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Article
Why Is Child Care Women's Work?
Publication: Montessori Education, vol. 8, no. 5
Date: 1998
Pages: 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 1354-1498
Article
Pope Cites Montessori in Speech on Women
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 8, no. 2
Date: Winter 1996
Pages: 30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Interview: Phyllis [Appelbaum] Povell: Women, Leadership and the Montessori Movement
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 12, no. 4
Date: Summer 2000
Pages: 1, 28-29
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Doctoral Dissertation
Égwú Àmàlà: Women in Traditional Performing Arts in Ogbaruland
Available from: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Africa, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples, Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
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Abstract/Notes: Within the complex dynamics of gender relationships and roles among African peoples, women often exercise power through song and dance. Such is the case among the women of Ogbaruland in southern Nigeria who, in their performance of the dance drama Égwú Àmàlà , act as custodians of knowledge and tradition and as transmitters of culture.Apart from being a repository of information about artistic traditions, the genre also documents and enacts the history and culture of the Ogbaru people. Égwú Àmàlà, which is the subject of my dissertation, is the most popular of all Ogbaru women dance genres. The term Égwú Àmàlà literally means "paddle dance" or "paddle drama," but it is often referred to as the "mermaid dance" or égwú mmili, that is, "water dance" because of its ritualistic associations with Onye-mmili, the water divinity. This genre is predominantly performed by women of all ages, with men playing secondary roles such as òpì(gourd horn) player and paddlers of canoes when the genre is performed in the river setting. My study of Égwú Àmàlà will add to a small but growing body of literature demonstrating how gender, a locus classicus for debates in contemporary scholarship, relates to other domains of culture such as musical performance, and how gender constructions can be articulated as well as negotiated in the genre and through the performing arts in general. Since the origin and performance of Égwú Àmàlà revolves around rituals and water, this dissertation also discusses the religious dimensions of the genre, stressing the importance of water to the dance, to the Ogbaru people and to African traditional religion as well. Considering the fact that women have for decades preserved Égwú Àmàlà, which epitomizes the culture and traditions of the Ogbaru people, the present investigation represents a significant contribution to ethnomusicological, gender, and cultural studies. [Excerpt: "With the ecclesiastical permission of the Holy See, Mother Mary Magdalen Charles Walker left her home country of Ireland in response to the request of Bishop Joseph Shanahan to serve the people of God in Calabar, southern Nigeria. Her focus was the education of children and helping to improve the lives of women in the area. She established the first Montessori School in Calabar – Convent school, which became an exemplary educational institution in West Africa." p. 54]
Language: English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2008
Article
Maria Montessori e gli ambienti milanesi dell'Unione Femminile e della Società Umanitaria [Maria Montessori and the Milanese circles of the Women's Union and the Humanitarian Society]
Available from: Unione Femminile Nazionale
Publication: Annali di storia dell'educazione e delle istituzioni scolastiche, vol. 25
Date: 2018
Pages: 8-26
Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Società Umanitaria (The Humanitarian Society)
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Abstract/Notes: This article aims to reconstruct the role played by the Società Umanitaria (Humanitarian Society), based in Milan, for the widespread of the Montessori’s Method. The studied period spans from 1908, which is the year of the initial mediation of the Women’s Union’s members for the creation of the first Children’s Houses in the Humanitarian Society’s district, until 1923, which is the year of Augusto Osimo’s death, the general secretary of this institution. In particular, through the analysis of Maria Montessori and Augusto Osimo’s letters exchange, the complex plot of their fruitful collaboration will be highlighted, which was carried out through the organization of Montessori training courses by the Humanitarian Society. Their cooperation was further reinvigorated by a common cause, which was the intervention in favor of children victims of the war, up till the project of a Montessori law secondary school for young adolescents. This last project was never realized because of Osimo’s severe illness occurred in 1920.
Language: Italian
ISSN: 1723-9672, 2612-6559
Article
Transnational Advocacy in Education: Maria Montessori's Connections with Australian Women
Available from: Torrossa
Publication: Annali di storia dell'educazione e delle istituzioni scolastiche, vol. 25
Date: 2018
Pages: 181-196
Australasia, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Oceania
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Abstract/Notes: This article traces Dr Montessori's personal and professional relationships with selected Australian women from the time of her First International Training course in Rome through to contemporary times. Some studied with Montessori in Europe and others visited her and then established schools and training colleges to disseminate Montessori methods in Australia and the United Kingdom. Australian women also became her publicists in the English-speaking press. In essence, the article highlights the transnational circulation of...
Language: English
ISSN: 1723-9672, 2612-6559
Article
Medical Women In Italy
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: British Medical Journal, no. 2050
Date: Apr 14, 1900
Pages: 923
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Abstract/Notes: Also available through PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2505649/?page=7
Language: English
ISSN: 0007-1447
Article
Lillian De Lissa, Women Teachers and Teacher Education in the Twentieth Century, by Kay Whitehead
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: History of Education, vol. 46, no. 6
Date: 2017
Pages: 856-859
Article
Women’s Role in Early Childhood Education in Europe
Available from: Springer Link
Publication: International Journal of Early Childhood, vol. 25, no. 1
Date: 1993
Pages: 67-75
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Abstract/Notes: The history of education is mainly a history of male educators and their ideas and systems of education, whereas the history of early childhood education is to a large extent a field of history where women have been the actors and to some extent also the writers about early childhood education. But this history is coloured by the withdrawn and to a large degree subordinate status of women, which is also reflected in the way history is written: A history of invisibility and anonymity, which also may have affected the place early childhood education has had in general educational history...
Language: English
DOI: 10.1007/BF03174635
ISSN: 0020-7187, 1878-4658
Article
Maria Montessori (1870-1952): Women's Emancipation, Pedagogy and Extra Verbal Communication
Available from: SciELO
Publication: Revista Médica de Chile, vol. 143, no. 5
Date: 2015
Pages: 658-662
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Abstract/Notes: Maria Montessori is one of the most well-known women in Italian history. Although she was the first woman who graduated in medicine in Italy, she is mostly known as an educator. Her teaching method -the Montessori Method- is still used worldwide. Because she could not speak English during the imprisonment in India, there was a big obstacle for her communication with children. However, the need to adopt a non-verbal communication, led her to a sensational discovery: children use an innate and universal language. This language, made of gestures and mimic, is called extra verbal communication.
Language: English
DOI: 10.4067/S0034-98872015000500014
ISSN: 0034-9887