ABSTRACT

Educational games are characteristic of the Decroly method. In fact, Decroly’s first book for educators (1914) is dedicated to them. However, the generality of publications on this method do not pay attention to them: they are cited, but their use is not described. However, Decroly’s games were influencing the teaching of mathematics in the first educational levels. This work aims to identify and characterise Decroly’s games with mathematical content and to study a channel for their diffusion: the catalogues of school supplies published in Spain between 1920 and 1936. The collection at the Centre for Studies on Educational Memory (CEME) of the University of Murcia was used, and eleven catalogues of school material were analysed. In five of these catalogues Decroly’s games are offered, all of them in the republican period (1931–1936). The commercial house that offered these games was studied. The catalogues offered games developed by different authors, making possible to characterise Decrolyan games: the use of elements that the child finds in his environment and the relationship with topics specific to the centres of interest are specific aspects of Decroly’s games and show respect for the Decroly school motto, “the school for life, through life ”

摘要

教育游戏是Decroly 方法的特征。事实上，Decroly 为教育工作者编写的第一本书（1914 年）就是专门为他们而写的。然而，关于这种方法的出版物的普遍性并没有关注它们：它们被引用了，但它们的用途没有描述。然而，Decroly 的游戏正在影响初级教育阶段的数学教学。这项工作旨在用数学内容识别和描述 Decroly 的游戏，并研究它们的传播渠道：1920 年至 1936 年间在西班牙出版的学校用品目录。 大学教育记忆研究中心 (CEME) 的收藏使用了穆尔西亚，并分析了 11 个学校教材目录。在其中五个目录中提供了 Decroly 的游戏，它们都在共和时期（1931-1936 年）。研究了提供这些游戏的商品房。目录提供了由不同作者开发的游戏，使描述 Decroly 游戏的特征成为可能：孩子在他的环境中发现的元素的使用以及与特定于兴趣中心的主题的关系是 Decroly 游戏的特定方面，并表现出对 Decroly 的尊重校训，“生命的学校，通过生命”