History of Early Childhood Education : A History

by Hinitz; Blythe F.

• ISBN13: 9780815317944
• ISBN10: 0815317948
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	xix
Abbreviations	xxiii
Part I: The Beginnings of Early Childhood Education	1	(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 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