The term “asylum” here means safe haven, home, protection.
Before presenting the infant schools where is the center of early childhood in the late 18th century?
In rural care is family.
In the urban world, when the mother can not keep the child can stay with neighbors or with children older than him. But increasingly it will be placed. They are children of merchants where the woman is boutique and children of workers artisans.
In the well-off woman entrusts her child to a nurse or “Gardeux.” Sometimes she went so she let herself influenced by the current of the time, launched by J. J. Rousseau. Depending on the environment for the child a nurse more or less near.
For the country woman who has just given birth is a way to make money. There are employment agencies with “recomandaresses”. For control, municipal offices open nurses.
Homes for children are weaned income nurse. In the nineteenth century they will be gradually visited by charitable ladies and physicians. The descriptions in terms of health are catastrophic. To calm the children gave them syrup of poppies.
With the accession to Aluja you can read:
* Key initiators or founders of infant schools:
Robert Owen
“Peer education” or Lancastrian
Jean Marie Denys Cochin
Madame de Pastoret
Madame Mallet
Mrs. Millet
Mary Pope Carpantier
* On the method
What are the qualities of the Director
Program content
The organization
* What are the stated objectives of infant schools?
* How do they talk about the authors of the child?
* What model for the education of young children?
* The mixed or co-education
* Let’s schedule a day room for asylum
* Training Guidelines
* Bibliography
At the time of infant schools
Contemporary publications
