The Transatlantic Kindergarten
Education and Womens Movements in Germany and the United States
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 September 2020
- ISBN 9780197520949
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 155x231x17 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 illus. 39
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Short description:
The kindergarten, which offered an innovative approach to early childhood education, was invented in the German-speaking world and arrived in the United States along with German political exiles in the 1850s. In both the United States and Germany, activist women worked to develop and promote this new form of education. Over the course of three generations they created one of the most successful transnational women's movements of the nineteenth century. In this book, Ann Taylor Allen presents the first transnational history of the kindergarten as it developed in both Germany and America between 1840 and 1919.
MoreLong description:
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, however, Germany proved an inhospitable environment for this new institution. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions, several German governments banned the kindergarten as a hotbed of subversion because of its links to women's rights movements. German revolutionaries who were forced into exile introduced the kindergarten to the United States, where it soon found roots among native-born as well as immigrant educators.
In an era when convention limited middle-class women to the domestic sphere, the kindergarten provided them with a rare opportunity not only for professional work, but also for involvement in social reform in the fields of education and child welfare. Through three generations, American and German women established many kinds of contacts
In this elegant book, Ann Taylor Allen presents the first transnational history of the kindergarten as it developed in Germany and the United States between 1840 and World War I. Based on a large body of previously untapped sources in bothcountries, The Transatlantic Kindergarten shows how a common body of ideas and practices adapted over time to two very different political and social environments. Since the end of the First World War, early childhood education in the United States and Germany has followed the patterns laid down in the nineteenth century. However, as Allen's nuanced analysis suggests, the provision of public preschool education is still an unfinished and much discussed project on both sides of the Atlantic.
Allen's ability to generate these lafger questions demonstrates the effectiveness of her work. By weaving together multiple ideological, pedagogical, and institutional threads into a single transnational narrative, Allen provides a model comparative history that deepens scholarly understanding of how different social and cultural environments overlapped to create the kindergarten. Her work makes a significant contribuition to the fields of women's reform movements, early childhood education, and international history. This book therefore serves as an invaluable refrence for scholars, students, and educators who desire to understand the transatlantic origins of the kindergarten and feminist movements.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: An Entangled History
Chapter 1: Pestalozzi, Fr--bel, and the Origins of the Kindergarten
Chapter 2: Growth and Transplantation: The Kindergarten in Germany and America, 1848-1870s
Chapter 3: The Kindergarten in the City and the World
Chapter 4: Who Is the Child? Science and Pedagogy
Chapter 5: School or Day-Care Center? Patterns of Institutionalization
Chapter 6: "The Perfect Development of Womanliness": The Making of a Kindergartener
Chapter 7: The German-American Relationship and Its End, 1880s-1920s
Conclusion: An Unfinished Agenda
Notes
Bibliography
