Educator Iva Waisberg Bonow, an (almost) unknown intellectual and educator: her mediation in the project “O Mundo da Criança” collection

Abstract

From the identification of Professor Iva Waisberg Bonow coordinator of the commission for the translation and adaptation of the American work Childcraft (1949) for the editorial project of the collection O Mundo da Criança, launched in Brazil by Editora Delta in the years 1954, 1975 and 1992, this article discusses her importance as an intellectual mediator and educator, still little recognized in the field of History of Education. Professor of Educational Psychology at the Institute of Education of Rio de Janeiro, professor at the Normal School of the Federal District, she was the author of reference works on psychology and education. The investigation into her intellectual and academic itinerary points out how her paths are references to the history of Brazilian education in the 1940s and 1950s. of books for children. Her work as intellectual mediator was crucial to the collection project, and the formulation of an editorial project of great reach in the Brazilian children's book market.