Abstract

LEON-PALENCIA, Ana Cristina. Governing Home, Family and Themselves: Imperatives of Female Early Childhood Education in Colombia (First Half of the 20th Century). Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2021, n.82, pp.411-428.  Epub Apr 06, 2022. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num82-11381.

This research article presents some results of a study on the practices of gir education in Colombia, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Three displacements framed the emergence of these practices: first, a modification in the understanding of the feminine, synthesized in the passage from beautiful sex to modern women. Second, the adjustments in the education of girls who moved from family space to school. Third and last, a figure of the woman appeared in the social sphere more linked to her role as mother than that of wife. These displacements served as a condition of possibility for a type of educational practices, whose objective was focused on the imperative: to govern other women and themselves. This implied that, although the practices of feminine education maintained their confinement in the home, the woman became a fundamental part of the strategies of government in the first half of the 20th century. From the thematic reading of pedagogy, urbanity, childcare, hygienic manuals, medical and pedagogical journals of wide circulation, educational regulations, among other documentary sources analyzed through the tools of Foucauldian wedge, in the text three issues are developed: one of a conceptual nature, another of a political type and one more of a practical kind.

Keywords : Female education; history of education; pedagogy; government; aesthetic education.

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