著者
山内 紀幸
出版者
教育哲学会
雑誌
教育哲学研究 (ISSN:03873153)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.1999, no.80, pp.1-17, 1999-11-10 (Released:2010-05-07)
参考文献数
57

This paper examines how Montessori's idea of “New Women”, held prior to “The Children House”, had an influence on her subsequent concept of education.After graduation from Rome University, the feminist Montessori tried to demonstrate social inequalities between men and women statistically and scientifically. However, after the birth of her son, Mario, her feministic attitude as well as her idea of women underwent a change. From then on she argued that “New Women” must be equipped with the scientific methods of childcare. The idea of “New Women” led Montessori to set up “The Children House” for the training of “New Women.” Her idea of “New Women” was based on the image of mother's womb which supplied an embryo with love and nutrition. Similarly, in Montessori's educational thought, the image of mother's womb underlay the concepts of “Environment” and of “Spiritual embryo.” “Environment” corresponded to the mother's womb, “Spiritual embryo”, to the embryo.This paper shows the relationship of Montessori's thoughts before and after “The Children House”, along with the relationship of her idea of women and her educational thought.
著者
山内 紀幸
出版者
教育哲学会
雑誌
教育哲学研究 (ISSN:03873153)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.1998, no.77, pp.78-91, 1998-05-10 (Released:2009-09-04)
参考文献数
49

This paper attempts to examine how Montessori understood children in the context of eugenics from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Based on that examination, this paper also studies why the scientist Montessori became an educator.In the context of eugenics, scientists generally agreed to the recapitulation theory. They Believed that people's physical sizes and shapes correlated with their levels of morality. They also believed that it was possible to judge the levels of the morality of people by measuring their bodily degenerations. This belief led the scientists to the reform of society. In fact, many of social reforms were performed through sterilizations and eugenic marriages.Montessori also agreed to the recapitulation theory. She thought that it was possible to judge the levels of morality of children by measuring their bodily degenerations. However, she did not intend to reform society by sterilizations. She considered degenerations of children as diseases that can be healed and intended to reform society by treating or improving children, as the Italian school in Anthropology did. Montessori's recognition of the curability in children led her from a scientist to an educator.