fellowship, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Language: English
Published: New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930
Doctoral Dissertation
The New Education Fellowship and the Reconstruction of Education: 1945 to 1966
Available from: UCL
Educational change, Europe, New Education Fellowship, New Education Movement, Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Abstract/Notes: During the 1920s and 1930s, the New Education Fellowship (NEF), founded in 1919, established itself as an important international force for radical education and educational experimentation. Its membership was drawn from many different countries and included some of the most prominent progressive educators of that period. By 1945, however, the movement was experiencing international decline. Membership had fallen and in many countries the new educational network had ceased to exist. This situation was a result not only of the destruction of the new educational network in Europe during the Second World War, but also of the change in the outlook of educationists and reformers who sought new solutions to the problems of the reconstruction of society and education. The purpose of this study is to explore the NEF's importance as a disseminator of educational and political ideals after 1945 and its contribution to debates about the post-war reconstruction of education and society, using the considerable but currently little-researched material held at the Institute of Education, University of London. This thesis examines the NEF's network after 1945 and considers how far the NEF successfully extended its membership amongst school teachers and educationists at teacher training colleges. The NEF also sought to develop an international network. The international activities of the NEF, both through links with other organisations, for example, the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), and its membership in those countries where the NEF maintained branches are explored in order to gauge the success of the NEF as a movement with internationalist ambitions.
Language: English
Published: London, England, 2009
Article
The Fifth International Conference of the New Education Fellowship
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: The Woman Teacher, vol. 10, no. 36
Date: Sep 27, 1929
Pages: 295
International Conference of the New Education Fellowship (5th, Helsingør/Elsinore, Denmark, 8-21 August, 1929), International Montessori Congress (1st, Helsingør/Elsinore, Denmark, 8-21 August 1929), Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc.
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Language: English
Article
Frictions and Fractions in the New Education Fellowship, 1920s-1930s: Montessori(ans) vs. Decroly(ans)
Available from: Università di Macerata
Publication: History of Education and Children's Literature (HECL), vol. 12, no. 1
Date: 2017
Pages: 251-270
Belgium, Europe, Holland, Netherlands, New Education Fellowship, Theosophical Society, Theosophy, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: The role of important figures and their interconnections has been vital in the existence and development of the New Education Fellowship (NEF). Already from the very beginning the NEF struggled with rivalries partly due to the adoration some of these coryphaei enjoyed by their followers. This affected the so highly-praised solidarity and close cooperation for the benefit of the child. During the 1920s and 1930s a conflict ran on between Montessorians and Decrolyans, culminated at the Locarno Congress (1927) and actually held the potency to undermine the NEF. These two camps propagated Il Metodo (1909) or La Méthode Decroly (1922), and for this purpose made use of Pour l’ère nouvelle, one of the NEF journals. We particularly observed this rivalry within the context of the Low Countries, Belgium and The Netherlands, although the conflict had a wider international character. In The Netherlands, the controversy carried on by the ambiguous Montessorian-Decrolyan Cornelia Philippi-Siewertsz van Reesema, who supported an ‘experimental eclecticism’, ended in a division of the Montessori Society. Even Montessori’s son, Mario, interfered by publishing a «philippic». In the long run, top people as Ensor, Ferrière, Claparède and Bovet – the last two likewise advocates of experimental eclecticism – were compelled to take up a position in order to restrain the conflict, to emphasise again the NEF’s internationality and to guarantee its survival.
Language: Italian
ISSN: 1971-1093, 1971-1131
Encyclopedia Article
Social Imaginaries and the New Education Fellowship
Available from: Springer Link
Page(s): 1-6
New Education Fellowship, Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Language: English
Published: Singapore: Springer, 2016
ISBN: 978-981-287-532-7
Article
Wereldconferentie New Education Fellowship
Available from: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives)
Publication: Montessori Opvoeding, no. 1
Date: 1965/1966
Pages: 12
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Language: Dutch
Article
Mededelingen van de N.E.F. (New Education Fellowship)
Available from: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives)
Publication: Montessori Opvoeding, no. 14
Date: May 1948
Pages: 15
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Language: Dutch
Article
Montessori Center of Oak Ridge Shares a New Vision: A New School, a New Site, a New Integrated Corporation
Publication: Family Life (AMI/USA), no. 6
Date: Spring 1985
Pages: 4-5
Americas, Montessori Center of Oak Ridge (Tennessee) - History, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
Archival Material Or Collection
Box 11, Folder 50 - Manuscript Fragments, n.d. - "The New Children - A Miracle in Education / "The New Children - or - New Method"
Available from: Seattle University
Date: n.d.
Edwin Mortimer Standing - Biographic sources, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Writings
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Language: English
Archive: Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections