Ellen Key and the Birth of a new Children’s Culture

Abstract

Catharina Hallstrom and Hedda Jansson and Tiziana Pironi begin the Special Issue by giving an engrossed introduction to the following articles. Hallstroms short biography of Ellen Key sets the background to Key's activities and philosophy that she expressed in lectures and books throughout life. Hedda Jansson gives an over-view of Ellen Key’s development toward an individualistic and monistic life philosophy and its impact on Keys concept of feminism and education. Tiziana Pironi continues in a discussion of how Key's book, The Century of the Child , influenced Italian pedagogy and social feminism at the beginning of twentieth century.