Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present
This comprehensive history describes policies and programs for the education of three-, four-, and five-year-olds in the United States from the colonial era to the present. It also traces efforts to make preschool education a part of the public school system and shows why these efforts have been rejected, despite increasing evidence that preschools are beneficial for all young children.\ Drawing on archival records, alumnae files, interviews, and many other sources, Barbara Beatty provides a...
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This comprehensive history describes policies and programs for the education of three-, four-, and five-year-olds in the United States from the colonial era to the present. It also traces efforts to make preschool education a part of the public school system and shows why these efforts have been rejected, despite increasing evidence that preschools are beneficial for all young children.
PrefaceAcknowledgments1"The School of Infancy": European Origins of the American Preschool Movement12"Too Large an Undertaking for a Few Ladies": The Infant School and the Family School in America203"Come, Let Us Live with Our Children": Friedrich Froebel and the German Kindergarten Movement384"Paradise of Childhood": Early Private and Public Kindergartens in America525Educating "Other Peoples' Children": The Free Kindergarten Movement in America726"The Land of Childhood": The Establishment of Public Kindergartens in America1017"A Place for Children in the Modern World": Private Nursery Schools in the 1910s and 1920s1328Public Preschools169Conclusion201Notes209Index245
