Ilustración y educación en la primera infancia. Un ejemplo: Fernández de Lizardi

Authors

Jesús Hernández GarcíaSalto de línea Universidad de Oviedo.

Abstract

The Enlightenment and early childhood education. An example: Fernández de LizardiSalto de línea Salto de línea This article studies and considers early childhood education from the personal perspective and thinking of the writer and journalist (essayist) José Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi, also known as “El Pensador Mexicano”, who was always in accordance with the ideas, thoughts and pedagogical premises of the Enlightenment, a period which highlighted the enormous value and importance of education for humankind and society in general, and conferred new values on childhood education from the very moment of birth.We, therefore, analyse and study what José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi considered and reflected on with regard to the diverse forms of primary care for children: the importance of the mother while breast-feeding; the affection, education and primary care that have to be provided; the possibility that the father and the mother could have (or have to choose) a wet nurse or a nanny to help bring up the child; reflections on and guidance for good health and physical education; early moral education, etc. Finally,we highlight the importance of early years education in this first stage of a child’s life for his/her future development.All the above has been studied within a very precise and delimited historic, social and ideological context.

Keywords

The Enlightenment, enlightenment education, early childhood, physical education, moral education.