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Josefina Passadori (5 April 1900 – 13 December 1987) was an Italian-Argentine academic, educator, and writer. She published several textbooks as well as poetry under the pen name Fröken Thelma.[1]
Biography
[edit]Passadori was born in Mezzanino, Pavia, Italy, in 1900.[2]
In 1922, she graduated from La Unidad Académica Escuela Normal Superior N° 1 Mary O. Graham in La Plata, where she taught for almost forty years.[3] She was responsible for teaching subjects such as Spanish, Italian, Ancient History, American Geography, Argentine Geography, American Literature, Argentine Literature, and Argentine Culture.[4][1][5][6]
She also worked for other schools, such as Escuela Normal Superior María Inmaculada in La Plata; Escuela Nº 18 del Consejo Escolar Nº14 in Buenos Aires; School of Journalism of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata; and the Universidad Popular Sarmiento, for which she was the President for several years.[7][1]
At the age of twenty, she founded the first Latin American school cooperative, of which she was also the first president. She headed many other cultural institutions, including the Arts Society;[1] she served as Education Undersecretary in the province of Buenos Aires.[7][1][8]
In 1930, she was one of the survivors of the MV Monte Cervantes shipwreck, which ran aground near the Les Éclaireurs Lighthouse in Tierra del Fuego.[2][5]
Passadori published hundreds of articles in El Argentino, El Día, and Revista del Suboficial; gave conferences; and sponsored the "Ediciones del Bosque", an organization which promoted and published intellectuals in Buenos Aires, including Raúl Amaral, María Dhialma Tiberti, and María de Villarino, among others. As an author of educational geography texts, she published more than 30 books, some in collaboration with other writers, exclusively under the Editorial Kapelusz imprint. Among her most notable works is the renowned Manual del Alumno, which was used for generations in Argentine primary schools.[4][9]
Passadori died in San Isidro, Argentina, on 13 December 1987, aged 87.[2]
Works
[edit]- Elementos de geografía (1958)[10]
- El universo y los países (1941)[11]
- Geografía de América (1938)
- Geografía General y de Asia y Africa (1945)[12]
- El Continente Americano (1939)[13]
- El Mundo Actual (1955)[14]
- El Universo y la Argentina (1939)[14]
- Argentina (1939)
- Manual de Geografía Americana (1961)[15][16]
- Nociones de Geografía Astronómica, General, y de Asia y Africa (1949)[17]
- El territorio Argentino (1952)[18]
- Geografía Universal (1944)[14]
- Geografía Americana (1944)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 Escat, Julieta (7 July 2021). "Josefina Passadori, la educadora argentina que escribió el "Manual del Alumno Bonaerense"". Billiken. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- 1 2 3 Delaiti, Fernando (1 March 2024). "Josefina Passadori, la ítalo platense que marcó la educación de los bonaerenses". Agencia DIB (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 March 2025.
- ↑ Fiebelkorn, Ayelén (20 March 2025). Senderos culturales: Bibliotecas populares y sociabilidades en la capital bonaerense (1882-1950) (in Spanish). Eduvim. ISBN 978-987-699-887-1.
- 1 2 infocielo, Redacción (13 December 2022). "La historia de Josefina Passadori, creadora del Manual del Alumno Bonaerense". Infocielo (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 March 2025.
- 1 2 Iparraguirre, Soledad (15 September 2022). Delía: Bastión de la resistencia. Marea Editorial. ISBN 978-987-8303-93-2.
- ↑ Conference, Unesco General (1948). Records of the General Conference.
- 1 2 "Josefina Passadori, la ítalo platense que marcó la educación de los bonaerenses". www.diarioeltiempo.com.ar. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ↑ Verdevoye, Paul (1 January 1963). Sarmiento: Éducateur et publiciste (in French). FeniXX. ISBN 978-2-307-49146-0.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ↑ Brizuela, Gabriel Eduardo (2001). Viajes por Europa, Africa y América: su significado en la evolución del pensamiento político de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (in Spanish). effha. ISBN 978-950-605-256-0.
- ↑ Passadori, Josefina (1958). Elementos de geografía: geografía astronómica, geografía física, geografía biológica, geografía humana y económica los continentes y los países (in Spanish). Ed. Kapelusz.
- ↑ Passadori, Josefina (1938). El universo y los paises: Sexto grado. Texto adaptado a los nuevos programas de las escuelas comunes dependientes del Consejo nacional de educación y de los cursos de aplicación anexos a las normales (in Spanish). Editorial A. Kapelusz & cía.
- ↑ Passadori, Josefina (1945). Geografia general y de Asia y Africa. Kapelusz.
- ↑ Amazon website, The American Continent
- 1 2 3 ABE Books, Josefina Passadori
- ↑ Passadori, Josefina (1961). Manual de Geografía Americana (in Spanish). Ed. Kapelusz.
- ↑ Passadori, Josefina (1946). Manual de geografía americana (in Spanish). Kapelusz.
- ↑ Passadori, Josefina (1949). Nociones de geografía: astronómica, general, Asia, África (in Spanish). Editorial Kapelusz.
- ↑ Passadori, Josefina (1952). El territorio argentino (in Spanish). Kapelusz.
Sources
[edit]- Diccionario biográfico, C Signo Editorial Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1954, p. 292
- Sosa de Newton, Lily, Diccionario biográfico de mujeres argentinas, Editorial Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1980, p. 344
External links
[edit]UNESCO website, e-copy of Geografía General y de Asia y África
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- 1900 births
- 1987 deaths
- Argentine people of Italian descent
- Italian emigrants to Argentina
- Italian expatriates in Argentina
- Naturalized citizens of Argentina
- Argentine educators
- 20th-century Italian women educators
- 20th-century Italian educators
- People from La Plata
- 20th-century Argentine women writers
- 20th-century Argentine writers
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- 20th-century pseudonymous women writers
- 20th-century Argentine women educators
- 20th-century Argentine educators