Preschool education in America [electronic resource] : the culture of young children from the colonial era to the present / Barbara Beatty.
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Yale University Press,
©1995.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. "The School of Infancy": European Origins of the American Preschool Movement
- 2. "Too Large an Undertaking for a Few Ladies": The Infant School and the Family School in America
- 3. "Come, Let Us Live with Our Children": Friedrich Froebel and the German Kindergarten Movement
- 4. "Paradise of Childhood": Early Private and Public Kindergartens in America
- 5. Educating "Other Peoples' Children": The Free Kindergarten Movement in America
- 6. "The Land of Childhood": The Establishment of Public Kindergartens in America
- 7. "A Place for Children in the Modern World": Private Nursery Schools in the 1910s and 1920s
- 8. Public Preschools.