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- de Lima, Agnes Abinun
(05 August 1887–27 November 1974)
James M. Wallace
https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0901075
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de Lima, Agnes Abinun (05 August 1887–27 November 1974), progressive journalist, publicist, and educator, was born in Holywood, New Jersey, the daughter of Elias S. Abinun de Lima, a partner in D. A. de Lima and Sons, a banking firm, and Esther Abinun de Lima. Her parents were from Curacao. De Lima was raised in an upper-class home in New York City and Larchmont Manor, New York, and was taught by tutors and music teachers....
- Agnes de Lima
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Agnes de Lima (1887–1974) was an American journalist and writer on education.
Life
Agnes de Lima was born in Holywood, New Jersey, in 1887. She grew up in Larchmont, New York, and New York City. Her family was a successful banking family with conservative values.
In 1904 de Lima entered Vassar College, a liberal arts school, and majored in English. It was here where she became aware of the liberal reformist thinking of the Progressive Era. While in Vassar, she drifted away from her family’s conservative values and became active in many reform movements such as education and feminism.
After graduating, she worked as a writer for the Russell Sage Foundation and the Bureau of Municipal Research. She also continued her education and received a master's degree from the New York School of Social Work in 1912.
In 1918, de Lima became the lead writer on education for The New Republic and Nation journal. She wrote many articles on Progressive education. In 1924 she collected these articles into a book titled Our Enemy the Child. This book described the Progressive classroom and has since been cited by many scholars in educational history.
De Lima continued to collaborate with Progressive schools and their teachers and publish more books. In 1939 she produced A School for the World of Tomorrow, Democracy’s High School in 1941, South of the Rio Grande: An Experiment in International Understanding in 1942, and The Little Red Schoolhouse in 1942.
De Lima took the position of director of public relations for the New School for Social Research in New York City from 1940 to 1960. She retired in 1960 and lived in Greenwich Village until her death in 1974.
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Agnes De Lima (1887–1974)
Journalist, educator, and activist, Agnes de Lima wrote significant books and articles about Progressive education. She was born in Holywood, New Jersey, and grew up in Larchmont, New York, and New York City in a prosperous, conservative banking family that had emigrated from Curacao. De Lima attended private school and entered Vassar College in 1904 at the age of seventeen. At Vassar, de Lima received an excellent liberal education and majored in English. Through such teachers as feminist Lucy Salmon she encountered some of the liberal reformist thinking of the Progressive period. She worked with the College Settlement Association and was active in a campus organization that tried to improve the pay and working conditions of college maids. Her Vassar experience led her away from her family's conservative values, and she became active in socialist, feminist, labor, educational, and other reform movements.
After graduating from Vassar in 1908, de Lima moved to New York City, where she lived in a settlement house and worked as a writer for the Russell Sage Foundation and the Bureau of Municipal Research. She continued her education at the New York School of Social Work from which she received a master's degree in 1912. In 1917 there was a major political struggle over the efforts of reformist mayor John Mitchel to begin a "platoon school" innovation in New York City. In these schools students moved through a variety of workshops, assemblies, and libraries in platoons or groups, rather than remaining in one classroom. Willard Wirt, who had created a platoon system in Gary, Indiana, was hired to develop the program in New York. De Lima worked with Randolph Bourne and other young activists to promote the innovation, which was dropped in 1918 after voters rejected the reformist mayor.
These activities led to de Lima's more intense involvement with education and liberal journalism. Randolph Bourne had been the major education writer for the New Republic after the founding of that journal in 1914. Following his death in 1918, de Lima became the leading writer on education both for that journal and for the Nation, the other influential liberal periodical. She wrote for these journals a series of articles on Progressive education, which she then collected into a 1924 book titled Our Enemy the Child. This was one of the earliest books to describe and interpret what was actually happening in Progressive classrooms, and it has since been widely cited by scholars in educational history. It was the first study to identify clearly the three figures of Progressive education that Lawrence Cremin, in his influential 1960s book The Transformation of the School, labeled "scientists, sentimentalists, and radicals." De Lima's parallel groups were the "technicians," who focused on testing and methods; the "child-centered" educators; and the "visionaries," who hoped to reform society through the schools. De Lima was particularly supportive of the child-centered educators, believing that the best learning began with the needs and interests of children. She was most critical of the behaviorist "technicians" whom she described as "socializers, habit makers, and standardizers." As a socially concerned reformer, she encouraged the extension of successful Progressive experiments from private to public schools.
De Lima's brief marriage to Arthur McFarlane in the 1920s ended in divorce. During the 1930s de Lima continued her career as an education writer, publishing articles and reviews in the Nation, the New Republic, Progressive Education, the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and other periodicals. She also wrote publicity materials for Progressive schools, including the Lincoln School and the Bank Street School.
De Lima's own teaching career was brief, but the experience of running her own small Progressive school helped her to understand and write about education and related social issues from the perspective of teachers. De Lima worked effectively with Progressive school faculties to help them report on and evaluate their work. She and the elementary teachers of the Lincoln School produced A School for the World of Tomorrow in 1939. With the secondary faculty of the same school two years later she wrote Democracy's High School. In 1942, with the same group of high school teachers, she published South of the Rio Grande: An Experiment in International Understanding. That same year she published The Little Red Schoolhouse, written in collaboration with the faculty of the school by that name. John Dewey, the leading figure in Progressive education, wrote an enthusiastic introduction to the book.
From 1940 to 1960, de Lima was director of public relations for the New School for Social Research in New York City. The New School, led by economist Alvin Johnson, was one of America's leading Progressive experiments in higher education, and de Lima contributed to its success and reputation by publicizing its innovative programs and activities. De Lima retired from the New School in 1960 and lived quietly in Greenwich Village until her death in 1974. De Lima is remembered chiefly for her role in describing and interpreting Progressive education and for promoting it as an essential element in broader movements of social and political reform.
- Agnes De Lima
NACIMIENTO 1887 New Jersey, USA
DEFUNCIÓN 27 Nov 1974 Greenwich Village, New York County, New York, USA
SEPULTURA Detalles de la sepultura desconocidos
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1887 - 1974 (87 años)
Elias de Salomoh Abinun de Lima y Senior 
3x , n. 7 Ago 1862, Curacao, Antillas Holandesas 
1834 - 1898 (63 años)
