Montessori for All? Indian Experiments in 'Child Education', 1920s-1970s

Autor/in	Tschurenev, Jana
Titel	Montessori for All? Indian Experiments in 'Child Education', 1920s-1970s
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 57 (2021) 3, S.322-340 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tschurenev, Jana)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
DOI	10.1080/03050068.2021.1888408
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Montessori Method; Educational History; Rural Education; Educational Change; Nationalism; Early Childhood Education; Private Schools; Access to Education; Teaching Methods; Social Work; Rural Areas; Community Development; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Montessori pedagogics; Montessori-Pädagogik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Bildungsreform; Nationalismus; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Private school; Privatschule; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Soziale Arbeit; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Indien
Abstract	This article discusses the 'Indianisation', 'nationalisation', and 'ruralisation' of the Montessori method in India at the eve, and in the aftermath of the country's political independence (1947). From 1914 onwards, Indian nationalists received Montessori's ideas through publications, the networks of the new education movement, and the Theosophical Society. While innovative pre-schools for elite children worked closely with the 'original' method, the "Nutan Bal Shikshan Sangh" ('New Child Education Society', NBSS) adapted it to local conditions ('Indianisation'). The NBSS aimed to universalise Montessori-based child education, as a contribution to nation-building ('nationalisation'). With the establishment of the "Gram Bal Shiksha Kendra" (Rural Child Education Centre), in 1945, the NBSS brought the country's most marginalised into the modernising reach of the new state, furthering Gandhi's vision of 'rural reconstruction' ('ruralisation'). From these experiments, the institutional model of the Anganwadi emerged, through which today millions of Indian children receive integrated child development services. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01