Transatlantic Kindergarten: Education and Women's Movements in Germany and the United States

by Ann Taylor Allen

The kindergarten--as institution, as educational philosophy, and as social reform movement--is one of Germany's most important contributions to the world. Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and his German student Friedrich Fr�bel, who founded the kindergarten movement around 1840, envisioned kindergartens as places of education and creative engagement for children across all classes, not merely as daycare centers for poor families...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190274417
• ISBN13: 9780190274412
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"