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The transatlantic Kindergarten : education and women's movements in Germany and the United States / Ann Taylor Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Ann Taylor, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kindergarten--Germany--History.
- Kindergarten.
- Kindergarten--United States--History.
- History.
- Germany.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 292 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Introduction: an entangled history
- Pestalozzi, Fröbel, and the origins of the kindergarten
- Growth and transplantation: the kindergarten in Germany and America, 1848-1870s
- The kindergarten in the city and the world
- Who is the child? science and pedagogy
- School or day-care center? patterns of institutionalization
- The perfect development of womanliness: the making of a kindergartener
- The German-American relationship and its end, 1880s-1920s
- Conclusion: an unfinished agenda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190274412
- 0190274417
- OCLC:
- 952855365
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