Learn about the life of Amélia Rodrigues, an educator, writer, and pioneer in Brazilian education, whose dedication to teaching and Christian values left a legacy that continues to inspire educators and families. Her life invites us to reflect on the transformative power of education grounded in love, ethics, and the holistic development of the human person.
Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his pioneering research on children’s cognitive development. He proposed that children actively construct their knowledge through interaction with their environment, passing through four main stages of development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations.
We understand education as the development of the eternal Spirit’s potential. We cannot, therefore, do it without analyzing evolution, both in its spiritual and material aspects, in order to arrive at a real understanding of the development and learning process, since the physical body is the Spirit’s organ of manifestation and the instrument of its interaction with the environment.
BENEDITA FERNANDES (1883 – 1947) Conhecida como “A Dama da Caridade”, Benedita Fernandes dedicou grande parte da sua vida ao cuidado e amor ao
Meimei, pseudonym of Irma de Castro Rocha was a Brazilian educator and after passing away she manifested herself through Chico Xavier’s letters.
The story of Maria Montessori, the first woman to enter the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Italy in 1892. She was encouraged by her parents, supported mainly by her mother, Renilde, and poorly received by teachers and students. At the university she met Professor Giuseppe Montesano, who guided her towards psychiatry and her first works in a mental health hospital where there were many abandoned children. She confronts doctors, experts and scholars, renowned pedagogues, and her method is increasingly gaining ground and reaching other parts of Europe and America. This makes her recognized in Italy, although she never stops teaching children, renewing her methods and guiding teachers in new pedagogical and didactic paths.
This article presents some of the most beautiful and extraordinary work of this remarkable Brazilian woman, dedicated to educating and instructing the less privileged people.
Eurípides Barsanulfo, self-taught educator, teaches us with his example of life how to serve humanity with infinite love and personal selflessness, through Education. Slandered, humiliated, misunderstood, many times, he remained firm in his proposal and brave in the face of adversity, showing with immense tenderness that only through the integral Education of the being, will humanity successfully achieve the objectives proposed for the Third Millennium.
“The Children’s Spiritist Education will undoubtedly contribute to the formation of a world in which fraternity will no longer be an ideal to be achieved, but will become a constant reality in the relationship between individuals and people. Is there a better program than this?” Cecilia Rocha
Become familiar with the beautiful life of the Educator Ana Fuentes de Cardona, born in Cartagena, Colombia, who would become one of the most admirable workers of Spiritism in the country, directing the Colombian Spiritist Federation. Undoubtedly, her example in the fulfillment of her duties towards Education and Spiritism is an inspiration for all.
