The 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. At first,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197520944
• ISBN13: 9780197520949
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"