| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 146 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge library editions. History of education ; 39
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Routledge library editions. History of education ; 39.
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| Note |
Originally published: 1972. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146). |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Preface; Part One : The Nineteenth Century; 1 Industrialization and philanthropy: 1800-40; Child labour; Monitorial schools; Dame schools; An infant school movement; New Lanark Infant School; Infant school societies; Samuel Wilderspin; Conflicting aims; 2 Advance and setback: 1836-62; Educational theory; Pestalozzi; The Home and Colonial Infant School Society; The age of steam-power; Babies' classes; The Revised Code; 3 The middle-class kindergarten: 1850-1900; The new middle class; The romantic image. |
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Friedrich FroebelThe kindergarten movement; Kindergarten teachers and governesses; A new attitude; 4 The school board era: 1870-1902; The 1870 Education Act; Under-fives in elementary schools; The need for nurseries; Kindergarten in infant schools; Mass infant education; Part Two: The Twentieth Century; 5 The rise of the nursery school: 1900-39; Social need; Free kindergartens; Maria Montessori; Margaret McMillan; Official policy 1902-29; Susan Isaacs; Middle-class nursery education; The Consultative Committee Report (1933); Campaign for nursery education; Limited expansion 1929-39. |
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6 Progress in infant schools: 1900-39Infant schools under the 1902 Act; 1905 Code and suggestions; The progressive movement; The child-centred infant school; Opposition; The Hadow Reports (1931 and 1933); Separate infant schools; 7 War-time priorities: 1940-4; Mothers and preschool children; The war-time nurseries scheme; Impact on infant schools; Making a post-war policy; The 1944 Education Act; 8 Towards a rationale: 1945-70; Changing social patterns; Nursery education and the 1944 Act; Private nursery education; The playgroup movement; Day nurseries; Infant schools and the 1944 Act. |
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A nursery-infant stageEvidence from research; The teaching revolution; Need for reappraisal; The Plowden scheme; Socio-political factors; Further reading; Bibliography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education, Preschool -- Great Britain -- History.
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Education, Preschool. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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EDUCATION -- Preschool & Kindergarten. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Whitbread, Nanette. Evolution of the nursery-infant school. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007 9780415432894 (DLC) 2008298977 (OCoLC)228437550 |
| ISBN |
9781135030629 (electronic book) |
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1135030626 (electronic book) |
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9780415432894 |
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0415432898 |
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