The transatlantic Kindergarten : education and women's movements in Germany and the United States

The transatlantic Kindergarten : education and women's movements in Germany and the United States / Ann Taylor Allen.

The kindergarten, which offered an innovative approach to early childhood education, was invented in the German-speaking world and arrived in the United States along with German political exiles in the 1850s. In both the United States and Germany, activist women worked to develop and promote this ne...

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Main Author: Allen, Ann Taylor, 1944- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Kindergarten > Germany > History.
Kindergarten > United States > History.
EDUCATION > Elementary.
Kindergarten
Germany
United States
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an entangled history
  • Pestalozzi, Fröbel, and the origins of the kindergarten
  • Growth and transplantation: the kindergarten in Germany and America, 1848-1870s
  • The kindergarten in the city and the world
  • Who is the child? science and pedagogy
  • School or day-care center? patterns of institutionalization
  • The perfect development of womanliness: the making of a kindergartener
  • The German-American relationship and its end, 1880s-1920s
  • Conclusion: an unfinished agenda.

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