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History of Early Childhood Education : A History

ISBN: 9780815317944 | 0815317948
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 4/6/2000

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SummaryTable of Contents
This book of original research presents a thorough and elegant description of the history of early childhood education in the United States. It is a concise compendium of historical literature, combining history with the prominent and influential theoretical background of the time as it is filtered down to us.
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List of Figures
xiii
Prefacexv
Acknowledgmentsxvii
Introductionxix
Abbreviationsxxiii
Part I: The Beginnings of Early Childhood Education1(168)
Antiquity
3(26)
Ancient Greece
3(1)
Sparta (600 B.C.)
4(1)
Education of Boys
5(1)
Classical Athens (Fifth--Fourth Century B.C.)
6(9)
Rome (1000 B.C.--A.D. 476)
15(8)
Chapter Summary
23(1)
Comment
24(1)
Notes
24(5)
European Roots
29(40)
Introduction: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
29(6)
Jan Amos Komensky (1592--1670) (Bohemia)
35(11)
The Seventeenth Century in England
46(1)
John Locke (1632--1704) (England)
46(4)
British Infant Schools
50(1)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712--1778) (France)
50(3)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746--1827) (Switzerland)
53(9)
Chapter Summary
62(1)
Notes
63(6)
The Industrial Revolution (1700--1850)
69(16)
Robert Owen (1771--1858)
70(11)
Chapter Summary
81(1)
Notes
81(4)
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel (1782--1852)
85(32)
Froebel's Childhood and Youth (1782--1797)
86(1)
Preparation for Life and a Profession (1797--1816)
87(3)
Teacher and Educational Reformer: The Keilhau Years (1816--1836)
90(3)
Froebel's Philosophy
93(4)
The Switzerland Years
97(1)
Founder of the Kindergarten (1836--1848)
97(1)
Development and Expansion of the Kindergarten
98(1)
Women as Teachers
99(1)
Materials and Curriculum: Gifts and Occupations
100(4)
Mutter-und Kose-Lieder
104(1)
Frobel's Later Years at Liebenstein (1849--1852)
105(4)
Froebelian Literature
109(1)
Chapter Summary
109(1)
Comment
110(1)
Notes
110(7)
Post--Industrial Revolution (1860--1980)
117(26)
Grace Owen (1873--1965)
117(2)
Margaret McMillan (1860--1931) and Rachel McMillan (1859--1917)
119(5)
Jean Piaget (1896--1980)
124(12)
Chapter Summary
136(1)
Notes
137(6)
Maria Montessori (1870--1952)
143(26)
Biographical Portrait
143(3)
Educational Thought and Writings
146(1)
How Children Were Treated (During the First Half of the 1900s)
147(1)
Dr. Monntessori's View of Children and Their Importance
147(1)
The Stages of Development of the Child According to Maria Montessori
148(4)
Similarities and Differences between Children and Adults
152(1)
Work and Play as Defined by Maria Montessori
152(2)
The Aims and Goals of Education
154(1)
Principles of Learning and Instruction
154(1)
The Educational Environment--The Children's House (Casa dei Bambini)
154(1)
Structure and Freedom in the Use of Materials
155(1)
The Directress/Director and the Teacher's Role
156(1)
Montessori Teacher Training
157(2)
Montessori Publications
159(1)
Objective and Evaluative Research
159(1)
Comparisons with Froebelian Theory
159(1)
Comparisons with the Psychoanalytic Approach
160(1)
Comparisons with Progressive Theory and the Work of Dewey
161(1)
Comparisons with the ``Open Classroom''
161(1)
Comparisons with Constructivist and Piagetian Theory
161(1)
Work for Peace
162(2)
Chapter Summary
164(1)
Notes
164(5)
Part II: Early Education in the United States169(292)
European Settlement
171(20)
Who Were the Colonists?
172(1)
The Colonial Period in New England (1620--1776)
172(16)
Chapter Summary
188(1)
Notes
188(3)
American Educational Reformers
191(44)
Horace Mann (1796--1859)
191(9)
William Torrey Harris (1835--1909)
200(3)
Granville Stanley Hall (1844--1924)
203(6)
Willliam Heard Kilpatrick (1871--1965)
209(3)
Eudora (1835--1904) and William Nicholas Hailmann (1836--1920)
212(3)
The Progressive Movement
215(1)
John Dewey (1859--1952)
215(4)
The Dewey School: The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago (1896--1903)
219(6)
Chapter Summary
225(1)
Notes
225(10)
The Kindergarten Movement
235(60)
American Beginnings
235(2)
Maria Boelte (1836--1918)
237(2)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804--1894)
239(4)
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (1806--1887)
243(1)
The Kindergarten in the St. Louis Public Schools (1872--1880)
244(1)
Susan E. Blow (1843--1916)
245(1)
Kindergarten and the Centennial Exposition
246(1)
The Role of Toy Manufacturers and Publishers
247(1)
Free or Charity Kindergartens (1873--1893)
248(2)
Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856--1923)
250(1)
Kindergarten in the Public Schools (1880--1930)
250(2)
Henry Barnard (1811--1900)
252(3)
Section Summary
255(1)
Kindergarten in the Midwestern States
255(3)
Kindergarten in the Western States
258(2)
Patty Smith Hill (1868--1946)
260(9)
Alice B. Temple (1866--1946)
269(3)
The Training of Kindergarten Teachers
272(11)
Section Summary
283(1)
Notes
283(12)
The Nursery School Movement
295(64)
Caroline Pratt (1867--1954)
297(2)
The Bureau of Educational Experiments (1916)
299(1)
Harriet Merrill Johnson (1867--1934)
300(2)
Little Red Schoolhouse (1929)
302(1)
Margaret Naumburg (1890--1983)
303(3)
Creative Arts in the Experimental Nursery Schools
306(1)
Parent Cooperative Preschools in the United States (1915, 1916)
307(3)
Bird T. Baldwin (1875--1928)
310(3)
Land-Grant Colleges/Home Economics
313(1)
The Nursery School of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames (1924)
314(2)
Edna Noble White (1879--1954)
316(2)
The Merrill-Palmer Nursery School (1921)
318(4)
Arnold Lucius Gesell (1880--1961)
322(3)
The Guidance Nursery of the Yale Psycho-Clinic (1926)
325(4)
Lawrence Kelso Frank (1890--1968)
329(3)
Abigail Adams Eliot (1892--1992)
332(5)
The Ruggles Street Nursery School and Training Centre of Boston (1922--1952)
337(2)
James L. Hymes, Jr. (1913--1998)
339(2)
Training of Nursery School Teachers
341(6)
Notes
347(12)
Day Nurseries to Day Care to Child Care to Quality 2000
359(18)
Historical Context: The 1800s
360(2)
Historical Context: 1900--1950s
362(1)
Types of Day Nurseries
362(3)
Historical Context: 1960s--1990s
365(2)
Guidelines, Regulations, Standards, and Licensing
367(1)
Federal Actions
368(1)
For-Profit Child Care
369(1)
Training of Personnel
370(3)
Notes
373(4)
Federal Government Involvement (1900--1950)
377(24)
White House Conferences on Children and Youth (1909--1970)
377(3)
The Emergency Nursery Schools (1933--1943)
380(11)
Lanham Act Child Care Centers (1943--1946)
391(3)
The Kaiser Child Service Centers
394(1)
Chapter Summary
395(1)
Notes
396(5)
Federal Government Involvement in the 1960s and Beyond
401(60)
Head Start
401(6)
Edward Frank Zigler (1930-- )
407(2)
Donald (Keith) Osborn (1927--1994)
409(1)
The Beginnings of Head Start: Examples from the 1960s
410(11)
Carol Brunson Phillips Day (1947-- )
421(2)
Project Follow-Through
423(4)
Parent and Child Centers
427(15)
Special Education
442(5)
Chapter Summary
447(1)
Notes
448(13)
Part III: Diverse Populations461(132)
Native Americans
463(28)
Native American Traditional Child Rearing
463(5)
Education after Contact with the Europeans
468(13)
Sarah Winnemucca (1844--1891)
481(5)
Chapter Summary
486(1)
Notes
486(5)
Black Americans
491(30)
America's Peculiar Institution
492(1)
The Slave Quarter
492(1)
The Black Family in the Slave Quarter
493(2)
Child Rearing in the Slave Quarter
495(4)
Religion
499(1)
Education
500(4)
Frederick Douglass (1817--1895)
504(5)
Booker T. Washington (1856--1915)
509(2)
Black Women's Clubs
511(1)
Mary Church Terrell (1863--1954)
512(1)
Josephine Silone Yates (1859--1912)
513(3)
Chapter Summary
516(1)
Notes
517(4)
Asian-Americans
521(18)
Chinese
521(4)
Japanese
525(6)
Filipinos
531(1)
Ethnic Groups Coming from South Asia after World War II
531(3)
Chapter Summary
534(1)
Notes
535(4)
Hispanic-Americans
539(12)
Mexican-Americans
539(4)
Puerto Ricans
543(3)
Teacher Education
546(1)
Chapter Summary
547(1)
Notes
547(4)
Bilingualism
551(16)
The Renaissance of Bilingual Education
551(1)
Languages of the United States
552(3)
The Twentieth Century
555(2)
Enactment of Federal Legislation Mandating Bilingual Education
557(1)
Definitions of Bilingualism
558(1)
Types of Bilingual Education Programs
559(1)
The Rationale for Bilingual Instruction in Early Childhood
559(4)
Chapter Summary
563(1)
Notes
563(4)
Recent Influences from Overseas (Twentieth Century)
567(26)
Israel
567(12)
England (Open Education)
579(7)
Chapter Summary
586(1)
Notes
586(7)
Part IV: Professional Organizations and Conclusions593(38)
Professional Organizations and Their Programs
595(26)
Association for Childhood Education International
595(3)
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
598(11)
Evangeline Howlett Ward (1920-1985)
609(3)
World Organization for Early Childhood Education (Organisation Mondiale pour l'Education Prescolaire) (OMEP)
612(2)
Notes
614(7)
Conclusions
621(10)
The Importance of Children
621(1)
The Care and Education of Children: Parental Teacher Role
622(1)
Differentiation between Children and Adults
623(1)
Importance of Play
623(1)
Aim, Goal, and Purpose of Education
624(1)
Diversity
624(2)
Content Taught and Classroom Organization
626(1)
Professional Development of Teachers
627(1)
Trends
628(1)
The Long View Back
629(1)
Note
629(2)
Appendix 1: Daily Schedules of Nursery Schools631(2)
Appendix 2: Materials and Equipment633(4)
Appendix 3: The Children's Charter637(2)
Appendix 4: Chronology of Educational Pioneers and Their Countries/States639(2)
Index641


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