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A HISTORY OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND
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| By: |
Larry Prochner |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£87.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0774816597 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774816595 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 June, 2009 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
This book explores the history of kindergartens and infant schools in three settler colonies, revealing how discourses and developments in the past have shaped early childhood education in the present. |
| Synopsis: |
In the early nineteenth century, governments began to developspecialized educational programs - kindergartens and infant ornursery schools - to give children a head start in life. Theseprograms hinged on new visions of childhood that originated in Englandand Europe, but what happened when they were transported to thecolonies?This book unwinds the tangled threads of this history by drawing ona wide range of sources to trace how ideas and developments such asRousseau's "noble savage," Froebel's emphasis onactivity and play, and the Industrial Revolution translated into earlyinfant schools in England, kindergartens in Germany and the UnitedStates, and the emergence of free kindergarten systems in Canada,Australia, and New Zealand. It reveals how these three similar butdistinct colonies developed early education systems that maintained theintegrity of the ideas that inspired them but adapted them to suitlocal ideas, politics, and indigenous and immigrant populations.This unique account of early childhood education in comparativeperspective shows how discourses and developments in the past haveshaped the way we educate our children in the present. It will appealto teachers, researchers, historians, and policy-makers who seek freshinsight into how to reconcile educational theory and practice in anincreasingly global world. |
| Illustrations: |
17 b&w photos, 5 tables |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of British Columbia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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