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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, Ann Taylor, 1944- (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Kindergarten > Germany > History.
Kindergarten > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.