History of Early Childhood Education : A History

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ISBN: 9780815317944 | 0815317948
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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.

List of Figures

xiii

Preface

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

xix

Abbreviations

xxiii

Part I: The Beginnings of Early Childhood Education

(168)

Antiquity

(26)

Ancient Greece

(1)

Sparta (600 B.C.)

(1)

Education of Boys

(1)

Classical Athens (Fifth--Fourth Century B.C.)

(9)

Rome (1000 B.C.--A.D. 476)

(8)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Comment

(1)

Notes

(5)

European Roots

(40)

Introduction: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

(6)

Jan Amos Komensky (1592--1670) (Bohemia)

(11)

The Seventeenth Century in England

(1)

John Locke (1632--1704) (England)

(4)

British Infant Schools

(1)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712--1778) (France)

(3)

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746--1827) (Switzerland)

(9)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Notes

(6)

The Industrial Revolution (1700--1850)

(16)

Robert Owen (1771--1858)

(11)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Notes

(4)

Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel (1782--1852)

(32)

Froebel's Childhood and Youth (1782--1797)

(1)

Preparation for Life and a Profession (1797--1816)

(3)

Teacher and Educational Reformer: The Keilhau Years (1816--1836)

(3)

Froebel's Philosophy

(4)

The Switzerland Years

(1)

Founder of the Kindergarten (1836--1848)

(1)

Development and Expansion of the Kindergarten

(1)

Women as Teachers

(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 States

169

(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 Populations

461

(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 Conclusions

593

(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 Schools

631

(2)

Appendix 2: Materials and Equipment

633

(4)

Appendix 3: The Children's Charter

637

(2)

Appendix 4: Chronology of Educational Pioneers and Their Countries/States

639

(2)

Index

641

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