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Fairy Tales, Children's Books and Schools in Sweden and Italy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Historical Comparisons and Pedagogical Remarks
Available from: Università di Bologna
Publication: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica / Journal of Theories and Research in Education, vol. 9, no. 2
Date: 2014
Pages: 39-56
Europe, Italy, Montessori method of education, Northern Europe, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Southern Europe, Sweden
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Abstract/Notes: This paper examines some historical parallels in the field of children’s literature and education between Sweden and Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sweden and Italy are at the opposite ends of Europe, but they exhibited some interesting similarities in children’s book and pedagogy during those decades. Suffice it to say that two of the most important European education experts of the time – the Swede Ellen Key and the Italian Maria Montessori – were in relationship, appreciated each other’s work and exchanged ideas and remarks on educational and social issues. Parallels cannot obscure the large differences between the two nations, but there were also convergences that must be examined: researches on folktales, mass education and education of the élite were important issues in both countries. Moreover the convergences will intensify further in the coming decades, because Sweden and Italy belong to the same European context.
Language: English
DOI: 10.6092/issn.1970-2221/4362
ISSN: 1970-2221
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Pädagogische Kulturtransfers Italien-Tessin (1894-1936) [Cultural Transfers Between Educational Systems: Italy-Ticino (1894-1936) / Transfer culturali tra sistemi educativi: Italia-Ticino (1894-1936) / Transferts culturels entre systèmes éducatifs: Italie-Tessin (1894-1936)]
Available from: Universität Bern
Publication: Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Bildungswissenschaften / Swiss Journal of Educational Research, vol. 40, no. 1
Date: 2018
Pages: 49-66
Europe, Italy, Montessori method of education - History, Switzerland, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: In the period 1880-1940 the education system of italian-speaking Canton Ticino was seeing pedagogical transfers coming from Italy. In a first period, the peagogical élite although deied that these pedagocal ideas came from Italy, using the terminological (and ideological) construction of “Metodo intuitivo” (i.e. Pestalozzi and Girard as the only fathers of the method). After 1910 the pedagogical influence of italian New Education (Montessori, Lombardo-Radice) grew more because the general interest in Ticino for italian culture grew with the movement for Defence of Ticino’s italian identity. World war 1 and fascism brought the New Education fellows in Ticino into a deep dilemma: their pedagogical ideas and actions were accepted only if accompanied by a total distance from any official italian political position. This was very difficult and led at the end to a growing total distance from Italy, even if the pedagogical élite tried to avoid the complete end of any cultural contact with Italy. The end cames with Abyssinia war and World war II that led to a total isolation of Ticino from Italy.
Language: German
ISSN: 2624-8492
Article
Between New Education and Idealistic Vision: Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and the Arduous Path of L'educazione Nazionale in Italy (1927-1933)
Available from: Universität Bern
Publication: Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Bildungswissenschaften / Swiss Journal of Educational Research, vol. 41, no. 2
Date: Sep 25, 2019
Pages: 354-368
Europe, Italy, New Education Fellowship, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Opening the issue of Pour l’ère nouvelle (January 1927), Adolphe Ferrière announced that L’Educazione Nazionale, directed by Giuseppe Lombardo Radice, would be the Italian partnership of the educational press officially committed with the New Education Fellowship. The strong relation between the two scholars was based on a shared vision of education as really focused on the release of children’s natural energies. The cultural mission of the Italian journal was not an easy one to accomplish, due to the increasingly heavy atmosphere characterizing the Italian public life, signed by the turning of Fascism into an authoritarian Regime. Up to the turning point of the thirties the review often tried to draw attention onto several themes and figures related to the progressive expansion of the New Education. Unfortunately, the involution of Fascism hindered the journal’s activity, finally forcing its closure in 1933.
Language: English
DOI: 10.24452/sjer.41.2.6
ISSN: 2624-8492
Article
Proving the Worth of the Montessori Method: An Account of Actual Experience with the System in Italy and America
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: The Volta Review, vol. 15, no. 1
Date: Apr 1913
Pages: 38-42
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Language: English
ISSN: 0042-8639
Article
Theosophy and Anthroposophy in Italy during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Available from: Theosophical History
Publication: Theosophical History, vol. 16, no. 2
Date: 2012
Pages: 81-119
Europe, Feminism, Italy, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Southern Europe, Spirituality, Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Abstract/Notes: "This is a revised, expanded version of an essay originally published in Italian in: Gian Mario Cazzaniga (ed.), Storia d'Italia. Annali 25: Esoterismo, Einaudi, Turin 2010, 569598."
Language: English
ISSN: 0951-497X
Book Section
Progressive Education in Italy and Spain
Book Title: Progressive Education Across the Continents: A Handbook
Pages: 85-104
Europe, Italy, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori schools, New Education Fellowship, New Education Movement, Progressive education, Southern Europe, Spain
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Language: English
Published: Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang, 1995
ISBN: 978-3-631-48917-8 978-0-8204-2914-4 3-631-48917-X 0-8204-2914-7
Series: Heidelberger Studien zur Erziehungswissenschaft (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) , 44
Article
Dr. Montessori Off to Italy
Available from: Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
Publication: New York Tribune (New York, New York)
Date: Dec 24, 1913
Pages: 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 1941-0646
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News Items [Argentina, Brazil, Ceylon, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, India, Ireland, Italy, Liberia, Switzerland, U.S.A., Vietnam]
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1960, no. 2
Date: 1960
Pages: 23–27
Africa, Americas, Argentina, Asia, Brazil, Ceylon, Denmark, Europe, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
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L'oeuvre d'éducation et la méthode de M.lle Montessori en Italie [The educational work and the method of Mademoiselle Montessori in Italy]
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Revue pédagogique, vol. 60, no. 3
Date: Mar 15, 1912
Pages: 250-265
Europe, Italy, Southern Europe
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Language: French
Article
Mothers' Milk and Mothers' Time: Childcare Advice and the Conceptualization of Demand Feeding in Post-1945 Britain and Italy
Available from: Cambridge University Press
Publication: The Historical Journal, vol. 67, no. 1
Date: 2024
Pages: 102-123
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Abstract/Notes: This article draws on childcare advice to investigate the shift from breastfeeding by the clock to feeding on demand in twentieth-century Britain and Italy, to demonstrate that it was not just mothers’ bodies, nor what they fed their children, but their time that was subject to political, medical, and cultural attention. The comparative approach highlights the convergences and divergences in breastfeeding advice, illuminating the interactions with political and intellectual currents, as much as social and economic patterns. ‘Scientific motherhood’ and the promotion of feeding by the clock dominated in Britain and Italy at the beginning of the century, and persisted under fascist initiatives to regulate breastfeeding. Some existing differences, however, contained the seeds of greater divergence after 1945 in the two countries. Shaped by differing intersections of medical, psychoanalytic, and feminist thinking, the uneven shift to the concept of demand feeding slowly took root in Britain in the post-war period, but in Italy only in the context of 1968 counter-cultural ideas. The 1970s brought the conversation back to a point of convergence between Britain and Italy in the feminist recognition of the complexities of balancing the ‘rights and duties’ of mothers and children when it came to feeding babies.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X23000456
ISSN: 0018-246X, 1469-5103