America's First Women Philosophers: Transplanting Hegel, 1860-1925

by Dorothy Rogers

The American idealist movement started in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858, becoming more influential as women joined and influenced its development. Susan Elizabeth Blow was well known as an educator and pedagogical theorist who founded the first public kindergarten program in America (1873-1884). Anna C. Brackett was a feminist and pedagogical theorist and the first female principal of a secondary school (St. Louis Normal School, 1863-72). Grace C...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826440258
• ISBN13: 9780826440259
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"