Abstract

SAENZ-OBREGON, Javier  and  SALCEDO, Manuela. Formative Practices of the Family: The Configuration of the Woman as Educator. Pedagogía y Saberes [online]. 2020, n.52, pp.53-66. ISSN 0121-2494.  https://doi.org/10.17227/pys.num52-11022.

This article is the result of an on-going research project. It presents one of the results of the case-study on the formation of the family, undertaken as part of the research project on Out of school formative practices. It presents the approach of the project, based on the use of the concepts of formation (Bildung), government, counter-conducts and practices of the self; and its central questions regarding the conceptual dimension, characteristics and effects of these practices. Based on a detailed examination of texts directed to the formation of the family (treatises, manuals and an exemplary novel) between the XV and the XX century in central Europe and Colombia, the article describes and analyses three events in the configuration of mothers as educators in the family (i) the catholic valuation of their nature as morally and intellectually weak, (ii) their configuration as responsible for the moral formation of their sons and daughters, (iii) their valuation as morally superior to men and therefore as responsible for the moral education of their husbands. The text problematizes two paradoxes and presents some ideas in order to understand them: being conceived as morally weak why are mothers assigned the role of forming morally their children?, and later, being conceived as morally superior to men, why do they continue having a subordinate position vis a vis their husbands?

Keywords : morality; Pestalozzi; Vives; government; maternal love; formation; family; mothers.

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