Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children

by Hamilton Cravens

Book Overview

Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start, Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective of the field's best-known research center, the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. Addressing the changing role played by women and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080782092X
• ISBN13: 9780807820926
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"