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

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.
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Summary: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 new form of education. Over the course of three generations they created one of the most successful transnational women's movements of the nineteenth century. In this book, Ann Taylor Allen presents the first transnational history of the kindergarten as it developed in both Germany and America between.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0190274425
9780190274429
9780190274443
0190274441