Language: Italian

ISSN: 0030-5391

Abstract/Notes: In the present paper the author proposes a mytho‐symbolic analysis of some of the main texts of Maria Montessori (1870–1952) in which the theme of the New Child was the object of particular attention. Study of these texts enables the author to demonstrate that Montessori insisted on the redemptive character of the new child. The child serves as the guide to the adult in forming a society of new men. He constitutes the guidance for the construction of a new more harmonious, pacific future. This study is based on a pedagogic‐cultural approach by the use of a mythanalytic hermeneutics and the elaboration of an ideologemic decor that shows the vectors of the texts analysed as well as the mythical contours of those ideas. The result of the mythanalytic reading, carried out with the most rigorous hermeneutic criteria, concludes that Montessori is under a strong influence of Christian mythologemes such as that of the Saviour Child or its related myths of Hermes and Prometheus.

Language: French

DOI: 10.1080/00309230600552088

ISSN: 0030-9230, 1477-674X

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

Abstract/Notes: Debate about the selection and grouping of pupils by ability has been rekindled in the drive to raise standards. In this paper, we review the literature on ability grouping and its effects on academic and non-academic outcomes for pupils, including self-esteem, attitudes towards school, and alienation. In addition, we consider aspects of the school environment that may mediate the influence of organisational grouping on pupil outcomes. The review refers extensively to British research but draws on international work where appropriate. It is argued that a return to a national system of selection and structured grouping is unlikely to raise standards. Some alternatives to ability grouping are put forward for consideration.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/030549899104026

ISSN: 0305-4985, 1465-3915

Language: Italian

ISSN: 0030-5391

Language: Italian

ISSN: 0030-5391

Language: Italian

ISSN: 0030-5391

Language: Italian

ISSN: 0030-5391

Language: Italian

ISSN: 0030-5391

Language: Italian

ISSN: 0030-5391