Full Description
This accessible text provides an international study of critical educational leaders who established the foundation for Early Childhood Education across continents in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It places each pioneer within the time and culture in which they lived to help the reader understand how theories and knowledge about early years education and care have evolved over time.
Early Years Pioneers in Context traces key themes such as play, child-initiated learning, working with parents, scaffolding children's learning and the environment, enabling students to reflect on the differences and similarities between the pioneers and understand their contribution to practice today. Pioneers covered include:
Frederick Froebel
Elizabeth Peabody
Susan Blow
Rudolf Steiner
Margaret McMillan
Maria Montessori
Susan Isaacs
Loris Malaguzzi
Featuring student integration tasks to help the reader link key ideas to their own practice, this will be essential reading for early years students on undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses.
Contents
1. An Introduction to Early Years Pioneers in Context 2. Early Years Pioneers: In the Beginning 3. Frederick Froebel and the "Garden of Children" 4. Elizabeth Peabody (1804-1894): Implementing Froebel's Play Based Learning 5. Susan Blow, Funding Kindergartens and Training Professionals for American Kindergartens in Public Education: (1843-1916) 6. Rudolf Steiner: The Anthrosophical Approach 7. Margaret McMillan: The Original 'Liberatory Pedagogue' 8. Maria Montessori: Scientific Pedagogy 9. Susan Isaacs: A Message in a Bottle 10. Loris Malaguzzi: Liberatory Pedagogy for Democracy
