Womanliness in the Slums: A Free Kindergarten in Early Twentieth-Century Edinburgh
This paper considers the intersection of Spiritual Motherhood, early childhood education and child welfare in early twentieth-century Edinburgh. Its focus is St Saviour's Child Garden (SSCG), which opened in the Canongate, in November 1906, part of the Free Kindergarten movement that emerged in Europe and North America in the late nineteenth century. The paper focuses on the SSCG's founder Lileen Hardy, in order to trace the development of this new approach to child welfare and women's work in Britain. It discusses her training at the Sesame House for Home-Life Training in London, her move to Edinburgh, and the network of predominantly women reformers, whose interests ranged from urban reform to medical welfare, she found there. It shows how this network facilitated the founding of the SSCG and discusses the form it took and Hardy's implementation of a modified form of Froebelian praxis. In so doing its concern is to show how Free Kindergarten forms part of a wider history of social welfare and urban reform as well as to the history of early childhood education, and to move attention away from the men usually associated with innovations in Scottish social reform like Patrick Geddes, and onto a group of women who created a women and child-centred proto-Welfare State in pre-First World War Edinburgh.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12287
ZNR 38 (2016) Heft 3/4 erschienen
Heft 3/4 des 38. Jahrgangs der ZNR ist nun erschienen. Es enthält sechs Beiträge sowie jeweils einen Länderbericht sowie einen Diskussionsbeitrag von
- Helge Dedek, Montreal
- Matthias Jahn – Barbara-Luise Bendrick, Frankfurt/Main
- Corjo J. H. Jansen, Nijmegen
- Arnd Koch, Augsburg
- Alfred Kohler, Wien
- Matthias Maetschke, Bonn
- Sebastian Schermaul, Leipzig
- Jaroslav Valkoun, Prag
Das genaue Inhaltsverzeichnis von ZNR 38 (2016) Heft 3/4 ist hier zu finden:
Inventing Revivalist Millennialism: Edwards and the Scottish Connection
Revivalism and millennialism are important concepts that influence contemporary evangelicalism. However it was in the Great Awakening that Jonathan Edwards and select Scottish ministers first connected revivalism and millennialism together in a new evangelical print culture. Evangelical ministers used publications and personal correspondence to hypothesise that the current Atlantic revivals were signs pointing towards Christ’s millennial kingdom. The 1740s stands as a unique decade where evangelical ministers created an influential synthesis of revivalism, social progress, and millennialism. The revivalist and millennial synthesis was a harbinger of the evangelical future for religious movements in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12426