Abstract/Notes: Il fascino della teosofia catturò una fascia non marginale delle élites intellettuali europee nel primo Novecento e tale fenomeno non mancò di interessare la cultura e la società italiana. Nel solco delle nuove correnti di spiritualità allargatesi con l’aprirsi del nuovo secolo, e sulle macerie del positivismo scientistico che aveva egemonizzato la precedente stagione, la teosofia esercitò un’influenza straordinaria entro diversi ambiti di impegno culturale, che continuavano a guardare con fiducia alla possibilità di contribuire al progresso dell’umanità. La costruzione di una mitologia allegorica sull’avvento prossimo di una Nuova Era coinvolse specialmente la cultura dell’educazione, generando elementi di rinnovamento profondo del sapere pedagogico e dell’iniziativa in campo educativo. L’investimento di energie sulla bontà dei principi e dei metodi della pedagogia Montessori costituì solo uno degli aspetti, tra i più significativi, che assunse tale frontiera innovativa in area pedagogica, particolarmente sostenuta dalle reti teosofiche. La riscoperta del notevole contributo che la cultura teosofica complessivamente offrì a favore dell’organizzazione di una ‘teoria’ dell’Educazione Nuova costituisce, pertanto, un’operazione storiografica importante, per intendere come, anche in Italia, tra aspirazioni ideali, illusioni e generosi slanci profetici, una nuova pedagogia – moderna, democratica, liberale e mondial/globalista – si aprì degli spazi decisivi per cominciare a cambiare gli orizzonti contemporanei della formazione. / The fascination of theosophy captured a non-marginal band of European intellectual elites in the early twentieth century and this phenomenon did not fail to interest Italian culture and society. In the wake of the new currents of spirituality that widened with the opening of the new century, and on the ruins of the scientistic positivism that had dominated the previous season, theosophy exercised an extraordinary influence on various spheres of cultural commitment, which continued to look with confidence at opportunity to contribute to the progress of humanity. The construction of an allegorical mythology on the imminent advent of a New Era especially involved the culture of education, generating elements of profound renewal of pedagogical knowledge and initiative in the educational field. The investment of energy on the goodness of the principles and methods of Montessori pedagogy was only one of the most significant aspects that this innovative frontier assumed in the pedagogical area, particularly supported by theosophical networks. The rediscovery of the remarkable contribution that theosophical culture as a whole offered in favor of the organization of a 'theory' of New Education therefore constitutes an important historiographical operation, to understand how, also in Italy, between ideal aspirations, illusions and generous prophetic impulses, a new pedagogy - modern, democratic, liberal and mondial / globalist - opened up decisive spaces to begin to change the contemporary horizons of education.

Language: Italian

Published: Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy: Maggioli, 2020

ISBN: 978-88-916-4601-9

Abstract/Notes: The organization of thorough reference literature, in particular biobibliographic indexes dedicated to outstanding figures of Ukrainian and world science and history, which have been undeservedly forgotten for a long time, remains an urgent problem of modern studies in Ukraine. Іn recent decades, in the context of the development of alternative education and the creation of the New Ukrainian School, research of the scientific activity and creative heritage of the outstanding Italian teacher M. Montessori are revived. However, the content of the index “Montessori. International bibliography 1896-2000”, which contains more than 14,000 items of literature with comments in Italian and English, shows that by the beginning of the XXI century. Ukraine was an outsider to world Montessorianism. It is not mentioned in the list of 53 countries whose scientists most actively participated in the development of Montessori pedagogy [5]. In 2015-2016, only two reference books “Ray of Light of Maria Montessori” and “Maria Montessori (1870-1952): biobibliographic index” were compiled, which give an opportunity to make a certain idea about the state of research of the life path and creative output of the Italian teacher in Ukraine. Also a comprehensive historical and biographical study of the figure of M. Montessori has not yet been created, and there are no translations of her scientific works into Ukrainian. The only such translation was made in 1921 by Yu. Shcherbachenko.

Language: English

Published: Pisa, Italy: European Scientific Platform, 2023

Pages: 172-174

ISBN: 1-68524-916-7 978-1-68524-916-8