{"product_id":"childs-garden-the-kindergarten-movement-form-froebel-to-dewey-9780271003504","title":"Child's Garden: The Kindergarten Movement form Froebel to Dewey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive account of the roots of the kindergarten movement in the United States  this book restores the Froebelians to their rightful place as pioneers of early childhood education. Although overshadowed by the followers of Dewey and Thorndike  the followers of Froebel played a key role in the dramatic struggle for control of the public schools  as the author shows  especially in urban settings. Drawing upon widely scattered archivesmany previously untappedDr. Shapiro introduces unrecognized participants in turn-of-the-century educational reform  together with familiar figures. The work of Bronson Alcott  William Torrey Harris  G. Stanley Hall  Jane Addams  and John Dewey is presented in fresh perspective and then new insight on the impact of Freudianism in America. Among the attractive figures introduced in cameo portraits are Elizabeth Peabody  Susan Blow  Sarah Cooper  and Kate Douglas Wiggin. Due attention is given to the Forty-Eighters who joined established German communities in the new world: kindergarten advocates such as Carl and Margarethe Schurz  William Douglas Hailmann and John Kraus  Matilda Kriege and Maria Boelte  and the St. Louis Hegelians. The kindergarten movement has been a part of the reformist tide sweeping over America since the mid-19th century and has been caught in its crosscurrents. The child-rearing notions of German Romanticism reinforced the New England Transcendentalist conviction of human perfectability  which gradually during the three generations between the Age of Jackson and the Progressive Erasurpassed evangelical Protestantism as the dominant ethos of American society. Diversity being an inherent quality of reform movements  kindergartners often have been at odds among themselves and with other reformers. Although by 1918 the Froebelian emphasis on spontaneity in education and learning through play had largely been supplanted by doctrines of discipline and social control  this books epilogue shows how the ideals of the early kindergarten movement are still relevant for students of social and cultural history  developmental psychology  and early childhood education.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276470378549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0271003502","price":240.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780271003504.jpg?v=1780553000","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/childs-garden-the-kindergarten-movement-form-froebel-to-dewey-9780271003504","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}