| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 146 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge library editions. History of education ; 39 |
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Routledge library editions. History of education ; 39.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Preface; Part One : The Nineteenth Century; 1 Industrialization and philanthropy: 1800-40; Child labour; Monitorial schools; Dame schools; An infant school movement; New Lanark Infant School; Infant school societies; Samuel Wilderspin; Conflicting aims; 2 Advance and setback: 1836-62; Educational theory; Pestalozzi; The Home and Colonial Infant School Society; The age of steam-power; Babies' classes; The Revised Code; 3 The middle-class kindergarten: 1850-1900; The new middle class; The romantic image |
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Friedrich FroebelThe kindergarten movement; Kindergarten teachers and governesses; A new attitude; 4 The school board era: 1870-1902; The 1870 Education Act; Under-fives in elementary schools; The need for nurseries; Kindergarten in infant schools; Mass infant education; Part Two: The Twentieth Century; 5 The rise of the nursery school: 1900-39; Social need; Free kindergartens; Maria Montessori; Margaret McMillan; Official policy 1902-29; Susan Isaacs; Middle-class nursery education; The Consultative Committee Report (1933); Campaign for nursery education; Limited expansion 1929-39 |
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6 Progress in infant schools: 1900-39Infant schools under the 1902 Act; 1905 Code and suggestions; The progressive movement; The child-centred infant school; Opposition; The Hadow Reports (1931 and 1933); Separate infant schools; 7 War-time priorities: 1940-4; Mothers and preschool children; The war-time nurseries scheme; Impact on infant schools; Making a post-war policy; The 1944 Education Act; 8 Towards a rationale: 1945-70; Changing social patterns; Nursery education and the 1944 Act; Private nursery education; The playgroup movement; Day nurseries; Infant schools and the 1944 Act |
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A nursery-infant stageEvidence from research; The teaching revolution; Need for reappraisal; The Plowden scheme; Socio-political factors; Further reading; Bibliography |
| Notes |
Originally published: 1972 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Preschool -- Great Britain -- History
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EDUCATION -- Preschool & Kindergarten.
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Education, Preschool
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008298977 |
| ISBN |
9781135030629 |
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1135030626 |
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1135030618 |
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9781135030612 |
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1299147569 |
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9781299147560 |
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